My Grandmother, Sarah Regan

A Memory of Hendon.

My grandmother's funeral was in April of 1959; she used to live at 2 Johns Avenue from1910 to 1943 when she moved to her daughter's house in Harrow. My grandfather, John Regan, was also buried there in July 1934, in the very early years he was a brick-layer and worked with stone doing work on the walls at the front of the church. My parents married there in July 1935; through to her later years I would go with my gran to put flowers on his grave. It was with very great sadness that on visit from New Zealand in 1987 to find my grandparent's grave had with a number others gone, the vicar I spoke to, to see what I could find out (reasons why etc...), took little or no interest in my questions. A local hearing my questions very kindly explained that graves not visited and over grown etc... the space was given to a local school. Now, I have no problem with that, common sense I guess, but no trace of any of the old tombstones, which I thought may have been placed in another area in the church property. But no, not I feel, a very good image for the St Mary's. I am including my home address here in New Zealand in case someone can shine a light on the missing tombstones. Mike Dickson, 65b Halswater drive, Churton Park, Wellington, New Zealand. I will finish by saying that my memories of the area is still very strong........cheers from ''down under''.