Osterly Park View Road

A Memory of Hanwell.

I remember the Slatter twins who were in my class at St Marks (Robert and John). The Davis shop in the road. Watching my mother buy bacon and seeing it sliced as Mr or Mrs Davis turned the handle on the machine. As you went in the door there was a big fridge on the right and rows of sweet bottles on the left. The laundry opposite where the Slatters dad worked. At the bottom was a large off licence. People could even get a jug of beer. You entered a door on the right and there was a huge counter. Norman Piper whom I knew from St Marks and Bordeston schools lived in the road, as did Kenneth Kennerson. The fifties were a time with a very strong feel to them. Of course as children we did not realise about the war that had not long been finished.

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