Clifton Rd School

A Memory of Southall.

I lived at 42 Stratford Rd, upstairs in rented rooms. Below lived Mr Woodsell and his daughter Maureen. Opposite was Robert Hopkins, his dad was a carpenter, his mother taught piano. Along the road was the Mulkerns, Irish family and further down were the Ballads. We used to take peelings to Ballads for the chickens. When Mr Ballad died, his coffin was put in the front room. I went to the nursery in the recreation park, after to Clifton Road school. I remember Mr Kersley and Mr Rose. I sometimes was left in a house near the tube factory where the lady had a television and I saw muffin the mule. I fell off my little red bike in Stratford Road before my parents were home, a man found me knocked out, he might have been a window cleaner. I was later admitted to Hillingdon hospital with a fractured skull. Dr Moore sent me (Dr Moore was murdered later). Later I was under Dr Shepherd. I was in the lifeboys for a short while, but later the scouts in Adelaide Rd, the citadel. Salvation Army- I played bass euphoneum sort of. I was born 1942 in Slough. Now 71 but gradually failing with health probs. I now live in Hythe, Kent with my second wife Hazel. No children. Wife has one grown up boy. I can understand now the saying 'life is short', it seems like that now when the end is nearing. Perhaps someone out there was around the same places at the same time.