Hi Lena and Harry-I meant to ask before--is The Galtymore Dance Hall
,still in Kilburn---I used to go there with my first husband---many many moons ago!!
Marian
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Hi Lena & Harry,
Being from the "Gateway to the Sarf", I cannot claim much knowledge of Kilburn, I'm afraid. The only real memories are that it was that place just after Regents Park and St. Johns Wood, and before Cricklewood and Hendon on the way up to the M1 in the days (late 1970s) when I had to make that particular journey from home in Thornton Heath, near Croydon (my mum and dad still live there) up to Bangor in North Wales where I went to University.
Besides, us softies were always a bit wary of the "hard nuts who lived north of the river"......
Terra
Being from the "Gateway to the Sarf", I cannot claim much knowledge of Kilburn, I'm afraid. The only real memories are that it was that place just after Regents Park and St. Johns Wood, and before Cricklewood and Hendon on the way up to the M1 in the days (late 1970s) when I had to make that particular journey from home in Thornton Heath, near Croydon (my mum and dad still live there) up to Bangor in North Wales where I went to University.
Besides, us softies were always a bit wary of the "hard nuts who lived north of the river"......
Terra
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Hi Lena & Harry,
Too true, the world's getting a scary place these days, and no-one seems to be able to keep the baddies in check anymore. Either some righteous twit intervenes on behalf their human rights, or the judges let 'em off anyway....wouldn't happen if the Krays were about
I feel way sorry for the police.
And Marian - a West Londoner! I used to be there a lot. I was a keen oarsmen, and the school boatclub was at Barnes Bridge. We spent a lot of time in the Kew-Barnes-Hammersmith-Putney area. My school was Emanuel at Wandsworth, so I used to travel by train to Clapham Junction every day, where me Dad also worked down the market, until he moved to Putney High Street in the 80s. My wife was born in Shepherds Bush, and her Auntie lived for years until recently in those high rise blocks in 'ammersmiff just opposite the tube station.
So we were all born within about 20 miles of each other - amazing! Could have even passed one another in the street !
Terra
Too true, the world's getting a scary place these days, and no-one seems to be able to keep the baddies in check anymore. Either some righteous twit intervenes on behalf their human rights, or the judges let 'em off anyway....wouldn't happen if the Krays were about
I feel way sorry for the police.And Marian - a West Londoner! I used to be there a lot. I was a keen oarsmen, and the school boatclub was at Barnes Bridge. We spent a lot of time in the Kew-Barnes-Hammersmith-Putney area. My school was Emanuel at Wandsworth, so I used to travel by train to Clapham Junction every day, where me Dad also worked down the market, until he moved to Putney High Street in the 80s. My wife was born in Shepherds Bush, and her Auntie lived for years until recently in those high rise blocks in 'ammersmiff just opposite the tube station.
So we were all born within about 20 miles of each other - amazing! Could have even passed one another in the street !
Terra
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Hi Terra, yes we could have passed one another in the street and we did
mention not long ago on the forum about our past memories of the White City area and the changes that have taken place around there.
Terra was the cap you are wearing one that you have won for rowing at your University or club perhaps. Just curious now knowing that you were an oarsman at the boat club at Barnes Bridge. ?
mention not long ago on the forum about our past memories of the White City area and the changes that have taken place around there.
Terra was the cap you are wearing one that you have won for rowing at your University or club perhaps. Just curious now knowing that you were an oarsman at the boat club at Barnes Bridge. ?
Hi Terra--well, they say it is a small world--very true.
I lived in East Acton, just down the road from Shepherds Bush. My Mum and dad took us often to the "White City Stadium" to watch athletics, and many trips to the "Shepherds Bush Empire" to see the variety shows there
I have been back to see "Wogan " a couple of times, but it is not the same. My mum worked for many years at the Tv centre in Wood Lane--and I can actually remember it being built, as my school was just at the back--right by the side of Queens Park Rangers Football Ground. My dad worked at the "Fulham Power Station" all his working life. I also loved going to Shepherd's Bush Market--apart from Home, that was the place I missed most when moved away.
