Hi Romfordians My name is Len Wood from London, Canada.I was born in Birkbeck Rd in late 40's lived in Collier Row and Essex Rd going to schools in both...
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Phil Steer
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Apr 6, 2000 9:09 am
Hi Len, Many thanks for introducing yourself to the group - I hope that you find it interesting and worthwhile. Might your school in Collier Row have been...
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LEN WOOD
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Apr 7, 2000 2:04 am
Hi Phil, Would Clockhouse Lane be in the vicinity of Warden Ave ? My sister and I were talking a couple of weeks back and we both recalled going to the school ...
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Phil Steer
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Apr 7, 2000 9:07 am
Hi Len, Many thanks for your message. ... Clockhouse Lane school would be about 1/2 mile "as the crow files" from Warden Avenue. Another possibility would be...
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LEN WOOD
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Apr 7, 2000 11:29 pm
... Phil, Thanks for all the info.I don't recall any remaining damage but think the houses at the far end where I lived were fairly new but not sure.I see that...
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joe@...
Apr 8, 2000 5:48 am
I am about to start a project on local history at school and want to concentrate on South Street. I'm interested to hear fom anyone who can tell me almost...
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Phil Steer
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Apr 8, 2000 8:35 am
Hello Joe (is it Joe?), Many thanks for joining our group and for your enquiry - I really hope that between us we can help you. I will try to give you some...
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Phil Steer
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Apr 8, 2000 9:16 am
Hi Len, ... I'd never thought about this, but you could well be right. The gun site at Warren farm in Whalebone Lane North was less than half-a-mile across...
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Howard Lyons
joe@...
Apr 8, 2000 10:44 am
Hello Phil. Thanks for the information you sent me. Yes my name is Joe and I go to Coopers Company and Coborn school in Upminster. You are probably aware that...
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Phil Steer
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Apr 8, 2000 12:49 pm
Hello Joe, Thanks for your reply. I think a project on South Street is a great idea - it's by no means the first place that one would think of, but there's ...
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Michael Merry
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Apr 9, 2000 4:51 pm
Phil: I recall the anti-aircraft establishment at Whalebone Lane, we lived in Chadwell Heath Lane in the early 40's and would stay in Percival Gardens at my...
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Michael Merry
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Apr 9, 2000 4:57 pm
Joe: I had to laugh, you said your Dad remembered when Sainsbury's was in South Street! I don't remember it anywhere else! I was last in Romford in about '75...
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Enid Barrie
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Apr 9, 2000 5:30 pm
Dear All, Since joining the list a few months ago I have wanted to respond to Phil's invitation to introduce myself to the group but pressures of work have ...
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Phil Steer
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Apr 9, 2000 5:49 pm
Dear Enid, Many thanks for introducing yourself. I must reassure you that I hadn't forgotten Pinewood! It's just that I knew that it wasn't opened until ...
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Phil Steer
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Apr 9, 2000 5:55 pm
Hi Mike, ... Sainsbury's is currently in the Liberty 2 Shopping centre (http://www.romford.org/roads/mercury-gardens/mercury04.htm), but it will move again...
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Enid Barrie
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Apr 9, 2000 6:11 pm
sorry, website address is www.pinewoodschool.cjb.net!...
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rimoco@...
Apr 9, 2000 11:53 pm
I seem to remember watching Bill Haley in ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK at the Gaunt (which was on the other side of the road) not the Odeon. In those days they...
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Apr 10, 2000 12:03 am
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Michael Merry
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Apr 10, 2000 11:33 am
Dear Phil: Quick and courteous as usual! Thanks. I will be in Romford this year. I plan on attending the Royal Liberty reunion on July 8th. I return...
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Douglas Mackay
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Apr 10, 2000 5:06 pm
... Ref David's comments Digest 150. He didn't miss anything by not going inside the shelter, it is just a brick block ,concrete slab floor , rough unfinished...
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Peter Cowling
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Apr 11, 2000 7:31 am
Mike Merry wrote: "Joe: The cinema's are something else I recall from the late 40's and early 50's when I lieve in Chadwell Heath. The Odeon, just below the...
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Terry Mercer
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Apr 11, 2000 11:24 am
May I add a little bit of my memories of Romford South Street. Next to the old Police Station opposite Western Road was Craddocks shop which I suppose was a...
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Geoffrey Willis
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Apr 11, 2000 12:59 pm
Hi Phil, To add to Terry Mercer's recollections, I recall "Bartons" oppersite Sainsburys,it was between Woolworths and the Gaumont movie house,as a nipper I...
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TeresaFazio@...
Apr 11, 2000 1:08 pm
Regarding bom shelters! When we moved from Sheringham Avenue, Romford to Lodge Avenue in 1985, there was a bomb shelter still in the back garden there. We had...
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dgmaltby
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Apr 11, 2000 5:19 pm
... time) ... watch ... ...and were well miffed to discover that they were a tad too late for the performance! I saw it in 1953 when there was a rash of cinema...
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Phil Steer
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Apr 12, 2000 9:52 am
Many thanks for all your interesting and enlightening memories of South Street - please, keep them coming! Joe, if there's anything in particular that you'd...
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Phil Steer
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Apr 13, 2000 9:23 am
Sheila has sent me a wonderful photograph of her parents' Market stall, which I have added to my "Romford Now & Then" Web site along with Sheila's memories...
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Phil Steer
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Apr 15, 2000 8:37 am
There's a very interesting article in this week's Romford Recorder about the descendents of Edward Ind. It can be found online at ...
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Dorothy I. Bechard
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Apr 15, 2000 5:01 pm
Hi Phil, Thanks so much for thinking of me & forewarding the Brewery Article. Very interesting article to save for posterity :) Dorothy ... From: "Phil Steer"...
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Barry Hilliard
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Apr 15, 2000 9:26 pm
Hi Phil I was looking through your home page and noticed the schools that were listed I for a time went to romford college this was a private school in ...
