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My First Kiss
When I was about nine I spent a year in Harefield Hospital. When I arrived I was put into isolation for two weeks. The treatment included a penicillin injection twice a day. After isolation I was moved into a double room, and then allowed out of bed for two hours a day. This progressed until I was allowed out of bed most of the time. The ward was laid out in a kind of half circle with the office in the middle of the curve. The boys were on the left and the girl to the right of the office. The dinning room come TV room was at the rear of the office. Pictures of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs hung on the walls. To the front of the ward was a grass area and beyond that a school house. These building were joined together with a wall and walk way. I assumed this was there to stop us getting out. I must admit I did... Read more
Whitethorn Morris Dance For Girlguiding at The Willow Tree Activity Centre
The Harrow and Pinner Division of the girl guides organised a huge May Day celebration on 1st May in their new Willow Tree Activity Centre in Breakspear Road North, Harefield.
Their Badger site at Willow Tree was alive to the sights and sounds of Brownies in the Division trying country dancing, maypole dancing, making hobby horses, garlands and dance sticks. Their activities included watching a display by our Whitethorn Morris Dancers. We had huge fun in the middle of their field getting all the girls on their feet to join in a HUGE morris dance! I played my piano accordian in our band and had a steady queue of guides wanting to try out my instrument.
It was quite a tiring event as we been up for hours so that we could dance to greet the May Day dawn at the Red Lion in Coleshill.
125 Brownies and their leaders enjoyed every aspect of their May Day Revels including the visit from the Mayor... Read more
This Was my Home.
My father used to be the Officer in Charge here when it was an old people's home - we used to live in the cottage just before the dovecote. When we lived there Kath and Ian used to live in the Upper Lodge which was directly on the entrance to the road to Breakspear House. I have very few 'photos of Breakspear House as I lived here from the ages of 7 to 13. I have very happy memories of my time there.
Middlesex memories
Unchanged Northwood !
We moved to Northwood in 1978 and the shops in Green Lane were pretty much like this view. Maybe there were yellow lines on the road to stop parking! Just beyond the lorry on the right of the picture was a small department store which I recall had a toy department downstairs - our young son David bought a stuffed toy rabbit there in 1980. He will be 31 next month (February 2008) and I think we still have that rabbit tucked away in a cardboard box for our granddaughter Annalise to play with! Further down the road on the right is Oaklands Gate - a short cul-de-sac leading to the library and the Methodist Church. In the late 1970s the minister here was the Reverend Ernest Goodridge - a kind and caring priest who worked extremely hard and well for the benefit of the 6th Northwood Scout Group in particular. There was a fine community spirit at this time in Northwood but sadly the madly escalating property prices of... Read more
Growing up
I lived in the Northwood Hills area until 1968. My father was a postman at Northwood Post Office in the 1950's (now a restaurant). My grandfather was caretaker of the Oaklands Gate Methodist Church during the late 50's and 60's (William Gilbert). He and my grandmother lived in the flat that was provided with the job. He was hard working and was a stickler to detail and was always ensuring that the church rules were obeyed by persons on the premises. He retired unwillingly in the early seventies going to a retirement flat where he passed away aged 96. Prior to my grandparents living on the premises they lived at 28 Frome Court, Pinner Road, Northwood Hills for many years, and I can remember my younger brother and I used to visit every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday for our teas. On a Friday we would go to the church with him and purchase sweets on the way from a little sweet shop in Green lane, just prior to the station at Northwood. ... Read more
Frederick Cradock
My great grandfather lived at No 7 Maxwell Road in 1911, he was a dairyman and owned a milk shop which according to my great grandmother's diary opened in 1905.
'May to December' TV Series Filming
Does anyone remember the name of the greengrocer's shop in Northwood Hills that was used as a location in the TV series 'May to December'? Also, whereabouts the shop was?
