Barn Hill Pond

A Memory of Wembley Park.

Myself and friends used the pond and Barn Hill a lot in the early fifties. I remember the row of poplar trees running up to the pond from Fryent Way. We mostly seemed to use the Kingsbury side of the Hill for our various activities, none of which I can really bring to mind, but the pond played a crucial part. The biggest excitement was when the snow fell, and we could take our sledges (home made) up to the pond, and then sledge down the fairly steep slope to the farmland fence at the bottom of the hill; there would be a lot of families using this opportunity to make use of the snow.