Hi Not a lot doing at present so this is just an attempt to "stir" things up a little. We have recently been looking at Romford Market Place which for sure...
Syd, Â I came to Romford in 1931 at the age of five and lived on Clydesdale. Â The first major WALK Â I recall was from there to Oldchurch Hospital, shortly...
One of the first "walks" I remember was along the Battis in a pram! We use to do this on a regular basis when my mum took us to visit my nan who lived in a...
Hi Harry. Can always rely on you for a response for which thank you. Can follow your steps and indeed the walk you took leading to a museum with lots of...
Hi Vic. Great comments and once again I am able to retrace your steps (as Harry's)exactly having lived in the same area all my years in Romford. All of that...
Having walked your walks gentlemen it occured to me that many of today's youngsters do not walk anywhere let alone out by themselves what a freedom we had and...
Hi. Very brief this but intended as always to promote comment. History and Nostalgia and for sure there is a positive connection between the two. How do you...
Hi Ruth. Hope you are well, had a good Xmas and have a good New Year. Your comments very valid and as you stated the youngsters (and not only them) will not...
Romford history well perhaps this is about the actual changes and our memories of facts. Nostalgia more our own spin on the fondness with which we regard the...
Hi Ruth. Wordy? not at all. You repeat really what I already said that nostalgia is as we see it in our own lifetimes and that beyond - i.e.I wish I had lived...
Well Syd if you spent time in the Laurie Arms perhaps you and Colin met up in there? My grandad and 2 uncles would of paid for the pub a few times over I...
Bob, Â Thank you for your response. Â I learned more about "The Woodcraft Folk' on the computer than I ever knew. Â I had assumed that there was a Socialist...
Syd, They had birds eggs too in that museum.  I started to collect birds eggs but my sisters made me feel guilty so I quit.  I  miss the variety of  birds...
I lived in a Nash house in Highfield Rd. and watched the prefabs being built. Some Sundays my Dad would take us on a walk to the top of Highfield road, past...
Hi Mike, I remember that fog it was thicker in places and I recall seeing my feet disappear well above my knees..I thought it was that television series...
Good to see you 'on the page' again Ruth. Compliments of the season a little late! Sounds much like our local areas, create an open space, fill it with a ...
Hi Vic. Will answer best I can. Ref the Laurie Arms I used it for a time before going into the Army in 52. Can remember it as a very happy pleasant pub and...
Hi Harry. Very mixed days then for sure during wartime but everyone pressed on and put up with all the many trials and tribulations of the time,wonderful...
Hi. Further walks enjoyed in the Bedfords/Collier Row area. From Hainut Rd. Walk or take the 175 Bus to Nth Romford, along Lower Bedfords Rd and into the field...
Hi A correction. In my last post when referring to the end of Broxhill Rd I stated at the crossroads it was Hog Hill Rd to the left. Of course it is Noak Hill...
Syd,  All those names bring back sweet memories.  Was not Eastern Ave. also called The Arterial Road? Harry ________________________________ From: sydney...
Harry: For sure when we lived in Rosedale Road, in the late 30s - early 40s, it was certainly the Arterial Road, 2 minutes from our front door at # 2!!!...
Hi Peggy/Harry. Ref the Eastern Ave/Arterial Rd we kids did many miles walking and riding our bikes on it. These bike rides were to Southend, mostly there and...
I think you would have to be very keen eyed to note which of constant the traffic that went to Southend along the arterial, on a warm summer's day and returned...
Its nice to see this site up and running again, I have not responded to any of these messages as Syd and I must have been joined at the hip at that time, we...
Ruth: Quote from your email below: "Lots of different cars but somehow not so romantic as in the past" .... How well we remember the GOOD things. I recall...
Hi Ruth. Keen eyed indeed we were though of course we could not tell if it was all headed for just Southend though it was a fair assumption that at least a...
Hi Peggy. Great little cars the MG sports, I had quite a few journeys myself in a BRG TA going to and coming from work at Bow, 70mph top whack but that was...
