Hendon, Brent Street c.1955
Photo ref:
H397046
Photo ref:
H397046
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Memories of Hendon, Brent Street c1955
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I'm trying to trace my earliest memory. It was about 1955, and I was one-year-old when I fell out of my pram in a grocery shop in Hendon. My recollection (this does not come from my mother's accounts of the story) was that the shop was familiar - one of our regular trips. I think you could see St Mary's church from the shop door, which would place it on Church Terrace. I have a picture in my head ...see more
I can add information about the September bombing and suggest that one reason for the low number of casualities was that it was a time bomb that landed on Bell Vue Terrace. Aunt Alice and Daisy lived at number 6 and tell me that they heard the bomb come down but then there was no immediate explosion. They were told to smash all the windows to allow for the blast to go through the ...see more
Does anyone please have any information regarding 2b Uphill Parade please around 1941? If anybody does, please email me @ jcook244@btinternet.com.
Thank you in advance.
Brent Street was a typical suburban or small town high street. There were no really large stores but a selection of individual shops. The range of shops was remarkable with several grocers, bakers, greengrocers, butchers, chemists, fish shops, newsagents and hairdressers. There was a drapers and ladies clothing store, a gentlemen's outfitters, furniture store, hardware shop, shoe shop, electrical ...see more
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