Nostalgic memories of Perivale's local history
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Displaying Memories 21 - 30 of 35 in total
I lived in Lynmouth Gardens. Names I remember:- Mrs. Hutchings, Head of Perivale Primary School.
Charlie Nevill, Head of the Junior school with his green sports car. Crystal Andrews who regularly showed us her green knickers. Robin and Colin White with Joey Kingston. Malcolm Tucker, Peter Mantrip, Michael Woodington, Robert Benett, David Patchet, Alan Graves, whose little brother Billy disappeared and ...see more
I worked at a textile mill called Sewing Silks in Perivale Avenue from 1957 to 1960, the compnay had been a German one until the Second World War when it was taken over by an Austrian manager whose son was an RAF ace I believe. It was one of the happiest time in my short working life before I left for Adelaide South Australia. I was very much in love with a another employeee called Silver who lived in the Greenford or ...see more
On my way to school one morning in possibly 1944 there was the body of a woman in the river Brent where we crossed by the footbridge at the church. She was lying face down, motionless and her hat and handbag were on the bank. There was a policeman on watch and he told me to "Go on son you don't need to see that".
I often wondered why she had apparently taken her own life. In 1944 the world was full of problems for so many people.
I lived at 7 Haven Green but in the year 1965 we moved to Switzerland. Now I am searching for people who knew us.
My father's name was Peter J. W. Benning and my mother was called Margaret Benning - Bryan - Lambert (she was Argentinian). Whatever name she exactly uesd at that time, I do not know unfortunately. I have a brother born in 1956 named Jeremy and a sister born 1963 ...see more
I lived at 91 Bilton Road right opposite Elliot Godfrey, chemist. I used to walk up to Tommy Dodds the sweet shop, and also Lauders, another sweet shop. My nan used to work at Pains & Burns in Perivale, my dad worked at J Davy in Wembley and my other nan and grandad owned the bakery in Wembley opposite the indoor market. My brother and I went to Perivale School down Sarsfield Road, where my nan and ...see more
I did my midwifery training at Perivale Maternity Hospital, 1981/82. It was a lovely little hospital with two post-natal wards, one ante-natal ward, a delivery suite and out-patients. I did my community placement in Southall, we lived in a huge old house next to the cemetry when we were on-call at night. Most of our lectures were on-site but for some we travelled down to Hillingdon hospital . What a friendly hospital Perivale was, everyone knew each other. So sad when it closed down.
I was born July 1932 and moved to Perivale new housing estate developed by Percy Bilton in 1935, the name Bilton Road after him. The housing side was built by Taylor Woodrow and to my knowledge the same for Medway Parade. Ref to Alan Grose letter.
I well remember the landmine, we use to play on the bomb site after school. I remember Reggie Eels from Selborne School who lived in the first block of houses ...see more
Wow, I was looking at the pictures of Bilton Road, and it's good to see the newsagents, Martin's is still there. The Maternity Hospital, I can confirm was on Stockdove Way at the junction of Perivale Lane and Argyle Road, I still remember seeing the signs for it.
I was born on 24 September 1937 when my parents were living at No 54 Medway Drive, Perivale, Greenford. I thought I was born in a maternity hospital ( possibly Perivale Maternity Hospital, but no records now exist for this hospital) but my birth certificate shows me being born at home, so maybe I was. Apparently we moved into Medway Drive soon after the houses were finished being built at the end of 1936. I ...see more
I too was born at the Perivale maternity hospital in 1949, and at the time we lived in a prefab at Gurnell Grove somewhere near Cuckoo Hill I think, if anyone has photos of these prefabs perhaps you could email me one on: john.nicholls@sky.com. The hospital is no longer there and they have built houses on the site now. I'm not sure when this happened but I think it was in the late 1980ss. If anybody ...see more