Growing Up In Radlett

A Memory of Radlett.

I was born in the King Street Nursing Home in Watford and spent the first few years of my life with my parents and Grandparents in Radlett on Gills Hill Lane.  I went to the Infant School and then the Girl's School at the bottom of Loom Lane.  When I was 4, we moved to some prefabs in Phillimore Place (which is now apartment blocks).  The family name is Ward.  I remember what fun I had swimming up at Aldenham Lodge and playing in the Rec field.  What a scare it was walking down Gills Hill Lane at night (Murder Lane) - nobody liked that very much.  I used to go to Sunday School at the Congregational Church, shopping at the Co-Op with my mother, the library, the fishmongers (Ted & Ron Humphreys), and the first movie I saw was Peter Pan with my mother (standing room only) at the Radlett cinema.  I used to keep my bus money for home from school and spend it at the bakery on some treat or other.  I had friends who lived in the Station Road area - the Hedges.  
The last time I went for a drive around Radlett was in 2000.  I would love to go back again and do some walking along some remembered streets.  I understand Radlett is now a very "up and coming place" to live with the commuter set.