We had relatives living in Barnes and many a Sunday we took a 72 bus to visit them. And every Saturday, we took a bus into Hammersmith, to go down King Street and do our shopping--plus once a week a trip to the Hammersmith Odeon. I know it is all different now, because I have been to concerts at the Apollo--I recognise nothing!!
My sister now works by Putney Bridge at the Hurlingham Club.
I left London in the late 60's, so you may not have been around there then.
Marian
I lived in East Acton, just down the road from Shepherds Bush. My Mum and dad took us often to the "White City Stadium" to watch athletics, and many trips to the "Shepherds Bush Empire" to see the variety shows there
I have been back to see "Wogan " a couple of times, but it is not the same. My mum worked for many years at the Tv centre in Wood Lane--and I can actually remember it being built, as my school was just at the back--right by the side of Queens Park Rangers Football Ground. My dad worked at the "Fulham Power Station" all his working life. I also loved going to Shepherd's Bush Market--apart from Home, that was the place I missed most when moved away.
We had relatives living in Barnes and many a Sunday we took a 72 bus to visit them. And every Saturday, we took a bus into Hammersmith, to go down King Street and do our shopping--plus once a week a trip to the Hammersmith Odeon. I know it is all different now, because I have been to concerts at the Apollo--I recognise nothing!!
My sister now works by Putney Bridge at the Hurlingham Club.
I left London in the late 60's, so you may not have been around there then.
Marian
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Hi Marian and Terra and all As we've talked about before we are familiar with all these places, having an aunt and cousins in the high rise block at the White City. until they moved to Richmond.
The Shepherds Bush Market was a favourite haunt on a Saturday, I had my ears pierced in the jewellers there on my Sixteenth Birthday much to my Mum's dismay and anger when i got home.
We would go to Queens Park Rangers on my brother's motor bike and side car, never worried about polluting the air then. Nobody did.
It's all different now.
The Shepherds Bush Market was a favourite haunt on a Saturday, I had my ears pierced in the jewellers there on my Sixteenth Birthday much to my Mum's dismay and anger when i got home.
We would go to Queens Park Rangers on my brother's motor bike and side car, never worried about polluting the air then. Nobody did.
It's all different now.
Hi Lena--you will not believe it-I also had my ears pierced in a jewellers in Shepherds Bush Market--just as soon as I got a Saturday job, and could pay for it myself. My Mum and dad knew about it beforehand, and did not mind.
Marian
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Mariana
London
Hi Fellow Londoners,
This has become an interesting discussion
First to the cap I am wearing - I never was that successful at rowing, though I have a few trophies, pennants and tankards from around the place, Putney Regatta, York Head of the River etc. The cap is from Boston, USA, which I bought a couple of years ago on a business trip to that glorious city. You can't see it properly, but there is a red lobster logo on the front since that area is famous for the Maine lobsters. This is a bad picture of me, but was the only recent one I had of myself when I joined the forum. I take thousand of digital pics, but hardly any are of me. This one was not a deliberate pose of me hiding my face, it was my youngest son catching me on a picnic bench on a family day out at Wookey Hole earlier this year, whilst I was looking down at my mobile phone
Now, that we've got back from hols in Disneyland, I'll see if there is a better pic of myself I can upload, though you may see me wih a large mouse in there somewhere
My rowing days were 1972-6 in the Barnes area, and after that I was rowing on the sea, the Menai straights between the coast of North Wales and Anglesey. Man, it was cold, we must have been crazy...the enthusiasm of youth
Apart from my mum and dad, most of our family have left the London area now. We ouselves have moved around according to my job. We lived in the Netherlands for 7 years, then Cambridge, Lavenham in Suffolk, Peterborough, and now the wilds of Wiltshire.
