It’s Been A Long Time Away

I also used to go to the Odeon Cinema for the Saturday Morning pictures. At the time the sweet shop was called Maynards and during the War there was only pictures of sweets in the window. I went to Welldon Park School nearby when Head was Mr Goodhead. This would be from 1944 onwards. There used to be a Funeral Directors in the Northolt Road near the Odeon and in the Autumn the shop people used to sell us apples from their garden for 1d each before we went to school or to the pictures. Opposite the Odeon there used to be a place where you could take your old newspapers to be weighed for money. Just into Corbins Lane there was a large house that belonged to Mrs and Miss Parnell. They used to run a nursery school in there and also used to teach tap and ballet after school. Further up the Northolt Road towards the station on the other side there used to be a pet shop where we used to buy food for my Gran's chickens. On the corner of Eastcote Lane there was a Woolworths and under the railway arches there was the Market. Here they sold vegetables and there used to be a large lamp where you could see baby chickens hatch. Opposite there was a Sainsbury's where they would cut your butter ration and pat it into shape before wrapping it in paper. They also had a wire cutter to take a small lump off a huge cheese. At the time I lived in South Harrow my name was Barbara Jones and I lived in Park Lane backing onto Alexander Park.