Kingsbury, Entrance To Swimming Pool c.1950
Photo ref: K142007
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A Selection of Memories from Kingsbury

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 Kingsbury

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Has been good reading memories of your time at Tylers and especially the 100year anniversary weekend. I attended fom Sept. 1957 throught to 1962 and many have mentioned the teachers, some with positive views, some slighty negative. Have not found any of my classmates, Geoff Kemp, Mike Cochrane, Micheal Szasz, listed on pages.
I started off in Roe Green Village, all through the War years, I did National Service in Singapore from 1952 to 1954, married my childhood sweetheart Jean Wilson in 1955 she was head girl at Claremont Secondary School in Kenton in the late forties. We left Kingsbury in 1974 and moved to Hertfordshire. I am surprised not more mentioned of Roe Green Village in the memories as it celebrated its ...see more
Does any 'old codger' who lives locally remember the name of this shop? We moved into the area, just before The Queen's Coronation, the first residents in the newly built block of flats on The Mall, next door to the fire station. Every sunday, there were queues out of the door, it was the only shop open for groceries and it too, closed at 1.00PM. For some reason, my parents always ...see more
This pub was around until about 2004. It is now a Tesco Express.......like we haven't got enough of those already!!