Terra
This has become an interesting discussion
First to the cap I am wearing - I never was that successful at rowing, though I have a few trophies, pennants and tankards from around the place, Putney Regatta, York Head of the River etc. The cap is from Boston, USA, which I bought a couple of years ago on a business trip to that glorious city. You can't see it properly, but there is a red lobster logo on the front since that area is famous for the Maine lobsters. This is a bad picture of me, but was the only recent one I had of myself when I joined the forum. I take thousand of digital pics, but hardly any are of me. This one was not a deliberate pose of me hiding my face, it was my youngest son catching me on a picnic bench on a family day out at Wookey Hole earlier this year, whilst I was looking down at my mobile phone
Now, that we've got back from hols in Disneyland, I'll see if there is a better pic of myself I can upload, though you may see me wih a large mouse in there somewhere My rowing days were 1972-6 in the Barnes area, and after that I was rowing on the sea, the Menai straights between the coast of North Wales and Anglesey. Man, it was cold, we must have been crazy...the enthusiasm of youth
Apart from my mum and dad, most of our family have left the London area now. We ouselves have moved around according to my job. We lived in the Netherlands for 7 years, then Cambridge, Lavenham in Suffolk, Peterborough, and now the wilds of Wiltshire.
Terra
Hi Terra--the concidences roll on--my brother lived in Peterborough-well just outside--and his widow still lives there. They used to live in Sudbury Suffolk--and my sister has lived in Bury St Edmunds Suffolk, for over 40 years, and all her children, bar 1, have settled in the same area, in the surrounding villages.
And I loved Boston too--we actually went on a boat out to see to see the whales--wow--an incredible experience--seeing those huge creatures just yards away-diving in the ocean with their tails in the air--truly awesome!!
Marian
And I loved Boston too--we actually went on a boat out to see to see the whales--wow--an incredible experience--seeing those huge creatures just yards away-diving in the ocean with their tails in the air--truly awesome!!
Marian
Mariana
Hi Marian,
We didn't actually live in Peterborough, but a rather old, nice little village called Glinton, just to the NE of the City Centre. Peterborough seems to be developing in an interesting way with some new "hamlets" sprouting up round the main city itself. It was very convenient, rural life, but just a few miles away from a major city centre. I could hope on a train and - GNER be willing - be in the centre of London in 45 minutes. It was a lovely place for cycling etc. with my boys, and I very much regret leaving there, but we had to come to the south west in 2003 because I was made redundant and had no other options at the time.
I have been to Boston 3 times now, I think, and quite enjoyed it. I went deliberately looking for the "Cheers" bar, and couldn't find it, and then passed it quite by accident on the way back ! I didn't go in though, knowing that the TV show was not actually shot inside, they only used the outside in the show.
Terra
We didn't actually live in Peterborough, but a rather old, nice little village called Glinton, just to the NE of the City Centre. Peterborough seems to be developing in an interesting way with some new "hamlets" sprouting up round the main city itself. It was very convenient, rural life, but just a few miles away from a major city centre. I could hope on a train and - GNER be willing - be in the centre of London in 45 minutes. It was a lovely place for cycling etc. with my boys, and I very much regret leaving there, but we had to come to the south west in 2003 because I was made redundant and had no other options at the time.
I have been to Boston 3 times now, I think, and quite enjoyed it. I went deliberately looking for the "Cheers" bar, and couldn't find it, and then passed it quite by accident on the way back ! I didn't go in though, knowing that the TV show was not actually shot inside, they only used the outside in the show.
Terra
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Hi All, the story goes on and on, and Marian the jewellers in the market was still there when I last visited the area up to just a few years ago and may still be there. It's very likely that we have both stood in the same spot having those sleepers gouged in, and Robert forget about Harry and earrings, he faints at the sight of a needle. I even have to do my sewing in another room
Well here we go, Harry's niece lives in Peterborough, and my nieces in-laws live in Suffolk, we've never been to Boston, but we do go to Wookey Hole quite often.
Terra, your picture is fine but it's always the same for the one with the camera, they are never in the pictures themselves.
and Marian the jewellers in the market was still there when I last visited the area up to just a few years ago and may still be there. It's very likely that we have both stood in the same spot having those sleepers gouged in, and Robert forget about Harry and earrings, he faints at the sight of a needle. I even have to do my sewing in another room Well here we go, Harry's niece lives in Peterborough, and my nieces in-laws live in Suffolk, we've never been to Boston, but we do go to Wookey Hole quite often.
Terra, your picture is fine but it's always the same for the one with the camera, they are never in the pictures themselves.