Saturday Morning Pictures

A Memory of South Harrow.

I remember me and my brothers were all dropped off at the Cinema in South Harrow on a Saturday morning. It used to be early, so we could go in the sweet shop to get all our sweets. You could get four sweets for a penny. We used to be given sixpence each somgotmquite a few sweets. Our parents used to do the food shopping across the road. I seem to remember there was a Fine Fare shop. There was big metal boxes containing broken biscuits. In the pictures, we used to watch either Abbott and Costello or Three Stooges before the main feature. I have such find memories of South Harrow as my Nan and Grandad lived near the train station and their back garden faced onto the big park. We lived in Northolt on the racecourse estate. My Mum and me used to get the bus into South Harrow or Harrow. If it was nice weather, we would walk to the parade of shops in South Harrow. I went to school in Northolt, first at Down Manor and then Walford High School. I left in 1977 and got my first job at Taylor Woodrow near Greenford. I had a saturday job before I left school at KShoes and served two famous stars Kenneth Conor and Dick Emery. We had to fit shoes to the customer back in those days. I used to drink in several pubs, one was the Target and the other was the Plough near Northolt Station. I worked in that pub and they used to have a club too.