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We All Bumped Our Heads
At sixteen I owned a three wheeler convertible that with a bit of bending of the law sixteen year olds were allowed to drive. Plus the fact that the coppers didn't know how the law stood exactly. The car was a Powerdrive, coming towards you it looked like a sports car, going away it looked and sounded like a motor boat. It had a twin two stroke engine, chain driven and was too heavy. It should have been called the Under Powerdrive, but it looked good for a sixteen year old to be driving anyway. To make it legal for me to drive it, the car had to weigh under 8 cwt. I took every thing I could of the car, like the spare wheel, bumpers and the bench seat. I drove onto the weigh bridge at Brentford with an empty petrol tank, but it was still over 8 cwt. I explained my predicament to the young feller operating the weigh bridge whose boss was at lunch. No problem he... Read more
St Lawrence Cowley
We went to church here, until we moved to Cornwall, Jen and Rob were christened by lovely Norman Chalk and Peter Grimes ran the Sunday School. The kids bought me a watercolour of the church by Emilia Saunders, it hangs in our bedroom.
Memories of Middlesex
Notes From The Frith Files.
The lady walking down the right hand side of the street is Mrs Rose Allcock who lived in Uxbridge nearly all her life.
Windsor Street
We lived in Uxbridge from 1968 when we married to 1993, we still have the book and remember Mrs Peddles shop on LHS, would you believe the old Police Station is now a bar?
The Long Walk Home
I remember going to the Savoy Cinema that you can see on the corner of the High Street and Vine Street. This was about 1953, I was seven and went with my brother who was twelve. I had never been to the pictures without an adult before. I can’t remember the title of the film, but I know it had millions of ants on the move and eating everything in their path. There is a lock keeper who was supposed to open the lock gates to flood the area, but he’s fallen asleep so the ants eat him too... In the fifties this must have been a theme for films like this, for next week we saw the same story but with thousands of elephants on the march.
At this time my family had only recently moved to West Drayton, so the area was new to us. This day my brother and I had come to Uxbridge on the 223 bus which takes you up Falling Lane past the... Read more
Few But Good Memories .
We lived in Uxbridge in the early 1960s. I used to go swiming at the swimming pool behind the college. The college had just been built and we went to St Andrew's COE School. The school was really old and we had a big iron fire-guard round the fire in the clasroom which was divided into two. I remember going to a big store in Uxbridge to see Father Christmas, and a green where witches were meant to be.
Memories of St. Margarets Church
Fond memories of St. Margarets Church in Uxbridge, Middx. My home was Harefield Road , Uxbridge. and we were married by the Rev: Bruce Eadie. He asked us to go to Westminster to obtain a special license because he had never married a foreigner before!! My maiden name was Reynolds. My husband Ray and I were married in November, 1952. Ray was a Sgt. in the USAF. We will be married 58 years this year. St. Marrgarets Church and surrounding area looks the same, brings back lovely memories.My dad was in the RAF stationed at Langley, Bucks during WW , used to ride his bike back and forth. We now live in Washington State, USA. Fond memories of going to the pictures, every Sunday afternoon at the Odeon with friends, Loved The Savoy and Regal too.
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