Coral Merriman

A Memory of Kingsbury.

I was born in 1941 in the Maternity Home in Honeypot Lane. We lived at 595 Kenton Road just opposite the Church where we went to Sunday School and Brownies. There was a garage on the corner, opposite a row of shops and waste ground before you got to Kingsbury Circle and the shops. Half way up on the left hand side was a small arcade which had a dolls hospital in, right at the end of the shops was the CooP with long wooded counters and glass topped tins of biscuits, their was a chair for you to sit on while you were being served by the assistant behind the counter, afterewards you paid at the cash desk giving your divi number which was saved for Xmas. On the other side of the road was the bombed out Woolworths, its stone checked floor all that was left of the store. Half was down was the tube station and Burtons was on the corner of the road leading to the fields on Barn Hill. My sister and I went to Uxington Manor School, Mr McDonald was our Headmaster. We left there and moved to Hertfordshire in 1952.

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