West Kilburn

A Memory of Kilburn.

I was born in Kilburn Park Road. My father was a fireman on the old London North Eastern Railway. My grandparents lived nmext door. My mother was of Irish descent.My first school was Essendine Road whic was just up the road. Our house backed onto Paddington Recreation Ground.My father was om the Supplementary Reserve of the Royal Engineers Railway Operating Company.In 1940 when I was 10 years old the school was evacuated to Penryn Cornwall. Kilburn Park Road was like a village. Everybody new everybody. We came back from Cornwall in1942 and lived in Saltram Crescent which was considered posher.My best friends were Frank Clancy and George Cross we were in the Air Cadets together