Harlow, Market House c.1955
Photo ref: H22036
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Photo ref: H22036
Photo of Harlow, Market House c.1955

A Selection of Memories from Harlow

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Harlow

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I used to spend many an hour in Startime with headphones on listening to what was new. In 69 I went there on my dinnertime from Gilbey's to buy the new Stones album Let It Bleed. There was a queue right round the Market Square doing the same thing. Unbelievable but I got a copy. And I used my paper round money in about 63 to buy a 5 speed racer from Blakes. It was 5 bob a week total cost £16 which was quite a bit then as my dad was on about a fiver a week
In the extreme mid right of the photo one can see the gates to the firm where I did my apprenticeship almost 60 years ago. I wish I had some photos of the firm itself. Brings back many happy memories.
I went to old Harlow College during the war. I remember walking across the fields to Harlow Mill where us boys used to swim. It was a very strict college with prefects. It was run on the style of the Cambridge University. I was what they called a fag ie I looked after one of the prefix. We had a tuckshop in the playground I was not a border because I lived at Thornwood Epping A place called ...see more
I was born in 1956 at number 63 Churchfields, close to the Old Town of Harlow. When I was 4 or 5 years old we moved to a Masonite in Mark Hall Moors, number 92. my first school was St. Albans near The stow and next to Our Lady Of Fatima Church. After my younger brother was born in 1963 we moved to 71 Hollyfields (Which was in the newest part of Harlow at the time.) and my older brother and I went to Jerounds school ...see more