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Pinner Sorting Office
The photographer is standing on the road just outside Pinner sorting office. I worked for this post office as a "Christmas Casual" in 1962 and the crafty regular postmen dumped all the unpopular rounds on the young students doing a couple of weeks casual work. Although the sorting office was at the top of Bridge Street in Pinner village itself, my round was in Northwood Hills delivering to Alandale Drive, Lyndhurst Gardens and Avenue, and Dale Close. This was a good two miles away - and uphill too! I rode my ropey old post office bike which in those days had no front pannier so you carried your letters in satchels over your shoulder. At Christmas this needed two satchels! I fell off my bike cycling past the traffic lights in Pinner Green as my load was so heavy it overbalanced me as I turned the corner! Folks rushed from the nearby bus stop to pick me up! Gosh I was tired that week. The day started early with... Read more
183 Bus to The Pinner Red Lion
All buses going to Pinner in the 1950's had the destination "Pinner Red Lion" as there was an old pub of that name on the corner of Love Lane and Bridge Street. The bus in this photo has continued its journey having passed The Red Lion and is lumbering up Bridge Street towards The Langham Cinema at the top of the hill (the photographer is probably standing on the pavement in front of either the cinema or the adjacent post office). Perhaps it was a 183 going to Pinner Green (destination "The Bell") or to Northwood - or maybe a 98 or a 209 going to Hatch End and on to Wealdstone bus garage (209) or North Harrow (98)? The Red Lion is no more, having fallen victim to developers, and the only remaining clue to its existence is that the modern row of shops at the bottom of Bridge Street is named Red Lion Parade. If you now get on a bus and ask for Pinner Red Lion all... Read more
A Traditional English Pub!
The Queen's Head is little changed - maybe a horse trough on the pavement but the front of the building is pure English village pub! It was the starting point for many a village pub crawl and some fun times pushing wheelbarrows of tipsy teenage friends on charity fundraising days in the 1960's. Some of the black and white photographs of these adventures can still be seen hanging on the wall in the gents at the back of the pub to this day! Little did I realise back in 1966 that forty years later I would still be calling at the Queen's Head but instead of pushing a wheelbarrow I would be playing an accordian for the Whitethorn Morris Dancers! It has been a popular venue for morris dancers and mummers - particularly on St George's Day - April 23rd.
Dad's Car And The Youth Club
My maiden name was Wood. We lived at Cuckoo Hill, I just wonder if that was our father's VX. I have spoken to my brother Richard who thinks it's possible as they were so very rare in those days. My brother Richard use to run the youth club down the road from the church. He did it conjuction with his school friends from Johns Lyons School, Martyn Potts, Graham, Johns Coles and some others. He is four years older than me. He was about seventeen in 1964 and would regularly go for a drink at the pub afterwards, a few years later I use to go in there hoping not to be caught, especially by my brother!
Tailors in Pinner
I used live halfway between Eastcote and Pinner and used to pop over to see school friends in Pinner. One of the boys lived in the old High Street and his dad was a tailor. Age catches up with me and I think his name was Stuart (Stewart) Clegg. Anybody remember the tailors shop, it was there back in the early to mid 1960s till I moved oop north.
The 221 Single-Decker Bus From Pinner to Hatch End in The 1950''s
In the early 1950s my mother would put me on a Metropolitan Line train at Baker Street and tell me to get off at Pinner Station and be met by my Auntie Dorrie. Its amazing to think I was only 7 or 8 years old at the time!
This was around 1953, when I was living in Bexleyheath (at that time in Kent although now swallowed up in Greater London). Auntie Dorrie and I would then catch an old pre-war single decker bus on route 221 that struggled up Pinner High Street and then rattled its way along Paines Lane towards the Uxbridge Road and Hatch End. We got off this bus at Woodhall Drive and walked to her home in Woodhall Gate. Do you know the fare was just a penny-ha'penny!!
I would love these trips from my home in Bexleyheath to stay with her in my school holidays. Pinner seemed to be a HUGE place seen through a young boy's eyes!
The Queen's Head Pub
Although the view is intended to show parked cars, I am looking past the VW Beetle and the Austin A35 van and gazing fondly at The Queen's Head!
Many is the pint of beer or cider I have drunk here since the 1960's although I didn't really get interested in beer until after I left Pinner Grammar School in 1963. While I was at school I would cycle to and from my home in Hatch End past the pub!
Pinner Fair
I was born in Ruislip Gardens in 1939, we were moved to Pinner in 1940 due to the war and living next to Northolt Aerodrome. I lived in the area for 20 years before emigrating to Adelaide, South Australia in 1967. On a visit to UK in 1995 I was overjoyed to find that the fair was on on the very day I visited and I had a pint of Benskins best bitter (my old brew) in the Queen's Head to celebrate. My main memory as a child is of going to the annual fair every year. As the road was closed to traffic the buses had to turn round near the Vagabonds Hall. The Helter Skelter was always positioned on the forecourt of the old Red Lion and they had all the side shows with the Siamese twins (pickled piglets) and the bearded lady, two-headed snake etc. in front of the Langham Cinema. The 98 bus to Ruislip and the 98b to Uxbridge terminated at the Red Lion as... Read more
