Uxbridge, The Gardens, Cross Street c.1950
Photo ref:
U52010
Photo ref:
U52010
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Memories of Uxbridge, the Gardens, Cross Street c1950
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One of the things i remember about the old Cross Street was there was an entrance off it to the back of the Express Dairy. In the days of horse drawn Milk Carts they had their stables here and my Great Uncle Ernie worked there as the groom in charge of the horses. He was a countryman by birth and worked there until he retired.
I am puzzled as to which year this photo was taken. It must have been very late fifties because my earliest memory of The Rest Garden, as we called it, was when it was still recognizeable as a graveyard. The gravestones (many of them) still stood surrounded by long grass although many of them unreadable. There were no organized flower beds but in the spring it was one mass of daffodils. The gateway, on the ...see more
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