Early Days.
A Memory of Cricklewood.
I was born in1942 at a maternity home in Honeypot Lane and came home to Heber Road in Cricklewood. My parents worked at the big Smiths factory at the top of Temple Road.
I went Mora Road school , one of the teachers called Miss Gibbs also taught my Mum in the 1920s.
We shopped locally in the Broadway . Jackman's the greengrocers as well as the market stall which went on for many years. I remember seeing and queuing for the first banana I'd even seen there. Sainsbury's and Woolworths too. Bought fish and chips with cracking from the back of the fishmongers and cockles and winkles as well as a pint of prawns for Sunday Tea from a stall outside The Crown Pub.
I tried roller skating at the place next to the Galtimore dancehall but fell over and gave up.
Went to the Queens cinema for Saturday morning pictures and with a school party to see the colour film of the coronation. Went swimming in the pool in Gladstone park and tea afterwards at the lovely house by the rose garden .
I've lived in France for nearly 30 years now, but I'll always be that girl from Cricklewood in my heart
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