60's in Hatch End: A memory of Hatch End

60's In Hatch End

A Memory of Hatch End.

\yes remember this so well, I live in Pinner now and the modern picture would be full of cars of a day and especially in the evening of people eating out, this must have the most concentrated restaurants in the UK.

The only original shop still going is Halls Chemist but there is still a sweet shop a few doors up and the sweet shop cum post office further down.

I attended Grimsdyke Primary School up to 1959 and the memories of Hatch End and its surroundings are a treasure, I even had a paper round at Smiths delivering to The Avenue.

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My sister and her husband lived 'over the shop' at Mac Fisheries in Hatch End in the 60s/70s up two flights of a cast iron external staircase at the back- hell of a weight and awkward to get a fridge moved in!!

By Brian Wood on Mon Nov 24th 2014, at 12:47 am

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I was interested to read the comment above mentioning Mac Fisheries in Hatch End, I worked there as the Saturday boy from about 1960- 1964, I remember the cast iron stairs at the back of the shop to the flat above, and I also remember the eldest daughter who lived there had a large lump taken from her arm by a horse, she once told me this.
The manager of the shop was a Mr Phipps, it was a great place, no pun intended, to work.
I started there because my Mum worked just up the road in a sweet shop called Coles if I remember correctly, it was next to Smiths, it later became Finlay’s tobacconist shop, and later again moved across the road on the corner.
Around 1964-65 I also got a paper round at Bunces paper shop which at the time was right at th3 end of th3 shops going towards Pinner.. Happy, easy days.

By Colin Firth on Wed Feb 26th 2020, at 6:47 am

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