Valentines Park Ilford Gants Hill

A Memory of Ilford.

Hi there.

I'll always have fond memories of Valentines Park, those beautiful swans and Canadian cygnets at the Cranbrook Road end, Gants Hill Odeon, library, the bird cage in Valentines Park, the boat lakes, the brass band on a Sunday afternoon in Valentines Park, Valentines Park lido, walking down Ley Street, Plesseys and those yearly Guy Fawkes nights with their perennial cartoons before the fireworks.

My second book No Joe Bloggs is now available at Amazon and Waterstones online market place. No Joe Bloggs is my memoir, funny, moving, warmly nostalgic about the 1950s, 60s and 70s and richly lyrical about lovely Ilford, Gants Hill and Newbury Park, London, the West End, East End and the world.

Thanks

Joe Morris


Added 16 July 2015

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I was brought up in Wards Road West, Ilford from 1942 and didn't leave until I had three children in 1968. Went to Downshall Infants and Primary and then Beal Grammar for Girls. The photo of the Market in Ilford Lane triggered a vague memory of my mum taking me to see Roy Rodgers. Can anyone confirm this? Be good to share memories of anyone reading this

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