Ickenham, Swakeleys House c.1965
Photo ref:
I59013
Photo ref:
I59013
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Sir Edmund Wright, sometime Lord Mayor of London, built this lovely Jacobean house. A later owner, Sir Robert Vyner, notoriously cooked one of his deceased servants, displaying the corpse in an open coffin to visitors - a macabre spectacle that delighted Samuel Pepys, who recorded the event in his diary.
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A Selection of Memories from Ickenham
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 Ickenham
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This view of Glebe Avenue has special memories for me...the grey 1964 Hillman Imp in the photograph is MY car...purchased for the princely some of £240.00 from Mr Smith the owner of Kolodek where I worked for a while from the day after I left Vyners Grammar. The Bedford CA van behind my car was owned by Mr Vasey who ran the green grocers next to Kolodek... The little Hillman was a good enough car for me to use ...see more
We moved to Ickenham in 1950, I was three, we lived in Greenacres Avenue, only partially completed then, a cowfield next to our house to where Breakspear Road South is now, St George's Drive was not built. We could see the GWR from our front bedroom.
Attended Breakspear Primary School, walked there daily across the River Pinn via Copthall Road West.
Had a wonderful childhood, special memories of the ...see more
..or 1959 to 1964
The other grocers on that parade may have been the DeHond family, I think that they originated in Belgium? A very pleasant, kindly, hardworking family. I used to help out by driving their deliveries in their little Austin A35 van to their customers in the village.
I still miss Ickenham, very, very much !
I worked at the Bakery for about two years, this was my second job after leaving school, which was the Bishop Ramsey Church of England School which opened in 1980 taking over Ruislip Manor and St Martins C.O.E school that was in West Drayton Middlesex.
The Bakery was in the rear of the cafe and I was the pastry cook, making apple turnovers and cream cakes for the customers. The owner, a Mr Alf Carter, a grey haired ...see more
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