Wolfe Rubber Co

The story we were told a kids was that Major Wolfe one of the family ha served in the Indian Army and invited on of his Sikh soldiers to bring their families over and work at Wolfes.
The rest is history.

I remember it very well .........Will say no more !

WOW !!!!! they say you learn something every day of you life, thankyou so much for that.

I always thought that it was the Wolfe Rubber Company that bought cheap labour to the country. One of my most vivid memories of my young days was standing at the perimeter fence watching the factory burn down. Can't remember the date but I was around 11 so it could have been 1958ish. Not sure if it was ever rebuilt. Another massive memory was going to the site of the plane crash off Allenby Road around the same date I believe. It was amazing to be able to stand right on the site as they cleared the debris away. There were dozens of us in some poor woman's back garden but I guess that she was feeling very lucky because if the plane had traavelled a few feet further it would have reached her house!

Yes i remember it well i was 10 years old then as it happened in 1958 i was at my Nans house 3 streets away it was a Viking aircraft and i remember there were burnt out cars a lorry and lots of roofs on houses no longer there, many people were killed my Nan said. My Brother and i went to the scene and there were police fire engines and lots of locals helping out. I will always remember seeing the Vicar there as well because he told us not to go any further. I don't suppose we took any notice of him though.I cant for the love of money remember the name of the street my Nan lived at, such a sad memory.

The front of Wof Rubber Works building was uilt like the bridge on the then Queen Elizabeth ship so my late dad told me,

The first Indians in Southall were door to door salesmen selling silks and then others followed moving into houses in Trinity Road Woodlands Road and surrounding roads to work in Wolfe R/W the company then started a 24hr shift