Wealdstone, Whitefriars Primary School, Whitefriars Avenue 1960
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A Selection of Memories from Wealdstone

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Wealdstone

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Does anyone remember Bamatres Cycle Shop? It was on the right, literally just before you went over the bridge to Harrow and Wealdstone station? My brother worked there in the early fifties prior to being conscripted into the RAF. If anyone has an old photo of the shop, I would love to see it. If I remember rightly, there was a huge picture on the back wall of a chap on a bicycle being pursued by a lion. Happy memories of early London life. Richard Osler
I attended The Bridge Infants and Junior School from 1947 and vividly remember that in the Infants playground on the banking at the rear, a crashed warplane, which I always assumed was a Spitfire. I realise it was likely to have been a German plane. Does anyone remember it sticking out of the soil of the banking ? Another Memory was being told to write with my right hand like everyone else in ...see more
First i must tell another story when Charlie Chaplin and Sidney lived with my Grandfather Charlie Ssampson in 23 King Street Gillingham Kent.Coly Goodman American Bought the Gem bottom of King Street in 1909 ,,Needed a Caretaker and Young Girl's to Show People to there Seats,my Grandfather Charlie Sampson Waiting to go into Chatham Dockyard took on the Job,first the Karno Group Came Coly Chose from the Gang ...see more
The cinema was called the Herga.