Nostalgic memories of Pinner's local history
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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 24 in total
I was fortunate enough to live in Pinner as a small child 8 & 9 years old. We lived on 9 Nower Hill, and I remember befriending the railway station ticket lady. She and I used to go out to the parking lot (which was gravel back then) and look for loose change. She would be kind enough to give me rail passes, and I would go to the History museum, or Kensington Gardens, or the Queens residence Buckingham palace. I ...see more
Does anyone remember this restaurant in the late 60s and 70s? It was a massive treat to be taken here by my parents as a small child and feel so grown up, sitting in the red velvet booths with white tableclothes, melba toast with curly butter. I always had lamb cutlets and creamed potatoes with peas. Would love to share a memory with anyone else who loved it too :)
Before I moved to The Ridgeway in 1955 I live in Woodall Drive and regularly used the 221 bus to trundle up Paines Lane past my school, and ending up in the space outside the RedLion pub. I remember how the bus rocked each time the driver climbed in and out of his cab!
Both the driver and conductor used to disappear into the pub, presumably for a comfort break, at the end of the journey.
I seem to ...see more
I worked at Pinner Radio and Electrical Maintenance in Station Approach Pinner from 1956 to 1967. The shop was located at the bottom of Station Approach, next to a little tobacconist kiosk on one side and the old Victory pub on the other... I wonder if anyone has any memories of this little shop. It was owned by Arthur Breese and both his son's Tony and Chris Breese worked there too,
From the bottom of Station Approach ...see more
My Great-grandmother was the landlord of this pub in the 1950s and 60s. Her name was Eva Amy Larkin, and she ran this pub as a widow. With my great grandfather she had managed Gunter's tea room in Park Lane during the war, then the Red Lion pub in Hounslow. When Frank Larkin died, she came to Pinner where my Grandad Ron, Eva's daughter Pam's husband, worked part-time to help out. My mum spent many happy school holidays ...see more
I will add my memories of Pinner Fair while I am able.
1946 and in my last year at Potter St School. A youthful man dressed in a sort of "cowboy outfit," faced a young woman spread against a board. He threw several axes each side of her; they stuck in the board. He then threw knives about two feet to the side of her body. I might add that I myself never thought this as entertainment. He then had her lie down and cover ...see more
I was born in the flat above 26 Bridge Street. My parents, Len & Judy Langstone, had the greengrocers; the business was started by my grandfather in the 1920's. I have fond memories of Pinner fair, we could look down on it from our flat. Also of tobogganing in the snow up Pinner Hill and Saturday pictures at the Langham cinema. We moved to 7 Wynlie Gardens, Pinner Green just before the war and you could ...see more
We used to go as a family to the Tea Room which, if memory serves, was called 'Cornerways' for Sunday lunch, as a special treat in the fifties. My father took me to a wine tasting held in the cellar at the Queen's Head in the sixties. A combination of youth and too much 'tasting' - my first hangover! Memories of the annual fair; the roundabout in front of, I think, Woolworths ...see more
I lived around the corner from The Victory Pub in the High St. Arthur was the Landlord.
I worked (temporarily) for a car hire firm up the road known as Modern Travel.
I was madly in love with the daughter of the Bell Pub at Pinner Green, where I worked part time as a barman. We were lovers for a year (me for an eternity still aged 77).
If I live long enough I may write my fantastic life story for insomniacs, I just need encouragement:-)
Imagine the street devoid of (and indeed closed to) motor traffic and crammed from side to side, and as far as the eye could see, with fairground amusements, stalls and masses of people. That was Pinner Fair. I may be wrong, but I fancy that the dogems used to be about where the double decker bus is.