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 Edgware, Hale Lane c1965 (ref: E126050) |
Year: 1964
Now I remember
Having discovered this site only recently many memories came flooding back, as reminded by the photo of Hale Lane where I helped out in the Kosher Deli as a kid. I lived in Lynford Gardens then in Glendale Avenue over a period of about 10 years from the age of nine until 19 when I left to live overseas. Looking back today I feel very fortunate to have grown up here having moved from Kensington out to the 'Green Belt' as it was known in those days. I attended Edgware Secondary Modern School and as a kid used to roam far and wide especialy on bicycles with my mates. Climbing the big oak trees in Edgwarbury Park, and missing out on school to go exploring the countryside on bikes and cycling to Hampstead Heath in the snow to slide down the Heath. Great memories of lots of friends and plenty to do. These days I live in Australia in the middle of the rainforest, who would have ever dreamt as a kid growing up in Edgware that decades later I would end up here. Last edited: 18/06/2008 10:36 by David Berg |
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 Edgware, Station Road 1954 (ref: e126025) |
Edgware, Station Road
I lived in Edgware between 1959 and 1969, I was only 6 months old when we moved from Harrow. I can remember my mother going into the haberdashery shop called Stanley J Lees, the original Sainsbury's with wooden floors and counters and where they wrapped up the cheese in greaseproof paper, Woolworths, MacFisheries (with their upstairs restaurant), Valentine Brooks the sweet shop, Fine Fare's down by the library, also the furriers in Edgebury Lane which was diagonally opposite the Kosher grocers. I can also remember the wood yard (somewhere around where the Green Shield Stamp building was eventually built) where they used to let me scrabble round the floor and collect bags of sawdust for my guinea pig's cage for no charge. I spent many an hour up the alleyway that led to the sidings of the train station watching the tube trains, it was next to Brill the bakers and I can still smell the bread baking as it was wafted out of the Expelair right by the train buffers. I used to live in The Rise with the Silk Stream running at the bottom of the road, we were often visited in the garden by big brown water rats. My grandparents used to own the house having moved in in around 1936 - they lived there, initially, for three years but the war intervened and they mothballed the house and temporarily moved away, they returned to the house in the late 1940's. My parents bought the house from them in 1959. It was next door to the dentist whose house was situated between The Rise and Hale Lane. My room was the maid's room and had bars on the windows. All the other rooms had a bell system that rang down in the morning room. My father was a scout master somewhere either in Harrow or Edgware. both of my parents and brother ten pin bowled for Middlesex at the newly built bowling alley. My sister was head girl at Edgware School in the mid sixties, I can remember going to prize night and Cliff Richard was giving out the prizes and he sung "congratulations". Posted: 21/01/2008 16:35 by Anne Broomhead |
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 Edgware, St Lawrence's Church c1955 (ref: E126016) |
Year: 1950
my family church
This was the church I attended with my family as a child from 1950-1966 when I moved away to college. My father is buried at the end of the path up to the entry to the church. The rector for some time was Rev. Cottrell with three children who were about the age of my twin and me. The boys were called Richard and David. Our lives pretty well revolved round the church with sunday Services,Sunday school and church breakfast and the youth group as we got older and scouts and girl guides. The rector lived in a huge cold manse next to the church where we would have the annual summer fete.To get to church we would ride in my fathers Turquoise Vauxhall Velox ( his pride and joy until he got a huge old Humber Super Snipe) or we would walk across Canons Park. We lived in a community near North London Colleigate school opposite the Principal, head mistress Dame Kitty Anderson. My father used to walk to Canons Park Station to get the underground to work off Oxford Street in London. In the evenings in summer we would cross Canons park to meet him and if the sun was setting he would lift me up on his shoulders to see the "fairy Castle" in Stanmore which glowed an opulecent white and he would say it had been built with little children's baby teeth! There was a lake near our home, the Seven Acre Lake where we would spend our summers swimming fishing and playing in boats. Our social life was great as there were so many families living there and the diving board would team with children of all ages from the older teens to little tots learning to swim in the muddy waters. In winter we would test the ice and on odd years we had ice thick enough to skate on. Having left in 1966 I have only once returned and it was wonderful to look at photos and reminise about my childhood which was so free and carefree. Posted: 28/11/2007 23:38 by Sanna Say |
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 Edgware, Edgwarebury Lane c1955 (ref: E126026) |
Year: 1975
Edgware
This year we came over to England from Africa - so first impression of England was this suburban town, the majority of habitants were Jewish; close community, just like our Indian community. Most of my friends were Jewish. The atmosphere and smells were of Jewish cooking. My friends' fathers were also businessmen, so I related to them. During my school days, I read Anne Frank's Diary, I am David and watched Fiddler on the Roof on television, I understood where they came from. My first home in England was in Edgware and where my mother still lives. It still holds happy memories of my childhood..It has since changed drastically, but I will always consider it home.. Last edited: 01/08/2007 13:00 by Grishma Shah |
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Edgware, Edgwarebury Lane c1955 (ref: E126026) |
Year: 1949
The town I grew up in
This was the town I grew up in until I was 8. There is one day that stands out in my mind. My mother had been informed that the local fruiterer had oranges. His location was about half a mile from our house. England was still in the grip of heavy rationing. As I loved oranges, our Mother decided that I should go with her instead of one of my three siblings. We left the house and had walked about 100 yards then we came across a queue, my Mother enquired whether they were queueing for meat, bread or fish the answer was no, it was oranges, so we dutifully waited and slowly it gradually got to our turn. When my mother was offered ONE lowly orange she enquired with a certain amount of annoyance why the purveyer of the fruit had not informed the queuees that he was running low on oranges and why the previous customer had not taken the last orange, she was told that it would have been put him over his ration and as for the queue he was to busy to take notice. Anyhow my Mother took that last orange. She could not make the marmalade she expected to make, she did a very caring and unselfish thing, she took a knife to that orange cut it in four and gave a piece each to my brothers and I. Maybe that is the reason she was blessed with a little baby girl that she had wanted a year later. Mind you to this date I still hate queues but I stll love Edgware. My elder brother lives there so I stll go when I am visiting England from Australia. Unfortunately it has fallen to the march of time, it is no longer the busy town of the fifties. The cinema has gone and some ugly block of flats are in its place. Gone are some of the quaint shops, even a tea shop that had been there since I was a child has gone. And they call modernisation progress!! Last edited: 30/09/2006 02:32 by Raymond Garfield |
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