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Kingsbury, Station Parade, Kingsbury Road c.1950
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It has to be said that Kingsbury is an area of contrasts. Hardly a stone's throw away from Kingsbury Road is Slough Lane and its environs, where Ernest G Trobridge's timber and thatch houses are grouped most picturesquely. A pioneer in the use of green elm, Trobridge experimented with this patented building system, but with a singular lack of success. Back in more mundane Kingsbury Road, Station Parade, with its paper-thin symmetry and air of parsimony sets the mercenariness of suburban development before us.

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Memories of Kingsbury, Station Parade, Kingsbury Road c1950

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. These memories are of Kingsbury, Station Parade, Kingsbury Road c.1950

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Hi Geoffrey Schwalbe! I've only just discovered this Site. I think we were in the same class at Glenwood School from 1954 to 1956. Teachers I recall were: Headmistress Doris Anderson, Mr Dyde, also Freeman, Marsh and Vallum. Boys in the class were Billy Course, Leon Appleberg, Tony Thorne, David Green, Brian Swain, Raymond Little, Derek Allen, Alan Cakebread, John Smithson, Robert Laidlaw, Colin Lisle, Alan ...see more
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Added 07 March 2016

Memories Never Fade Only Names To People's Faces
I have many memories of Kingsbury. I was born in Kingsbury in 1955 and lived in Dorchester Way which backed onto the side of the then fire station. I attended St Bernadette's school off the Kenton Road. After recently looking at Kingsbury on Google earth I was pleased to see that not all had changed in Kingsbury having moved away in 1966. My memories of Kingsbury are the fields ...see more
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I lived in Woodland Close throughout my childhood and started at Kingsbury Green Primary School in 1959. The classrooms were brightly painted, and the smells of plasticine, paints, crayons, pink (carbolic) soap and school dinners pervaded everything. The pathways via Old Kenton lane and Slough Lane seemed endless, and I used to pick up acorn cups on my way into the classroom. Mrs. Wren was the Head Teacher at ...see more
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Kingsbury Swimming Pool
I remember queuing outside the pool for what felt like hours on a hot summer's day. The price to get in went as low as 1d -  or am I mistaken? We used to climb up a drainpipe at the back of the pool to get in, not to save money but to beat the queue. I remember the wet slimy discarded paper tickets that were on the floor in the mens' changing area, also the safety pin with a small piece of material with a ...see more
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