Wolf Rubber

A Memory of Southall.

I was born in 1934 in Burns Avenue Southall, and I remember Snells Farm at the bottom of Burns Ave, before it became a prefab estate. Left Dormers Wells at 14 in 1948. I worked at Wolf Rubber in 1949 and my job was cleaning metal shafts that where put into washing machine rubber rollers. Most of the machines were run from an overhead drive shaft and connected to the machines via a large belt. There where many foreign workers there in my time, but I did not stay long. I then worked at James Davis Timber on the banks of the canal at Hayes Bridge. I left Southall in 1954 after I got married. I went back to Southall for the first time in 2007; my god the Southall I knew had long gone, what a shame .