Childhood In Ealing And Thereabouts!

A Memory of Ealing.

Although I wasn't born in the Borough I spent quite a lot of time in the district.  I also attended St Anne's Convent, Little Ealing Lane, from the age of 5 to 16 and from there went on to Pitmans College in Ealing Broadway. My much older sister was married in the beautiful Church of England church there in 1951. I remember Saturday morning shopping which included a necessity to queue for lovely bread at 'Parkers', I think it was called, but I am not totally sure. I also learnt to drive in Ealing and passed my test at 17 years of age in rush-hour traffic at 8.30 a.m. which I thought was quite a feat!
I emigrated in 1961 to New Zealand and married a fellow Londoner and we have been in our lovely, adopted country for nearly 50 years. However, the fond memories of 'Home' as it was then are never far from our thoughts.  Gwynne Tilly, nee McBride.