Parish Church c1955, Cowley
Parish Church c1955, Cowley Ref: C581006
Memories of Parish Church c1955, Cowley
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.
Cowley & local memories
Read and share memories of Cowley and Middlesex inspired by Frith photos.
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
