Saint Saviour's School
Does anybody remember going to Saint Saviour's School? If so, do you remember carrying your little chair up to the church hall in The Grove every week for a church service? I think it was on a Wednesday, as our church had been bombed in the war. I remember this because I found a little chair in a junk shop and it brought it all back to me.
My grandparents lived as caretakers of the Welsh chapel on Ealing Green and I remember as a child creeping out the back to look at the Ealing Studios, not really knowing then how famous it was.
My sister married Edward Foley whose family owned several shops in the high street, sadly she died two years ago. I live in Oxford now and only have an aunt living in Hanwell who I visit regularly and often nip to Ealing centre to have a nose around but never see anybody that we used to know.
Doreen Grant, nee Bonnell.
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RE: RE: Saint Saviour's School
Hi Doreen, I went to St Saviour's from 1957 on, we lived in Grove Road. The Church Hall was down the end of the road, and we used to pass our house on the way. When I was sorting through my late father's photos earlier this year I found one of my class on the way to the hall. Our house backed on to the site of the bombed church, when it was being demolished to make way for the new school buildings Dad bought some of the beams to burn in the open fire, some of them still had paintings on them with gold leaf on them! My Uncle Fitz had a barber's shop in the Grove, and three other uncles had a couple of shops in South Ealing. I used the Red Lion opposite the Studios a fair bit when I was over visiting Dad in recent years. Christ Church had a display of photos of the old St Saviour's, earlier this year, I think they are on line too. Nick.
Comment from Nicholas Robey on Friday, 1st January 2010.