A Childhood Reminiscence
I lived in Edgware from 1941 and, although a young child, I remember the war years vividly, especially collecting shrapnel and the sounds of bombs, anti-aircraft guns and V2 rockets. In 1944 I began school at Edgware Infants/Junior School where the headmaster was Mr. Bird. Some of the teachers were Mrs Harmer who taught music, Mrs Ackroyd, Miss Weinstock and Mr. Rayson. I avoided school lunches, preferring to eat at a British Restaurant in (I think) Edgwareberry Lane.
After school we usually played in the street or Camrose Park and on Saturday mornings I went to the Ritz cinema with hundreds of other children. Sometimes we took a picnic to the top of Brockley Hill or to Stonegrove Park.
Most of our shopping was in Station Road where the shops I best recall were the bakers, Spurriers and Brills; the delicatessen, Adelmans; the dress shop, Stanley Lee; furrier, Myers; and a toy shop, Crestas. Occasionally we dined at the Boulevard Restaurant in Edgwareberry Lane. The bicycle shop, Rex Judd, still exists but deals in motor cycles. At the Basin at Canons Park I fished for frog spawn, newts and sticklebacks.
Friends I still recall include David Driver, Trevor Brockway (?), Alan and Michael Pearce, Kit Richardson, Joan Collet, Valerie Green, Judith Port, Dorothy Lamb, David
Green. If any of them read this, they might like respond.
Brian Wimborne
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