Ealing Broadway Grange School Bentalls Etc

A Memory of Ealing.

I was born in 1946 in a private maternity home near Walpole Park and the awful King Edwards hospital. I lived at 70 Gordon Road until I married (Haven Green) and migrated to Australia in 1970. I attended Grange school from Infants to leaving in 1962. I walked home via Walpole Park (in the summer) for lunch which was usually a tin of Heinz Tomato soup and digestive biscuits with butter. I played with the fmily dog named after Don Bradman's our cocker spaniel in the back garden and then walked back to Grange School - no wonder I was skinny! I shopped at Bentalls, Saunders, Abernethies, drank at the Drayton and the Royal Oak and Haven Green pubs...I went to the Ealing Club and saw The Rolling Stones perform 'Come On' their first huge hit when I was about 17 - I knew I was witnessing something very special! Happy to provide more memories... Sue Bird

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I was born in 1943 Sue. My name Barbara Evans. Had a reunion held in the Royal Oak about 6 years ago. A lot of old friends attended - hadn't seen each other for 50 years...... I remember all the places you mention,. I only attended the girls school at Grange. My previous years were at Little Ealing School.

By Barbara Crawford on Thu Aug 20th 2015, at 4:17 pm

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Hi Barbara
I thought that the Royal Oak in Ealing Broadway was destroyed for M&S shop in the 70s?
Can you enlighten me?

Sue Howar (Bird) lived in Gordon Road Ealing.

By Sue Howard on Sat Aug 22nd 2015, at 8:31 am

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Hi Sue, The Royal Oak I am speaking of was in South Ealing, by St. Mary's Church and Grange School.

By Barbara Crawford on Mon Sep 14th 2015, at 2:25 pm

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Hi I worked at Bentalls in the 1970s and met Tiny Rowland, you know the one who was pipped at the post for the bid for Harrods. I went to Ealing girls grammar school in the 70's. which later became Ellen Wilkinson High School. I lived in Elm Avenue for a while opposite Ealing Common.
I love hearing memories of Ealing.

Denise Baxter (nee Smith) Cheshire. England.

By poppies123 on Tue Oct 30th 2018, at 2:44 am

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M and S was on the site of John Sanders former deparent store

By Nick Beard on Fri Dec 14th 2018, at 5:29 pm

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I lived for a time at my grand parent’s house at 60 Gordon Road, next door to Dr Bradbrook and family, and remember the Ealing Club. Manfred Mann also played there.

By Mike Bird on Sun Jan 5th 2025, at 5:40 pm

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