Nostalgic memories of Kilburn's local history
Share your own memories of Kilburn and read what others have said
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.
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Displaying Memories 1 - 10 of 13 in total
I lived here 45-47 myParents had the fish and chip shop and furniture store. I remember the twins next door, Ruth and faith who used to come over and we would eat scrump in the bomb shelter in the back yard area. Went to Surrey Street School and my uncle Bill operated the pub down the street. Emigrated to Canada in 1948.
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I am tracing my family history and trying to find out about Joseph pollard, he was a farmer in Kilburn and died at Kilburn Hall in 1804, I wondered if anyone knew anything about the hall of the history of it
Many thanks
Dawn
I lived at 68 Albert Road from about 1953 until they knocked the street down and we all moved up to the flats at the top of the road. It was a great place to be a kid, we still had the bomb site at the back of the gardens in between Albert and Denmark Road. We lived just opposite the pub and the dairy, Lionel ran the dairy for years. The Smiths, Terry and Tony lived next door to us and the Creans and Smoulders lived ...see more
My name is Brian Scott, I lived at number 76 Albert Road during the period 1950-59.
Next door to us lived the Beardons, opposite lived the Smiths and the Tylers, next to them the Deveraux. On the next street down lived the Boggins. I also had friends in Charlton House (built after a doodlebug flattened the previous houses). When I left 76 Albert Road in 1959, the doors and walls were still cracked following the ...see more
I was born in New End Hospital, Hampstead. My family lived at 92 Maygrove Road, Kilburn and my dad and his brothers and sister were all born a bit further up the road. I remember Timms Shop which sold just about everything you needed. Mr Timms always wore shorts, Mr Punter served the papers. The other end of the road which joined Iveson Road was a shop where I was sent for Golden Syrup.
I worked at F J ...see more
My grandparents and all their 11 children (including my father) were born and lived for many years in Albert Road, Kilburn. I used to visit many years later and the whole house would shake when the trains went by on the line outside the kitchen window! There was no gardens and the front door opened directly onto the street - primitive in the extreme. We lived in Cricklewood and thought that was a great improvement!
I was born at 31 Esmond Road, Kilburn in 1938. We were evacuated to Bletchley and Leighton Buzzard on and off throughout the Second World War. In 1945 we had a VE day party, of which the photo was put on the cover of Max Bygraves "Sing along a Warsong", it is right outside our house, my dad had got some pictures of the King and Queen (God knows where he got them from), my mum is holding a large white enamel ewer ...see more
I loved reading the lovely memories of Kilburn. My Mother and father lived there in 1967 and some of their stories are lovely. I know this is a long shot but can anyone remember a bank advert in June 1967 for a bank offering to "Own your own home in 12 months"? The poster was on the railway bridge on Kilburn High Road. My mother and father opened a bank account in Cricklewood Broadway in 1967 but they can't remember the ...see more
My mother was brought up in Lowfield Road, so although we lived in West Hampstead, we frequently passed through it on our way to shop in Kilburn High Road. Passed through it far too slowly for my liking because my mother invariably encountered some of her friends there and she seemed to spend ages chatting with them. However, when we did finally move on, the first port of call was a sweet shop at the end of ...see more
As a young child in the late 30's and early 40's, a visit to B.B. Evans Department Store in Kilburn High Road was like a visit to Aladdin's Cave. Full of all kinds of clothes and household articles and a wonderful toy department, which had an ingenious "Santa's Grotto" every Christmas. With its stairs and lift and (literally) above all, its utterly fascinating pneumatic payment system. Whereby your money and your bill ...see more