Southall 1950's

A Memory of Southall.

My father and my uncle had their shops on South Road. I used to visit on a Saturday morning. There was a small cafe a few doors away where a variety of drinks was served and where my father used to enjoy a Bovril- I expect that I had one of the favourite drinks of the day, a Horlicks as I tasted the Bovril once and did not like it! The National Provincial Bank was located at the junction with The Broadway, next to Burtons Outfitters; Cogswells Seed and Garden Merchants were further along South Road. Southall in 1910 had been a small country town with its own blacksmith, and it was here in leafy Townsend Road that my family lived !