North Harrow Shops

A Memory of North Harrow.

I left Pinner Grammar School in 1963 and well remember this view as I sometimes cycled this route back home to Hatch End. Mostly I would go home the direct way through Pinner but I can remember putting in the extra miles to go via North Harrow for a couple of very good reasons!  

On the left of the picture close to the bus stop was a good toy shop with a window display of model railways. As I grew older my motivation switched from model railways to girls and I remember pedalling the North Harrow route in the hope of seeing Elizabeth Armstrong who sadly went to another school. I was lucky a few times but courage failed me so I never asked her out or we might have gone to the cinema which is on the right of this view (but now a supermarket and bowling alley!).

The tall building in the centre background was a car showroom and I think it may have been United Motors selling Datsun cars in the late 1970's as I am pretty sure my mother bought her Datsun Cherry there.