Nostalgic memories of Southall's local history
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Displaying Memories 51 - 60 of 130 in total
Between 1950 - 1980's the family owned a bakers shop at 84 High Street.
P.G.WOODFORD & SON (opposite the Police Station).
If anyone has memories of this period it would be good to get in touch. I attended Beaconsfield Road Infant School then moved to Dormers Well Junior School when it opened in the mid 50's. We lived in Park Avenue, Southall until the late 70's when we moved to ...see more
Does anyone remember Wood Bros Ironmongers at 6 South Road?
I have just returned from a nostalgic trip to Southall. My Grandparents Joseph Remington Boynton Ellis and Agnes Ellis first lived in Mount Pleasant Cottages opposite Dormers Wells High School around 1930. Grandad Joseph, and his father before him both worked at the gasworks. They then went to live at 38 Dormers Avenue where my Father was born in 1936 and then to 108 Lady Margaret Road Southall where they had 13 ...see more
My father owned the corner shop (newsagents) adjacent to Park View Road, opposite Holy Trinity church from 1961 until it was pulled down in 1968. My parents, sister, brother and I lived in the accommodation above and behind the shop. It was pretty awful, but we knew it as home and have very fond memories of living there. My sister and I did the paper round for Park View road and I was always ...see more
I was born with my twin brother at 91 Greenland Cres. In November 1945. Following my fathers discharge from the RAF we moved to 197 Allenby Road. It was quite a nice location then and backed onto Jubilee Park. During my younger years I attended Lady Margaret junior school, followed by Dormers Wells secondary modern school.
At the age of 11 I joined the scouts that met at North Road School where I learnt to ...see more
I was born at 18, Cranleigh Gardens on the 23/05/1936, my was born in Whites Cottage, Kings Street Southall onthe 26//091905 my grandfather was Southall first fire officer my grandfather was Edward (Ted) J Bowden & my grandmother was Catherine M Bowden nee Woods they came Southall from Iver Bucks., they moved from there ...see more
I recently went back for a nostalgic look at the area I came from and wondered if anyone knows if and when Southall Working Men's Club changed address.
I used to go there when I was young as my dad Charlie Hayes was president there for a long time, I think in the 50's and 60's. Fred Ketley was also a name I remember - he could have been treasurer.
When I went back last month I found Clifton Road, ...see more
Ives was my mothers maiden name, it was her father Edward and then her brother Bryan who had the shop . I believe it was a newsagents before my grandfather was proprietor.Bryan sold the shop and moved to Somerset .He sadly passed away several years ago, along with that generation of the Ives family. I think Bryan"s brother Peter is the only one still living..
I also remember Ives newsagent, used to get my Mandy and Bunty comics from there regularly.
The Candy Box was a treat. The other shops on the parade next to the Prince of Wales pub that I can remember were Lester's the grocers, Wilsons Newsagents, a Wool shop a Greengrocers and a cobblers. Does anyone remember Arthurs, a sort of hut where you could get your parrafin from, near the Halfway house pub?
I was born in ...see more
I remember the dairy in Havelock road i was a milkboy helping a milkman on a round in a bedford van doing as far as heathrow airport driving across the tarmac to the aircraft hangers, try that now, i remember waiting early one morning for him to arrive at the dairy but he was late due to a car accident in his vauxhall victor estate, how things come back to you,down at the end of havelock road there was a ...see more