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Memories of North Harrow
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Fire Station
Hi, I used to live in the Pinner Road fire station from 1948 until 1961, it holds all my favorite memories, going to Pinner Park school in Headstone Lane. I remember Mora Francis being picked up after school in a big black limousine to go to the film studios as she was one of St Trinian's girls. We used to play football on our way home in the park opposite and then go to Whites sweet shop on Northarrow Parade and buy penny gobstoppers and sit in the allotments behind the Woodlands or go down the air raid shelter. When I was growing up I then went to Headstone Secondary Modern and yes, Ihad the cane on numerous ocasions from Mr Manson or the slipper from the PT instructor Mr Macnab. I also got a Saturday job at Yaldens hardware delivering paraffin on a bike with a basket on the front. My friend and I would meet all the cyclists outside Iver Clark's bike shop or go and look in... Read more
Happy Days at Elmcroft Crescent
Hi, I came across this site by accident but I am delighted to recap on happy days spent living in North Harrow. We lived in Elmcroft Crescent off Headstone Lane and attended the comprehensive school at the boundary connecting George 5th Avenue and the Pinner road. The headmaster I still remember - Mr Manser! Two canings put me in order although our PTI (name forgotten) was also handy with a black plimsol. I recall doing well at sports - particularly shot-putting (I had developed the Parry O'Brien method of swinging at 180% to the front) and also at rugby when I had the unfortunate distinction of falling on an opponent in a ruck and breaking his arm - match cancelled and Day junior mentioned in assembly the next morning! My twin sister, Gladys, excelled study-wise and sports-wise; in fact she was a real clever dick! Her favourite trick was to bring a motley selection of netball buddies home to taunt me and pinch Mum's cakes. My dear mother was... Read more
The Tithe Barn
This picture is of the Tithe Barn at Harrow Museum and Heritage Centre. It is one of four listed buildings at the site and is part of the former medieval Headstone Manor estate. Harrow Museum can be contacted on 020 8861 2626
My Grandfather's Shop in Preston Road
As a large family and well known in the area, the Rogers of today are trying to contact any others from the past. There were 10 boys and 4 girls, all but 1 are dead now but most of us didn't know many of our uncles or aunties, so are you our relations? If you think you might be then please contact me, in particular we want to find the children of Peter and Queenie Rogers who lived in a flat in Kingsbury, Whippet are you out there, where are you? Please get in touch with me. Joan (my father was Ralph Reginald Rogers). joan@simmonscrew.co.uk
Preston Road Shops
My great Grandfather, George frederick Rogers ( c1880 ) owned the Newsagents ( still named Rogers ) on the Preston Road at Preston road station, way back in the 1920's ?. Before the parade of shops where built he had a wooden hut type building where he served teas and sandwiches to the train travelers. When the parade was built he got the rental of the shop on the first plot and the Rogers shop was born. I have heard from my father that the Rogers family was well known in the area and for years on the wall of the Preston pub there was all sorts of Rogers family history in frames ; namely the story of the 10 Rogers brothers who went to war and all came back safely. My grandfather had a window cleaning buisness for the area in his younger years ( Philip Rogers c1906)
Unfortunatly the pub has recently been refurbished by a company and I was just too late and all has been... Read more
North Harrow Shops
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... Read more
The Tithe Barn And Harrow Museum
Moat Farm Park? I find this surprising as its claim to fame is surely the preserved buildings of the Tithe Barn and surroundings. The Barn itself is the site of Harrow Museum and hosts various fund raising fairs, events and concerts each year to pay for its upkeep. On many of these Bank Holiday Monday events the organisers invite local performers including Whitethorn Morris Dancers. I have played my accordian for the Whitethorn Band on all of these occasions - sometimes performing on the tarmac forecourt of the Tithe Barn, but in wet weather in the Barn itself. It is a lovely venue for community events.
Northumberland Road
We lived at 29 Northumberland Road in the 1950s with my grandmother. My sister Moira and I went to Longfield school and I have many happy memories there. My grandmother took me with her to St Albans church as a very small child and I recall sitting on one of the very long pews on the right side of the aisle.
We used to go to ballet classes at the Methodist church at the other end of North Harrow. Another memory is of Pinner Fair, that was an amazing experience at the time. I also recall my first experience of 'The Dentist'. The surgery was not far from Sopers, which was situated at this end of the Broadway on the right, (as you look at the picture shown). Anyway, the dentist used no anaesthetic for fillings which were done with the old grinding drill - I have been phobic ever since!
