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BURTONS UXBRIDGE
Me and my mates were at Burtons every Friday after 'Ready Steady Go' on TV. I met the love of my life there, but never worked out. I still have great memories of that place, ??? Bennet and the Rebel Rousers, Brian Poole and the Tremeloes. It was a great place, even the woman on the door knew who was and who wasn't a member, and then there was RAF Club, Hammersmith Palais, and one of the best, that closed in the 1960s, The Ritz Kinsbury, driving to these places in my old Standard 12 (cost me 5 pounds and it worked, was taxed and tested), later in my Ford Zodiac or my friend's Studebaker Commander (1941 model), it even had air conditioning. Great time, I wish it could happen again.
Thos Were The Days
I have read all the letters and they have bought back so many memories. My sister and I were born in Hillingdon and from 1961 we used to go to Burtons dance hall on Tues, Friday and Saturday nights. We would also go to The Blue Moon club in Hayes on Wednesday nights (we were the mods) and to The White Hart, Southall and also the community centre there and sometimes the Twickenham Palais and Hammersmith Palais! On Saturday we would go to the record shop in Uxbridge to buy the latest 45 and to Manettas for clothes and to Bo-Claires for frothy coffee! and Uxbridge Station was a meeting place.....Uxbridge Swimming Pool, The Odeon, The Regal, The Savoy the Black Cat Cafe .......... Long Pointed Shoes. My sister and I worked at the American Base at West Ruislip we had a brilliant time.
A Step Back in Time
I was born in Denham village but brought to Rockingham Parade, Uxbridge when I was one year old. Windsor Street was my main walking route to the town, bus, railway station and the shops. Uxbridge was a lovely town to grow up in as in Rockingham Parade lived next to the entrance to the lovely Fasinage Park and the river Frays. I walked along the river to get to Whitehall primary and junior school and later to Greenway secondary school. There was a great choice of cinemas (3) although my favourite was the Odeon as I could walk to it either along the river or through the park. We regularly went to Uxbridge swimming pool which was not heated in those days! When I was old enough, I went to the dance hall above Burtons on Windsor Street and the Regal cinema had the Court School of Dancing after it ceased to show films. There was a great teacher there called Clive who was obviously gay and he was... Read more
Regal Cinema at Uxbridge.
We lived in posh Uxbridge from 1958-63, in those days it felt more like a village. My father Len was the Cinema Manager at the Regal. I was six when we first moved there and along with my sister Anne, one year younger, attended St Andrew's Infants School just across the not so busy road. We had a small but comfortable flat that went with the job actually inside the Regal Cinema, which was much bigger than it looked from the High Street. It was a great time for me, being the only boy my dad was my big hero and to see him dressed in a dinner suit and bow tie on special occasions such as when Cliff & The Shadows played, when he went on stage to announce the act and everybody applauded, I was very impressed. I remember my mother had a young couple as friends, Jill and Ray, who took me and my sister Anne for days out. I remember Ray had a bubble car that I thought... Read more
Memories of St. Margarets Church
Fond memories of St. Margarets Church in Uxbridge, Middx. My home was Harefield Road , Uxbridge. and we were married by the Rev: Bruce Eadie. He asked us to go to Westminster to obtain a special license because he had never married a foreigner before!! My maiden name was Reynolds. My husband Ray and I were married in November, 1952. Ray was a Sgt. in the USAF. We will be married 58 years this year. St. Marrgarets Church and surrounding area looks the same, brings back lovely memories.My dad was in the RAF stationed at Langley, Bucks during WW , used to ride his bike back and forth. We now live in Washington State, USA. Fond memories of going to the pictures, every Sunday afternoon at the Odeon with friends, Loved The Savoy and Regal too.
Few But Good Memories .
We lived in Uxbridge in the early 1960s. I used to go swiming at the swimming pool behind the college. The college had just been built and we went to St Andrew's COE School. The school was really old and we had a big iron fire-guard round the fire in the clasroom which was divided into two. I remember going to a big store in Uxbridge to see Father Christmas, and a green where witches were meant to be.
The Long Walk Home
I remember going to the Savoy Cinema that you can see on the corner of the High Street and Vine Street. This was about 1953, I was seven and went with my brother who was twelve. I had never been to the pictures without an adult before. I can’t remember the title of the film, but I know it had millions of ants on the move and eating everything in their path. There is a lock keeper who was supposed to open the lock gates to flood the area, but he’s fallen asleep so the ants eat him too... In the fifties this must have been a theme for films like this, for next week we saw the same story but with thousands of elephants on the march.
At this time my family had only recently moved to West Drayton, so the area was new to us. This day my brother and I had come to Uxbridge on the 223 bus which takes you up Falling Lane past the... Read more
Windsor Street
We lived in Uxbridge from 1968 when we married to 1993, we still have the book and remember Mrs Peddles shop on LHS, would you believe the old Police Station is now a bar?
