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Isleworth maps
Historic maps of Isleworth and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Isleworth maps
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Isleworth area books
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Memories of Isleworth
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The War Years
In 1930 I was born at 25 Northumberland Avenue, Isleworth. I lived there until 1951 and my most vivid memories are of the Second World War years. My dad dug a hole in the middle of the garden and installed an Anderson shelter in which we slept during the London blitz of 1940.The metal walls were dripping wet with condensation by the time the morning came and we emerged unscathed into the daylight. I can remember the vapour trails of aircraft overhead as the Battle of Britain took place in the blue skies above us. One day there was the sound of a sharp crack and I later found a piece of shrapnel that had torn through the earth and hit the metal wall of the shelter. At night time I would stand in the road outside the house, along with the neighbours, to watch the huge orange glow which seemed to hover at the end of the road. It was of course London burning as the bombs fell onto London,... Read more
Busch House
I attended Busch House Open Air School in the 1950s. I remember Sir Sutton, Miss Halliday, Miss Elliott, Mr Smith (he was bald), Mrs Lillycrapp (she had a daughter attending the school, Vikki I think her name was). I was also good friends with a girl called Maureen Murphy, I don't know if it's the same one.
BUSH HOUSE OPEN AIR SCHOOL, DID YOUATTEND TOO?
Did you attend Bush House Open Air School? My name is Rita Pilbrow (with one more surname on the end which was added a lot later). I was at Bush House Open Air School around 1953 when I was 7 years of age and left in 1954,to return in 1956 when I was 10 years of age. Derek Bird and Maureen Murphy were my friends and even Anne, a very sensitive girl, like myself. I think I left the open air school 1957 to go to Bulstrode Girls School in Hounslow which was close to my home at Lampton Road, Hounslow. During 1954 and 1956 I was at Port Regis Roman Catholic Convent for so called delicate girls (I was and am not Catholic but that is beside the point). I had a friend called Ann from the Bush House Open Air school and a good friend called Maureen. Maureen and I are still in touch,she lives in Canada and her maiden name was Murphy. We used to climb over the back wall... Read more
Wedding Bells
I was born in Isleworth, at 10 Hall Road to be exact and my parents lived in this very house for 50 years.
I remember this house very well, at the time it was owned, as were others by the local council. Just down the road is the County Arms were my husband and I had our wedding reception in 1960 having been married at the Church on Worton Road.
The house has always been a symbol of my childhood and teen years, I remember catching the 2103 bus practically outside of this house and going to school in Twickenham at Twickenham County School for girls, which I understand is no more.
The house had a large garden which my father cultivated with fruit trees and vegetables, my mother hated the colour of the front door, which was painted either green or brown, in the very latter years it was actually blue.
At end of Hall Road were prefabricated 'temporary' houses - built for folks... Read more
Middlesex memories
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I moved to Osterley from Hounslow in 1969 aged 5.
Earliest memories include Mrs Thomas's sweet shop, the greengrocer shop and the fish van that I had to buy cheap fish from for our 2 cats. Riveting stuff eh?!
Spent many happy hours playing in Jersey (rock) Gardens and visited there earlier this year. Not a lot had changed although the tennis courts were in a terrible state(and we wonder why we can't produce a decent tennis player in this country!).
I worked evenings at Peter Donohue's Off-Licence when I was about 15 and lived and worked in Ostereley Park in my early twenties.
I could go on for ages with memories, but would rather hear from other people about their experiences of living in what I always thought of as a unique, quiet village amongst the hustle and bustle of the surrounding area.
Osterley Park in 1944
In 1930 I was born at Northumberland Avenue, Isleworth: parallel to the Great West Road and behind St Francis Church. As Osterley Park was so near I used to play, with my chums, frequently in the grounds of the park. We had many happy hours in the park, cycling through the main dirt road which ran from Wyke Green to Norwood Green. From the road we would, of course, climb over the fence and into the more private grounds of Osterley House. There was a lake between the dirt road and the road which circled the park to the North. Bluebell Woods were between this road and the playing fields at Boston Manor. Now the entire area has been swallowed up by the M4. Also there was a lake, very good for fishing, on the other side of the dirt road, which would be to the south of the dirt road. There were wooden fishing piers onto this lake and the lake yielded some good perch and roach. These poor... Read more
Isleworth & Osterley
I moved from Houslow to Isleworth in about 1961. We lived off the Thornbury Road in Eversley Cresent. I used to play in Osterley Park and walk my dog there as a child. It's a beautiful park. My elder sister Wendy and I both went to Spring Grove Central School, which with hindsight was a dreadful dump that did very little to educate us. We had a dwarfish, long haired, one-eyed, aging headmaster called Mr Lumley and the assistant head was the maths teacher, Mr Chalklen, who took great pleasure in caning the boys. My mum and stepfather used to use the Osterley Off Licence a lot and I too remember Peter O'Donahue, who liked a tipple or two. I've been in the shop a few times when he was tipsy. My mum June and her husband Jack Fearne used to spend most evenings in the Milford Arms public house on the London Road. I had some good friends in Isleworth, particularly Quentin Roberts and Billy Knott.... Read more
