W H Smith In Hatch End!
A Memory of Hatch End.
This view shows a branch of Smiths on the corner of Uxbridge Road and Grimsdyke Road on the left of the picture. It was a haven for schoolchildren buying ink for fountain pens and stamp album leaves! I loved to buy bottles of exotic coloured ink for writing my homework. I also bought the Watford Observer to read the football reports on the games at Vicarage Road.
On the opposite side of the main road was Soman Sports toy shop - another haven when shopping for train set accessories! Next to it was GIles record shop.
Hatch End's first supermarket was called Payantake and this was on the right of the picture almost at the end of the terrace of shops.
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