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My time in North Finchley
During the 2nd WW, my dad signed up with the Belgian section of the Royal Navy. On leave, he met up with my mum and married her in Christchurch in 1944. I came along in 1945. After the war my dad returned to Belgium, and my mum went with him. Being English she had a tough time learning the language. In 1953, my mum had to have a major operation (in Maida Vale), during which time I had to attend school. As my dad was minesweeping (in the Belgian Navy) he couldn't look after me, so I had to come with her to England. I stayed with my grandparents, at No 76 Woodhouse Road, North Finchley. I attended school at "Summerside ...read more here
A memory of North Finchley contributed by christine moeyaert
Brent Street
At last, Brent Street as I remembered it all those years ago. I would have been 7 years old when this picture was taken. I was born in New Brent Street and shortly moved to Bellvue Road. I went to Bell Lane Infant School.
I would go shopping with my mum along Brent Street. I remember 'Rossins' the bakers, where mum would buy me a tiny hovis loaf, then there was 'Home & Colonials' that smelled of all sorts of cooked meats. At the corner of Bellvue Road and Brent Street was 'Phillips' grocery shop where the shop girls would give me Penguin bars.
The Classic cinema was in Bellvue Road, and I used to sit at my bedroom window ...read more here
A memory of Hendon contributed by Linda Keats
Martins stores 54 Watford way
I worked as a delivery boy at Martins stores between 1965 and 1967, I had a large delivery bike with a basket on the front and delivered all around the hendon area often getting soaked through in the winter. The store moved to Vivian Ave in the 70's. I can recall the Watford way when it was not a dual carriage way and you risked life and limb trundling the bike across 6 lanes of traffic.
A memory of Hendon contributed by ian rogers
The Greyhound Pub
this is the Greyhound pub next to st Marys Church. Both my Grandfather's downed many a pint here, my Dad learned how to drink here too. My Mum lived at 53 Sunny Gardens road behind the church and had to go and collect her father on a Sunday for dinner. One of my ancestors "Charles Bocking Rogers" is buried in the church graveyard under the tree. In my family research I've been here twice now and each time had a pint of Bombadier and raised a glass to my ancestors.
all the best
Pete Rogers
A memory of Hendon contributed by Pete Rogers
Extracts From Finchley & London books
The nineteenth hole is to be found in Nether Court, a free-standing neo-Jacobean mansion by Percy Stone. The course, one of many within Greater London, occupies a stretch of land extending south from Frith Manor to the Dollis Brook. Although suburbia laps around its southern edges, the course does, in part, retain a well-treed, almost rural atmosphere.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
Ballards Lane is a straight, uninteresting road which effectively forms a link between Finchley Road and Tally Ho Corner. The Edwardian buildings in the photograph have changed little, apart from losing their rather elegant shop fronts.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
This is a classic photograph of a north London suburb around the turn of the century, with a mix of design and scale in the road-side buildings. Shop fronts with their windows bulging with merchandise, and a certain unhurried atmosphere, present a picture of life far removed from the mobile ‘phone and computerised urgency of the early 21st century.
An extract from from"North London Photographic Memories".
High Street North is a
relatively undistinguished
and typical London
suburban shopping street:
the exuberance of the Town
Hall complex is forgotten.
The Midland Bank on the
corner of Caulfield Road
(right) is one of their 1920s
Classical-style single-storey
buildings that add quality to
many High Streets. On the
left the taller Victorian brick
buildings were demolished
in the 1970s and replaced
by bland flat roofed ones.
An extract from from"London Living Memories".
We pass under the River Thames via the Blackwall Tunnel - the northbound side dates from the 1890s, an early
project of the LCC, which was established in 1888. East Ham was in Essex until 1965, but since the mid 19th
century very much a part of greater London. Here we approach East Ham’s town centre along the busy North
Circular Road, which seems in places merely a casual linkage of suburban roads. These terraces of neat
Edwardian bay-windowed houses survive, and lead towards the Town Hall with its tower.
An extract from from"London Living Memories".