The Walk To School

A Memory of Wembley.

I grew up in Wembley Park in the 1950s and went to St Christopher's School down Wembley Park Drive. The parade of shops on Forty Avenue by the traffic lights at the top of Bridge Road had everything you basically needed: a bread shop, fishmongers, small Sainsbury's, post office, newsagent and ironmongers. The toy shop sold plastic farm animals; if you wanted to buy one the shopkeeper opened a small cardboard box containing several of the same figure and took one out for you. The Torch pub stood on the corner and there were plenty more shops down Bridge Road and Wembley Park Drive, including one selling the American Dell and DC horror comics such as Superman and Batman (I'm sorry to say that the ones I bought were given away years later).

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Do not forget the wine merchants Gilbert Reeves l cannot as l rode the delivery bike ,Barnhill is quite steep on a bike loaded with wine and beer,used to have lunch break in that cafe in picture on corner of Chalkhill Rd ,1962 approx

By rvspruce on Thu Mar 9th 2017, at 8:48 pm

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I was born in Wembley in the 1940s & educated at Copeland School, (which I hated), along with my 2 sisters. I have lots of memories to share but for now I wonder if anyone remembers a fish shop, possibly fish/chips as against wet fish, being in Wembley during WWII. This shop was run by a family surname Marsh, although I don't know the name of the shop itself. I am trying to help someone doing family research & she has traced this family from Folkestone to a fish shop in Wembley. I was born in 1948 & have no knowledge of it, although my mum remembers having fish & chips during the war, she can't, for certain, confirm just where in Wembley it was. Any memories anyone please?

By flindog on Sat Dec 29th 2018, at 9:01 am

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I was brought up on Barn Hill 1961-1975 and this is a wonderfully evocative photo. Amongst the independent shops on the right was a shop my mother went to for coffee beans and another one selling fabrics for curtains and furnishings. There was a shop at the end next to The Torch pub called TV Radio selling electrical consumer goods.

By Nigel Davies on Sat Dec 3rd 2022, at 9:20 pm

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