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War Years In High Barnet / Family Connections
A Memory of High Barnet.
I was born in 1932. My father was William (Bill) Cowley, and my grandfather had a coal merchants business, 'Cowley & Sons'. The photograph of Barnet High Street c1955 brought back many happy memories - I well remember Eastwells near the junction with St Albans Road, the Red Lion Hotel, Timothy Whites, Sainsbury's, and Hudson Brothers, on the corner of Moxon Street, where I lived, with many members of the Cowley family until 1940.
We were 'bombed out' on the 16th September 1940, my father's 34th birthday, and we went to live with my aunt at her house in Marriott Road, until we found another house, months later in May's Lane. The war years were a hard time for everyone trying to carry on 'as usual' which was very difficult to do.
I still look back on my early life in Barnet fondly, it has changed so much now but still means a lot to me.
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I attended Whitings Hill School too and was head girl in my final year!
I remember playing in the fields mentioned, and was very upset when the houses were built on the fields.
I went on to attend Hatfield technical Grammar School and left Barnet in about 1968 as our family lived with our granny and had to move out when she died.
Very fond memories of growing up in Barnet.