Station Road c1960, Harrow
Station Road c1960, Harrow Ref: H429035
Memories of Station Road c1960, Harrow
Happy Days
Having grown up in Harrow during the 1950s and 60s, how well I remember my trips to Universal Stationers, seen here at the top of Station Road close to its junction with College Road. As a child I was always fascinated with stationery items and this shop stocked everything you needed. Upon entering you would be greeted by an assistant who would gladly climb a ladder to bring down reams of typing paper from the shelves above which reached to ceiling level. On leaving the shop we would form an orderly queue at the nearby bus stop where the 114 and 158 called to take us home to Harrow Weald. Contrast this with the unruly scrum that occurs at Harrow Bus Station in today's society. Note too the absence of parked cars and yellow lines. Happy days indeed.
Universal Stationers
The person who climbed the ladder may well have been me or perhaps my father who owned the shop. I used to help at Christmas to earn some pocket money and loved the book department, where I would fit plastic sleeves to the books. The whole place had a wonderful atmosphere and seemed vast to me (it was later enlarged) and I liked talking to the staff, many of whom had been there for years and who all had such diverse personalities and stories to tell. People were polite to each other in those days. It was rather nice to say "Can I help you Sir or Madam?". Nowadays it's more likely to be "Are you all right there?".
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