Nostalgic memories of Greenford's local history
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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.
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Displaying Memories 11 - 20 of 54 in total
My parents home was in Costons Avenue in Greenford, I was born there in 1937 and lived there for 30 years. The rear of our house looked out to trees which grew on the boundary of Perivale Park some eighty yards away across the “Little River Brent” and the allotments. On the far side of the park, on an embankment, the GWR Greenford Branch Line and Greenford Halt Station and hidden behind the embankment ...see more
It was on the opposite to the War Memorial at the top of Oldfield Lane,.always packed and noisy, great atmosphere. I definitely remember the Bartletts and the Digbys I went to school with some of them Carol Bartlett was in my class I think and Lorraine Digby too. Tesco is where the Granada Cinema used to be and I remember seeing the Rolling Stones there with my older sisters Pat & Jean in the days ...see more
I was raised at 63 millett rd Greenford and after the war moved to 1 eastmead ave Greenford I left there in 1955 moved to USA to Oregon.
Colin James
Lived there a good twenty years attended Bentham / costons / Stanhope schools loved the shopping area and youth clubs fantastic time to grow up. I would love to hear from others who did similar.
My name is Peter Simkins and I was born at 64 Runnymede Gardens on the Western Avenue in March 1939. My Mum and Dad had moved in after getting g married in 1938. We were living close to the Greenford Roundabout, the Bridge Hotel and South Greenford Halt station (whence I caught the 'push and pull' steam train to school in Ealing. We lived at Runnymede Gardens till 1958 and my brothers Geoff ...see more
Hi,I grew up in oldfield lane during the seventies but can not remember what type of building /shop was there before they built the sainsburys? Can anyone help??
hi my mother may joyce johns lived in greenford Jeymer drive, she had one older brother george and younger brother robert. I believe her parents ran a post office they were stanley and ida. My mother had a disability but everyone put it down to nerves in those days. If anyone remembers her please contact me she passed away late last year. regards her daughter .
i was born in perivale maternity hospital in 1944. i lived at 97 greenford road up till 1958. i attended stanhope infants, junior and senior school. i lived very near the play park opposite stanhope road. my mother worked at Coles toy shop near the cinema at greenford broadway. i well remember stanhope secondary school with MR Davies as head master. also Mr Elliot and Mr Bradley the french master. i was in 4b ...see more
As a teenager I did the family shopping in Greenford every Saturday and went to Lists for great bread and cakes. One of the ladies serving the bread became my brother's mother-in-law!
I was born in Perivale Maternity Hospital in 1955 and lived in the flats in Dabs Hill Lane, Northolt until I was 3. We then moved to Ferrymead Avenue in Greenford. It was a strange little bungalow on the corner of Eastmead Avenue and Ferrymead Avenue. The building had two doors that both opened directly on to the pavement of Eastmead Avenue (what was then the back door has now been removed but the step ...see more