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Mill Hill, The Broadway c.1969
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Here we see an attractive group of sub-Arts and Crafts buildings with steeply-pitched roofs and tile-hung dormer windows over an open timber balcony. The shop front of W H Smith & Son is well-designed, and Barclay's Bank used a reticent, yet confident, typescript on their fascias. A precursor to the deterioration in town and village centre design is to be seen in the refenestration of the first floor to W H Smiths.

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A Selection of Memories from Mill Hill

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. Here are some from Mill Hill

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St. George's School, Flower Lane, Mill Hill, London, Nw7.
I too was a pupil at St. George's, probably from 1944 to certainly no later than 1950 when I was shipped off to a boarding school in Sussex where I remained until leaving at age 17 in 1956. I was fascinated to hear I was not the only 'lefty' to incur the wrath of the infamous Mrs. Smith. I was told her husband was a badly wounded WW1 veteran and allegedly met her in a hospital ...see more
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At St. George’s School
I was at St George’s School from 1943 - 1949 and I seem to be unique in my really happy time at the school. Mr Smith was very kind and gentle - he really hated having to take a ruler to my hand once - and yes Mrs Smith was really terrifying but I don’t ever remember being taught by her ? Maybe writing - when we dipped our pens into ink pots. Mrs Phillips was lovely and ran the school percussion orchestra - ...see more
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My Early School Years In Mill Hill 1943 1950
I have few memories of my primary school which was in a private house in Croft Close a turning off of Marsh Lane, but I do remember being very happy there. This was during the latter war years. However I had a very bad experience at the first private junior school I attended. This was St Georges in Flower Lane, Mill Hill Broadway in 1945 and my father was still in the army. The ...see more
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Moat Mount Youth Fc.
Not long after the completion of Worcester Crescent and Bedford Road, the construction of Ramillies Road I had acquired a large number of new friends, all boys. My parents had moved from Woodford Essex to 52 Worcester Crescent just before my first birthday and the outbreak of WW2 in 1939. The house was a new John Laings build. By the early 1950s my summers were taken up by playing Cricket for Mill Hill ...see more
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