Norwood Green, The Green c.1955
Photo ref: N48302
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A Selection of Memories from Norwood Green

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Norwood Green

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When I was a little girl growing up in Norwood Green in the '60s, I can remember being sent over to the shops to fetch our daily bread order, a loaf of Mother's Pride in a red & white striped waxed wrapper. The parade of six shops provided almost everything we needed, except clothes, we had to walk into Hounslow for those. There was a newspaper (or sweet) shop, a butcher, a chemist, a grocery, a ...see more
I remember cycling by Norwood Green on a Sunday evening around 1955 having just come from Osterley Park. I was with my mum and dad. Church bells ringing, and cricket being played on the green. I actually remember thinking how peaceful it all seemed. The only bad thing was, as I had passed by my thoughts turned to school in the Morining.