Ive's Paper Shop

Bryan Ives was one of my best friends at Southall Grammar School. Sadly, I lost touch with him when my family moved to Manchester in 1951

I new the junction pub very well as it was owned by relatives of mine back in the sixties.
I grew up in southall and attended Beconsfield Infants and Junior school and then went to Dormers wells.
I remember sitting outside the pub with my parents on a Sunday afternoon or early evening during what seemed to be lovely summers.
Oh childhood memories....
j.cordery

i lived in southall in the sixties we lived in gordon road then we moved to josephs drive,i went to clifton road school and then i went to featherstone school i started their in the first year when the school first opened,i had two paper rounds morning and evening the shop was in kings street,there was a fantastic fishing tackle shop nearby i spent most of my time fishing at the canal or osterly park,most of my family including me worked at the aec.

they were great times i had a good mate ian beale he lived at adelaide road and a nother good mate malcom sole he lived opposite me down gordon road dont no what happened to them when i moved to suffolk there were other friend the holloways in gordon road.then there was jimmy phillips he lived near the canal lock, he wrapped himself round a lamp post on the junction cross roads on bsa c10 killed himself, barry evans

Re your comment Barry: I have just had a look at my fibreglass fishing rod, bought in King St., Southall in about 1957. It's marked Supplied by Devanneys:The Fishing Tackle Specialists,53 King Street, Southall, Middx., Tel SOU 2830. I used to walk there on the way home from junior school St Anselms and get my bait, then get on the 232 bus stop almost outside the shop, back home to Heston

oh and the only place I fished was Osterley Parks lake