Hayes Middlesex group

There was also a club set up with a track in the recreation ground on Kingsway, Hayes

I cant figure this photo thats a mk2 jag passing the trolly they started builing them in 1960. I had a 59 mk1 jag. but I dont remember trollys being around when I left Mellow lane school in 1962.

Thanks kelly for link.

I wondered where this was then realised it's the Grange Pub.

I went to Barnhill and Belmore leaving in 1992, looking at this it's a picture of corridor B and the CDT block in the back ground.

Dr Trippletts C of E Primary School, attended by me many years ago, and closed in 1962 when it moved to new buildings in Hewens Road. These buildings were demolished long ago. The building behind the telegraph pole was the headmasters huse - in my day a Mr Runnicles.

In the photograph, at the pedestrian crossing, is the Nash open-top car that I recall driving up and down Coldharbour lane in the mid-50s. It was red and cream in colour and the cars were made under licence by Austin. Right in the photograph is mens clothing store, Penningtons, which supplied me and my brother with our purple-edged-with-yellow Townfield school uniforms. Alongside the Nash is the Cooperative food shop, and hard right is the junction with Pump Lane which, in the mid-50s, led to Kraft's cheese factory and Crosse and Blackwell soup factory, amongst others, alongside the railway line to Paddington.

I love this photograph. It was scanned from a book of Great Western Railway publicity department photographs. I came along a five decades after this shot and remember the fascination of watching the gates come down and a slow line of freight wagons roll over Station Road and into the factories that lined the canal. The ritual happened every weekeday morning and late afternoon. Factories included Crompton-Parkinson who made large electrical generators and sub-power stations.

Looking south towards the junction with Station Road. Almost left was a toy shop in the 1950s, now a funeral parlour! On the right was a record shop, one half, the other occupied by a stationers who sold us Platignum and Osmid pens for school, plus my art supplies - cartridege paper books and paints. Rowley, in a shop hard left in the photograph, sold bicycles while his brother, in a separate shop, sold electrical goods furrher north on Broadway Parade, Coldharbour Lane, near where I lived, on the GWR railway estate.