Nostalgic memories of Harold Hill's local history
Share your own memories of Harold Hill and read what others have said
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.
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Displaying Memories 21 - 30 of 62 in total
I was born in Askern Yorkshire in 1945. When I was 2.1/2 we moved to Bow
That was where my dad came from. When I was 5 we moved to Myrtle Road
Harold Hill. The buses ended outside our Prefab. After coming up Straight Road, the bus turned right into Briar Road the left into Waverley Crescent, then left to Myrtle Road and stood outside our Prefab, no 6. I started at Hilldene Infants School in 1950. The Headmaster was ...see more
I grew up in Noak Hill, living on the caravan site (Cummings Hall Lane) that was behind the Bear Pub on Noak Hill Road. There was a big long lane that ran up alongside the pub and I would sneak down there and through a gap in the fence, into the pub garden and sit on a swing, watching the REAL Bear in his cage. Nobody believes me when I tell them this ... of course, it seems unbelievable now but he was chained up, ...see more
My name is Johnie Wettner, born in Leanington Road in 1955. I have great memories with my friends on the manner the Gaters, the Godfrey, the Greens, the Heinz, Hookings, Gunter's and my good friends Chris James and anyone else I might of forgot.
My memories will stay with me for ever and I'd like to do everything all over again.
Some places that stand out are
The manor
Dycotts
Harold fields.
Saxon king ...see more
We moved to Wickford Drive from Islington when I was 4 years old. Loved our house and living on Harold Hill! Had a dog called Sandy who was a real tramp but loved him to bits! Went to Dycourts and then Harrowfields Girls. Girls I knew were Carol Hill, Jennifer Smith, Sue Thompson, Grace Davis and Michelle Mills. Found the Shack for dancing next to the Police Station and was friends with Carol McAngus, ...see more
Hi also remember school life on Harold hill went to Senior school Kathy Kemp Linda cousins and junior school Sylvia lived in gooshays drive with two brothers and two sisters thanks for the great memories Barry Williams
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I have happy memories of living in one of the prefabs which were very up to date for that time as they included a fridge! I moved from London when I was 6 weeks old with my parents and my sister, Gloria, who was 7. We moved into 28 Marigold Close which backed onto open land as Hilldene had not been built. The prefabs were built around a green on which we all spent happy hours playing games. I attended ...see more
Some names have come flooding back after reading memories of Harold Hill and I wonder if they mean anything to anybody? Would love to hear from anybody.
Alan Tremain
Brenda Lovering
Brenda Sellwood
David Gunther
Yvette Carruthers
David Watts
Eddie Slater
Vic Slater
Ray Phipps
Harry Blackburn
Alan Drake
Tommy Brien
Graham Furnival
David Head - last heard in Australia
Marion Thorpe
I was 2½ when my parents Sam and Gwen Barrow moved from Greenwich with myself and my sister (6months) into No1 Tiverton Grove. It was on the coner with Bedale Road and had been my Nan's house. I used to ride my trike around the green opposite where there were large trees. When I was 5 I went to the infants school in Tamworth Road, now its houses so cannot fine any pictures. Names I remember from the ...see more
Greetings all you Harold Hillians, today is Sunday 17 January 2016. 70 years ago, I will have been one of the 5,362 - from 13,687 recorded births in the first week of March 1946 - who became guinea pigs for the National Survey for Health and Development which monitored and catalogued the health and wellbeing of the nation.
See: ...see more
I Lived in Broseley Road and was a bit of a tomboy. My best friend was Jimmy Reynolds who went to Harrowfields, which made me a bit of a traitor as I was a Quarles Schoolgirl. My best girlfriend was Vivienne Davis who went on to have many problems after getting pregnant at 16, very rare in those days. My first kiss was with Patrick Knowles, every man I went out with in adulthood had to match up to that!!! ...see more