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 Tilehurst, School Road c1960 (ref: T48027) |
Year: 1940s
My Memories Of Tilehurst
I was born in Theale but my parents moved to Tilehurst when I was 3 years of age where we lived at 16a Norcot Road with my grandparents Edith and Harold Goddard and other siblings to my mother Audrey Parsons, my father was Bill. I attended Park Lane School from age 5 to 11 years when the Headmistress was Miss Clamp, two other teachers were Miss Norris and Miss Williams . At 11 I attended Norcot School, Tilehurst and the teachers I remember are Mr Saul who was the Headmaster, Miss London, Mr Turner, Mr Drake and Mr Ayres. The team houses in the school were Waltham, Niblett, Deverall and Hellyer,each with their colours of red, blue green and yellow. I was in Niblett which was green. During my schooldays we played and watched football matches in the Rec' on the corner of Armour Road and Kentwood Hill, there was a pub on the opposite corner named The White House and on the corner of School Road and Armour Road was our GP, a Doctor Lynn- Jones. In School Road and Norcot Road was where I did my grandma's shopping, the butcher was Mr Thaxter, grocer Mr Bragg, tobacconist Mr Wond, newsagent Mr Hedges. The post office was run by a Mr Kneebone and the shoe mender was Mr Barefoot, both of the latter 2 names always amused me as a child. Ah yes, how could I forget The Yorkshire Fisheries and 'Snip' Warner the hairdresser? Mrs Rule owned the bakery and the lovely baker Gerry who was always very kind and there were many other shops too. I had some good friends at school and to name a few schoolfriends, there was Mary Duck, Joan Berry, Doris Druce, Ron Clarke, Eddie Barker, John Jerome, Tony House, Hazel Belcher etc etc. We used to travel into Reading on the trolley buses and I remember as 'kids' we would press an ear to the trolley bus poles to hear when the bus was coming!, I need to add so many more memories but this will have to wait as my bed is calling me ... Last edited: 06/10/2008 08:56 by Hazel Parsons |
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Tilehurst, School Road c1960 (ref: T48027) |
Tilehurst 1960s
I was born at 4 Juniper Way, Tilehurst 1962. I lived there until I was 9. I have such warm memories of that time although my memories appear more like snapshots as I was so young I remember some sounds of that time that have stayed with me. The electric motor and clinking of milk bottles from Job's Dairy, the wushing sound of the coal man filling our coal bunker with coal from the sack across his shoulder and the, what appeared, constant sound of light aircraft from a nearby airfield. These planes were always red as I remember. Reading Speedway was at least 3 miles away but once a week there would be that distintive strained engine sound from motorbikes sliding around the speedway circuit. My last sound memory which may have been in the early 70s was was a thumping bass sound from the annual Reading Festival in August. I lived at the top of the road which dropped away into quite a steep hill, I remember getting so scared when my mum was learning to drive in a lime green Ford Poplar practising her hill starts. My mum would do her shopping at Waitrose down the Meadway or Bishops on Overdown Road and a special trat was a cream cake from Warings bakery on Armour Road. I used to play a lot in Newbury Park. I used to use the Armour Hill entrance and walk past concrete horse water troughs on the way. I never saw a horse but in Newbury Park in the 60s there was a play area that still had one of those green rocking horses that would seat about 4 kids and rock backward and foreward, and the metal cobweb you needed to hang onto tight to stay on. I went to school at the Laurels infant school on School Road and then Park Lane primary before moving to Kent. While all these memories are accurate as I remember them, the memories of a child are selective. I remember it was sunny every day, it never rained, the pink blossom was on the trees in Juniper Way all year round and I never had to share my toys ..............if only. Last edited: 30/09/2008 08:56 by Andrew Parker |
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Tilehurst, School Road c1960 (ref: T48027) |
Year: 1950
Birds nest
I was about 5 or 6 and my dad was a school groundsman visiting schools in the Reading area cutting the grass and generaly keeping the grounds tidy. He would sometimes take me with him on a Saturday or during the holidays, always by bus no car in those days. I remember going with him to the school at the end of this road towards the trees on the left of the photo. The school caretaker took delight in lifting me up to look into a birds nest with baby birds in it. Nearly 60 years on this is still a memory that I have kept. Last edited: 16/02/2008 19:36 by Joe Lee |
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