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Message Number: 15 - Saturday, April 14, 2012 08:08:24 PDT
[IP = 81.152.233.51] -United Kingdom

Name:	Paul Starck
Which Area in the UK did you live?:	Sherwood Rd South Harrow
Are you still living in the same area?:	No
Are you in contact with old friends:	No
Do you have any Pets?:	Yes

Comments:

Love to hear from anyone with (detailed) memories of South Harrow Market. There's a book waiting to be written about it - surely!

Message Number: 14 - Sunday, February 12, 2012 09:25:02 PDT
[IP = 90.193.13.43] -United Kingdom

Name:	Ted Baker
Which Area in the UK did you live?:	Malvern Ave 1940 Till1968
Are you still living in the same area?:	No Ilkeston Derbyshire
Are you in contact with old friends:	No
Do you have any Pets?:	Dog

Comments:

I moved to South Harrow in 1940 from Fulham SW6 Aged 4 with my parents.

Went to R oxbourne Infants/Junior School,then to Eastcote lane can remember

quite some lengthy spells in wooden huts on front playground very close to the

road. After several jobs call to national service in Catering Corp demobbed

1957 .Went to work as a milkman with Express Dairys , Horse drawn floats

had finished about a month before then. Roads that i served over the course

of 24 years with a break of 2 years due to sickness. Somerville road, Field end

road, Holyrood ave,Torbay road,High worple all small closes off . Lynton Rd

parts of Kings rd,Lulworth Close and Gardens, Ravenswood cres,and many more

through out South Harrow Rayners Lane ,North Harrow,and Northolt.

I married Beryl in1961At NortholtVillage Church reception was at the Swan Pub

Had two children David & Helen.

Moved from Stiven cres early 1970:s to a new job as Caretaker of Weald First

& Middle School with the house in Whitegate Gardens . Retired from there in

1996 moved Ilkeston Derbyshire ,Had a very good time in Harrow area was

a member @Tithe Farm Social Club, & British Legion favourite places Rayners

Hotel ,Gum Tree cafe,Clay Pigeon, Where i met my WIFE.

Regards Ted Baker (might be known better as Edward)

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Message Number: 11 - Thursday, May 19, 2011 08:31:12 PDT
[IP = 212.44.32.5] -United Kingdom

Name:	Jim Bell
Which Area in the UK did you live?:	I Didn't
Are you still living in the same area?:	No
Are you in contact with old friends:	No
Do you have any Pets?:	No

Comments:

Many of your correspondents seem to mention the Odeon in South Harrow.

I was Manager there about 1970, although I only had digs in the area.

I have very fond memories of my time there, and the staff I recall...

Doreen...Sylvie...Pauline...Anne...Colin...Mel ...Vera....plus Jan who lived nearby and always popped in to see everybody.

Message Number: 10 - Monday, May 2, 2011 11:55:11 PDT
[IP = 86.179.2.224] -United Kingdom

Name:	arthur reeder
Which Area in the UK did you live?:	south harrow
Are you still living in the same area?:	no
Are you in contact with old friends:	yes
Do you have any Pets?:	yes 1 large dog

Comments:

Sorry we haven't been in touch for a while but we do get busy.

Great to see things are still progressing, although South Harrow isn't...just depressing. I don't think the bus lanes have helped either as it seems miles to the other side of the road now. I also noted the Post Office finally re-opened in a new location. What a shame the old one was allowed to fall..under dubious? circumstances. I didn't recognise any of the shops..apart from Gregs on my last visit, but at least Sainsbury was still there.I suppose the loss of Woolworths was always going to have an adverse effect on the place. What a shame and how to ruin a prosperous shopping centre in less than a generation.

Message Number: 9 - Sunday, May 1, 2011 22:35:41 PDT
[IP = 86.163.10.21] -United Kingdom

Name:	beatrice Holloway
Which Area in the UK did you live?:	South Ruislip
Are you still living in the same area?:	Yes
Are you in contact with old friends:	Yes
Do you have any Pets?:	No

Comments:

Well done Syd. What dedication and what a bonus from the past for all

EASTCOTE LANE scholars.

Message Number: 8 - Thursday, April 28, 2011 12:18:01 PDT
[IP = 90.193.193.65] -United Kingdom

Name:	Peter Corbett
Which Area in the UK did you live?:	Walton Avenue, South Harrow
Are you still living in the same area?:	no
Are you in contact with old friends:	yes
Do you have any Pets?:	no

Comments:

An excellent site which has brought back many happy memories. I was born on 7th May 1940 and lived my first 20 years in Walton Avenue. 10 years around Harrow and Stanmore,then moving a soft drinks factory from Ruislip to Durham City. After 32 years I retired and moved to Lincolnshire and then to Mansfield in Nottinghamshire.

Message Number: 7 - Tuesday, February 15, 2011 17:15:35 PST
[IP = 112.213.191.2] -Australia

Name:	derek eldridge
Which Area in the UK did you live?:	southharrow
Are you still living in the same area?:	no western australia
Are you in contact with old friends:	some
Do you have any Pets?:	fish

Comments:

this is a brilliant idea

Message Number: 6 - Friday, February 11, 2011 04:46:32 PST
[IP = 70.24.149.21] -Canada

Name:	Edwina
Which Area in the UK did you live?:	Alexandra Ave. Rayners Lane
Are you still living in the same area?:	No
Are you in contact with old friends:	Yes
Do you have any Pets?:	Yes a kitty

Comments:

My name is Edwina, and I lived above the fish and chip shop in Rayners Lane. My mum and dad worked in the Fish and chip shop. I went to Eastcote Lane and then sat for the scholarship from that school and then went to Sacred Heart Grammar School in Harrow Weald. Through Friends Re-united U.K. I have found two of my friends and we keep in contact. I left England in 1954 and came to live in Canada. Just recently I have heard about the death of one of my other friends that I went to school with.

I have a paragraph or two in the original/first book tht was written, and have also included a picture

Keep in touch Syd. Always good to know what is going on.

Huggers...........Edwina