Fire Station

A Memory of North Harrow.

Hi, I used to live in the Pinner Road fire station from 1948 until 1961, it holds all my favorite memories, going to Pinner Park school in Headstone Lane. I remember Mora Francis being picked up after school in a big black limousine to go to the film studios as she was one of St Trinian's girls. We used to play football on our way home in the park opposite and then go to Whites sweet shop on Northarrow Parade and buy penny gobstoppers and sit in the allotments behind the Woodlands or go down the air raid shelter. When I was growing up I then went to Headstone Secondary Modern and yes, Ihad the cane on numerous ocasions from Mr Manson or the slipper from the PT instructor Mr Macnab. I also got a Saturday job at Yaldens hardware delivering paraffin on a bike with a basket on the front. My friend and I would meet all the cyclists outside Iver Clark's bike shop or go and look in the toy shop window to see the new Hornby railways. Then as I grew older we would go to the Embassy cinema and pehaps bump into a girl, Silvia Simms was my first love, but alas I was not for her. I also remember Blue Birds sweetshop wich seemed to always be open. I left in 1961 but was so homesick at leaving all my friends in the fire station I came back to live with my best mate and his mum and dad until he met his wife to be and he emigrated to Aussie. I then went to Northamtonshire, got married and always return to see the the way it has changed and show my two boys where I used to live on our way back from Spurs. If anybody remembers me I would love to hear from them.