Kilburn, The White Horse c.1955
Photo ref: K68005
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Photo ref: K68005
Photo of Kilburn, The White Horse c.1955

A Selection of Memories from Kilburn

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 Kilburn

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I lived here 45-47 myParents had the fish and chip shop and furniture store. I remember the twins next door, Ruth and faith who used to come over and we would eat scrump in the bomb shelter in the back yard area. Went to Surrey Street School and my uncle Bill operated the pub down the street. Emigrated to Canada in 1948.
HI I am tracing my family history and trying to find out about Joseph pollard, he was a farmer in Kilburn and died at Kilburn Hall in 1804, I wondered if anyone knew anything about the hall of the history of it Many thanks Dawn
I lived at 68 Albert Road from about 1953 until they knocked the street down and we all moved up to the flats at the top of the road. It was a great place to be a kid, we still had the bomb site at the back of the gardens in between Albert and Denmark Road. We lived just opposite the pub and the dairy, Lionel ran the dairy for years. The Smiths, Terry and Tony lived next door to us and the Creans and Smoulders lived ...see more
My name is Brian Scott, I lived at number 76 Albert Road during the period 1950-59. Next door to us lived the Beardons, opposite lived the Smiths and the Tylers, next to them the Deveraux. On the next street down lived the Boggins. I also had friends in Charlton House (built after a doodlebug flattened the previous houses). When I left 76 Albert Road in 1959, the doors and walls were still cracked following the ...see more