1974 Cranford Byron Avenue To Present

A Memory of Cranford.

I started school at Cranford Infants School 1974, Mr Hill school headmaster. I remember Ms Hickmett, Music Teacher teaching us in one of the huts and running to the school fields up to the river Crane where there was a gate to the entrance to the airport. Colin the school caretaker and his barking dog. The small tesco used to be Leeds Buidling Society & Barclays bank. I remember Henlys roundabout, Heathrow House and Fairey factory. I know a house in Clevedon Gardens still has an air raid shelter. Got my haircuts from the barber (butcher Sam), he always had LBC talk radio on loud & he loved his cigarettes. Used to spend years at Lamdins perfecting the arcade machines with my mates. Gowers was great, used to get screwball ice-cream and cola sweets.