My Family Church
This was the church I attended with my family as a child from 1950-1966 when I moved away to college. My father is buried at the end of the path up to the entry to the church. The rector for some time was Rev. Cottrell with three children who were about the age of my twin and me. The boys were called Richard and David. Our lives pretty well revolved round the church with sunday Services,Sunday school and church breakfast and the youth group as we got older and scouts and girl guides. The rector lived in a huge cold manse next to the church where we would have the annual summer fete.To get to church we would ride in my fathers Turquoise Vauxhall Velox ( his pride and joy until he got a huge old Humber Super Snipe) or we would walk across Canons Park. We lived in a community near North London Colleigate school opposite the Principal, head mistress Dame Kitty Anderson. My father used to walk to Canons Park Station to get the underground to work off Oxford Street in London. In the evenings in summer we would cross Canons park to meet him and if the sun was setting he would lift me up on his shoulders to see the "fairy Castle" in Stanmore which glowed an opulecent white and he would say it had been built with little children's baby teeth! There was a lake near our home, the Seven Acre Lake where we would spend our summers swimming fishing and playing in boats. Our social life was great as there were so many families living there and the diving board would team with children of all ages from the older teens to little tots learning to swim in the muddy waters. In winter we would test the ice and on odd years we had ice thick enough to skate on. Having left in 1966 I have only once returned and it was wonderful to look at photos and reminise about my childhood which was so free and carefree.
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Have discovered this site with some interest. Awoke many memories!
I grew up in Edgware during the war years. St Lawrence was the church my family attended. I and my siblings were baptised there. My grandparents are buried at St Margarets Church where I was a girl guide. Remember those church parades ? All of us marching down the street! I attended Broadfields Infant School in Broadfields Avenue as I lived in Hillcrest Avenue just around the corner. We used to go to the air raid shelter and sing songs whenever there was a raid! I recall playing on the bombed sites too!! I loved school but hated warm school milk!!
Early memories include shopping in Station road - Brills the baker, Payantake, Sainsburys, the very first supermarket run by the Express Dairy near the station and of course Stanley J Lee, the draper. Went to the Ritz many times and bought sweets at the shop next door. Developed my love of reading at Boots Library upstairs from the chemist!
I finally left the suburb in 1960 after 23 years so it was a big part of my life. My father's family, the Hawleys, first moved there in the twenties when the new estates off Hale Lane were developed. I have been back once or twice. The Almond Tree teashop was still there too. Opposite wher the library once was. Who else shares these memoroes?
My home for many years has been Australia but I can never forget Edgware.
Comment from Angela Hanson on Wednesday, 15th June 2011.