Francklyn Gardens Edgware

I lived at 69 Francklyn Gardens from 1937, aged 4, to 1951 - John Weiss, no brothers or sisters. At 67 there was Mr Close, a widower and retired hairdresser, with his daughter (possibly named Joyce, but I'm not sure). Further down there was the Weisfeld family and next to them the Bogad family - I think the wives in each family were sisters, the Weisfeld children included David, the eldest, but I can't remember the younger ones, the Bogad children were Henry, the eldest, and two girls, Leila and Sylvie. At 41 (or 43) was a family with a boy named Ronnie, much the same age as me, and at 43 (or 45) a family with a son Harold, at least a year older. Opposite them was Mrs Armstrong from Ireland. More names might come to mind. I have a vague memory of someone in the printing business, a compositor, somewhere near no 63, possibly your father? I went to the temporary primary school at St Andrews Presbyterian Church as Broadfields School was still incomplete, and then for one year to Edgware School in the High Street until Broadfields was completed in 1942, where I was in the 2nd and 3rd forms until going on to another school in 1944.

Unfortunately I would have only been 4 in 1951 and I do not recall the all the names you mentioned but Weisfeld is familiar.
Yes, my father was a compositor !!
Our neighbours at 61 were Marianne & Gerald Bernett, Marianne still lives there.
At 65 were Reg & Phil Scarr.
At 71 or 73 was the Thornes with a son called Stewart who become a Taylor in Radlett.
I really only remember families that had children similar ages to us !

Sorry to have taken so long to come back to this website!
Did your father work mainly at nights? I think I recall not having much opportunity to talk to him, but his occupation interested me as I got interested in typesetting - I ran our school printing press from 1949 to 1951, and even though that was hand setting of cold type, for a treadle machine, I became very interested in the whole typesetting business and visited a few newspaper firms on guided tours, and realised what a skilled job that of a compositor was - I later did a great deal of typographic design though my formal training was as an architect.
The Thornes were at 73, a detached house, whereas ours at 69 was semi-d with 71, and for the moment I can't recall their name - a brother and sister living with their (old) parents. We all moved out of Francklyn Gardens to Harrowes Meade in 1951 when my grandmother came to live with us.
I remember knowing the Scarrs but can't fix any face to them.

Does any body remember Bernerd Lock and Daphne Fowler who lived in Wolmer Gardens about 1949

Terry Hughes

I lived at 35 hsrrowes Meade from 1940 till 1960. I knew families on my street and in Franklyn gardens. My single name was Sheila Goodwin, and I have a brother Stanley Goodwin.
Went to broadfields and Edgware secondary modern. Maybe we know people.
sheilae21@comcast.net

I lived at 35 hsrrowes Meade from 1940 till 1960. I knew families on my street and in Franklyn gardens. My single name was Sheila Goodwin, and I have a brother Stanley Goodwin.
Went to broadfields and Edgware secondary modern. Maybe we know people.
sheilae21@comcast.net

I lived at 35 hsrrowes Meade from 1940 till 1960. I knew families on my street and in Franklyn gardens. My single name was Sheila Goodwin, and I have a brother Stanley Goodwin.
Went to broadfields and Edgware secondary modern. Maybe we know people.
sheilae21@comcast.net