The 221 Single Decker Bus From Pinner To Hatch End In The 1950''s

A Memory of Pinner.

In the early 1950s my mother would put me on a Metropolitan Line train at Baker Street and tell me to get off at Pinner Station and be met by my Auntie Dorrie.  Its amazing to think I was only 7 or 8 years old at the time!

This was around 1953, when I was living in Bexleyheath (at that time in Kent although now swallowed up in Greater London).  Auntie Dorrie and I would then catch an old pre-war single decker bus on route 221 that struggled up Pinner High Street and then rattled its way along Paines Lane towards the Uxbridge Road and Hatch End. We got off this bus at Woodhall Drive and walked to her home in Woodhall Gate. Do you know the fare was just a penny-ha'penny!!

I would love these trips from my home in Bexleyheath to stay with her in my school holidays. Pinner seemed to be a HUGE place seen through a young boy's eyes!