1940s
A Memory of Colindale.
We moved into Colindale avenue in 1943 shortly after the tube station was bombed. My father was a guard on the northern line. I spent many happy days with my many friends playing in the police college grounds on the anti aircraft guns that were there. Together with my best friend Douglas who lived in Booth rd we wandered for hours in the "back". An area of waste land behind the lower part of the houses in lower Sheaveshill Avenue. When the hospital was hit by a V1 in July 1944 our house which was next door to the hospital entrance was badly damaged and we were evacuated. Dad had chickens in the back yard and together with his allotment we ate well despite severe rationing. He used the Anderson Air Raid shelter in the back garden for growing mushrooms.
I went to Hendon County Grammar School travelling to Hendon Central daily on the Underground.
They were carefree days despite the war and we walked,unafraid ,for miles around Hendon Aerodrome and the local parks.
I lived there until 1959 when, with my wife and family ( having married in 1955) we moved to Waltham Abbey before migrating to Australia in 1961.
Regards Brian Goodall.
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