Hatch End, Broadway 1964
Photo ref: H404068
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Memories of Hatch End, Broadway 1964

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Hatch End, Broadway 1964

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In the middle of this picture is a bus stop where the London Transport red double-deckers on routes 98B and 209 stop. Both routes ran to Pinner in a westerly direction and I would stand at this stop many hundreds of times between 1956 and 1963 to catch the 209 bus to Pinner Grammar School - often with my schoolfriend Roger Gilbert. The trees shown in this photo are still there, but now fully grown!
I bought my favourite car in Hatch End from the Cornwall Garage in 1970. It is on the right of this view beyond the row of shops and the crossroads of Uxbridge Road and Cornwall Road.  It was a 1966 Triumph Spitfire, pale blue with two black "racing stripes" up the long bonnet over the hard top and down the boot!  It cost me all of £465 in April 1970. I rather ...see more