Wembley, Park, Bridge Road c.1960
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Photo of Wembley, Park, Bridge Road c.1960

Memories of Wembley, Park, Bridge Road c1960

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. These memories are of Wembley, Park, Bridge Road c.1960

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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 ...see more