Oldfield Lane Sainsbury's

Sainsbury's was built on the site of the Southern Electricity board. It was a beautiful building with steps leading up to the entrance it was very nearly a pleasure to go in to pay your electric account !!

Ian Hockney

Hi, thanks. I do not remember that at all. Sad to see the place now

As children, my sister and I loved jumping up and down those steps on the way home from school. Lived in Stanhope Park Road and went to Our Lady of the Visitation School. Played in Ravenor Park, feared the clinic next to the library as remember the inoculations we had there! Loved the library. Dr Weston had a surgery in a house with the green roof opposite the library. All a long time ago - anyone remember thr old Sainsburys with its mosaic floor and payment counter at the back? Pollards the hardware shop in old field lane and Lavelles sweet shop next door? The Litten Hotel? Lots of memories of a childhood in the 60s.

I remember both the Southern Electricity office in Oldfield Lane, as my Mum worked there and I used to shout up to her through the office window and I remember Sainsbury's on Ruislip Road, as I worked there as a Saturday boy. All individual counters for meat, groceries, dairy etc. and customers had to queue at one, then move on to the next. That was the cashiers office at the back. Each counter had it's own till and we used to have to work out the change given in good old pounds, shillings and pence.