Wembley, Harrow Road 1962
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Memories of Wembley, Harrow Road 1962

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. These memories are of Wembley, Harrow Road 1962

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I remember perrin road infants and juniorschool. I started school After easter 1953. My first real memory is being taken around the streets of Wembley. Miss Law was the headmistress of the infants and our classrooms were cabins the playground. Miss Ling was my first teacher. When we went up into the Juniors, we went into the old part of the school which still had gas lighting the teacher turning out the lights with a ...see more
The war was nearly over but I remember the Shelters along Maybank Ave. We'd dare each other into them on our way to Elms Lane school. Along the avenue and across the Harrow Road using the crossing by the Express Dairy shop, along Elms Lane and into the school opposite the green. Mr Evans was the head, a Welshman, who if he caught us fighting would arrange a boxing match with the gloves on in front of the class. My ...see more