Southall High Street

A Memory of Southall.

I was born in Hammond Road in 1948. We lived next door to my grandparents who kept chickens in the garden, next to the air raid shelter we used as a play house.
My grandad used to have a large allotment at the rear of the old Barn Mission, we spent many an hour planting veg & flowers. Then when I was eight we woke to the sound of diggers, only to find our beloved veg dug up and flowers trampled, all without warning to my grandfather. It was a change in an era. After months of building came Woolworth. I used to wander around the store imagining where my flowers would be growing. This was the start of progress, but at what expense?