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Further Afield
Osterley Park became within striking distance of my Hounslow home once I had a bike and from about the age of 12 (1960) would cycle there with a school friend with our bottles of pop and jam sandwiches, to roam the grounds and generally explore. As long as we were home by the time the street lights came on we had the freedom I don't think children of today have. I remember on one of these jaunts on a hot summer day a groundsman catching us with our feet dangling in the lake in the attached picture and he bellowed his warning that we were sure to catch polio and to get our feet out pronto and get home and wash with carbolic soap! Well, we never did get polio and I am not sure we were really at risk (having been inoculated in about 1955) but I think he scared us at the time.
Shop on Junc Hanworth Road Joining Crowell Road.
If I am right, this was a confectionary shop on the junction joining of Hanworth Road and Cromwell Road. Can anyone shed more light on this? What happened to it later?
Not The Town Hall
The premises are not actually the town hall but actually the council house of Heston and Isleworth borough council. Note from the editor: On the British Listed Buildings website it says 'Former Town Hall. Built as the 'Council House' for the Heston and Isleworth Urban District Council.' Can anyone shed further light?
Hounslow Welsh Society
Does anyone remember the Hounslow Welsh Society which used to meet in a room in the grounds of Hounslow Hospital? My surname was Richards then & my Dad was a producer of the amateur dramatics & we also had a choir...I lived on the Great West Road where I was born, went to Springwell School & then to Heston Junior & Senior School, but we left in 1953 to move to North Wales....happy memories of shopping in Hounslow West & Hounslow High Street. I still think of it as my" Home Town" although I left so many years ago.
Black Eyes!
I also remember Hounslow Cottage Hospital very well. I had personal experience of it when I was taken there for a check-up after a minor car accident in about 1950/1 when I smashed my face. They checked I didn't have a broken nose - but I did end up with two lovely black eyes! I went there again as an older child of about 6 or 7 circa 1955 with my fellow classmates from Wellington Junior School to take gifts of fruit to the young in-patients - possibly in connection with Harvest Festival. I lived on the Bath Road, a few doors away from the Windsor Castle Public House from 1950 to 1968. My childhood home was demolished in the 1970s, I believe, and much of the area has changed.
Hounslow As It Was
I am a bit younger than the other contributers being 2 when I moved to Hounslow in 1950. I wasn't born there but regard Hounslow as my home town and well remember the Odeon (Saturday morning pictures) and later learning ballroom dancing in the upper rooms. Food shopping was always done at Hounslow West - walking up from the junction of Bath Road and Sutton Lane/Wellington Road North (where I lived), and remember our first "supermarket" opening - MacFisheries! I used to play in Lampton Park with friends (remember the putting green? - a treat once or twice a year) and generally roam the local streets with impunity. We seemed to have so much more freedom then. School swimming lessons took place in the Hounslow Baths in Trinity Road and I remember the children's library and wanting to be "big enough" to join the adult one. As a teenager still at school, I did Saturday work in the "new" Woolworths and got paid the... Read more
THE ODEON
Every Saturday morning my brother Frank and sister Lorna and I were there for the children's matinee so much fun. We were born during WWII and I remember how close our neighborhood was and the Odeon was part of it. When I got a little older I used to go to the dances held in the room on top of the Odeon. What beautiful memories it has for me. We lived on Broad Walk not far from All Saints Church where the bomb shelter was. My mother passed away in 2000 and I travelled from America to England to say my goodbyes to her and saw that now the Odeon was a grocery store. Something clicked in my memory and I thought that it also was once a bowling lanes but maybe I'm wrong. I noticed a memory from a person that lived on Beavers Lane, I think that is were my dear friend and bridesmaid Sandra lives. Jennifer Ponsford Bibb
OSTERLEY 1981 - 1988
We moved to Isleworth/Osterley in 1961. We bought a maisonette just off Northumberland Avenue, Rothbury Gardens. My first son was 2 weeks old. We lived there for 19 years, by then we have 3 sons and then we moved just across the Great West Road to Syon Park Gardens. It was a really nice area. Across the A4 (Great West Road) was a church where my sons were christened. Abut a mile along the road was a little park and library, in the other direction there was Gillettes Corner, a bank and then a number of fctories, really well-kept, Art Deco style. Jersey Park was quite near, and Syon Park and the Duke of Northumberland's stately home was about a mile away to the east. At Christmas time people would walk along the A4 because all the factories had Christmas trees outside, which were covered in lights, all the children loved this as you can imagine. We lived in Syon Park Gardens until 1988, by this time 2 of my... Read more
