Wembley In The 1950's

A Memory of Egham.

I remember the lovely fresh bread smell from Aldridges the bakery at the Triagle, the Grove Fish and Chip shop's marvellous rock salmon and chips cooked in beef dripping of course, Killips department store's dumb waiter, learning to dance at the Victor Sylvestor dance school above the Odeon cinema, attending 'Boy Meets Girl' dances at Wembley Town Hall on Saturday evenings, lining the street towards the Stadium at FA.cup finals to see the Royal Family, most of which seemed to attend then, Demarco's wonderful ice cream, the indoor market off Ealing Road, attending Oakington Manor primary school, just couple of minutes walk from our Wyld Way home, the lovely tree lined verges, neatly clipped privet hedges and well kept front gardens. Earlier memories still of the horse drawn bread van and rag and bone cart, saving kitchen scraps for putting in the pig bins at the end of the road for the pigs kept at Sherrance Farm on Oakington Manor Drive, and finally getting into trouble for paddling in the River Brent and then crossing the North Circular Road and venturing as far as Stonebridge Park with a daring friend. Happy days!

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