Remember When Guestbook

Thoroughly enjoyed reading people’s memories of the school and the area.
Thank you Syd for bringing us together again.

Would love to hear from anyone who lived in Rayners Lane S Harrow HA2.OUH

I was at no 72

My mother was still there until her death in 2003!

Just seen web-site and couldn't help feeling nostalgic. Attended boys school 1960-1965 before going to Harrow Tech. I remember Ray Pinch making us play cricket without gloves and Brian Chapman bowling and hitting my thumb - the pain and the blood still lives in my memory.

I went to Roxeth Manor until 1963 would love to reach out to any old school friends I have so many memories of you all. As we get older we wonder where everyone is I myself immigrated to Canada in 1973 with my husband my married name is (Spraggett) I do keep in touch with some of my school friends which I am so pleased to have found. Facebook is a great place to reach out to old friends but, I am hoping that I will find friends on this site.
Thank you for creating this page

I posted a comment a few minutes ago and it will be the next one that you see.
I expected my email address to be included but it wasn’t so please find in in the “searching for....” section of this website.

I grew up in Kings Road with my parents and my sister Ann Fowler ( she was born 1939 and me in 1943).
In 1961 I joined the army and left the area. I eventually moved to Australia in 1974. I have visited my old stamping grounds a few times in the last 10 years and am surprised that, essentially, not a lot has changed except for the ethnicity of the whole area. My old friends were all lost to me after I joined the army and if anyone has any news of Ronald Broadley, Peter Baker or Jim Pugh I would be very grateful if you could email me.
Thanks Syd for an entertaining and well built website.

I remember Lock and Son where we used to buy our furniture and carpets.
We still have one of their carpets! - it is lasting well.
I remember the Timber Supplies that used to be next to the Sainsburys site.
I remember the cycle shop near South Harrow station - they began selling mopeds around 1968.
Woolworths of course has fond memories for me - replaced now by Poundland. There was the Express dairy which dissappeared around 1980. The Motor shop in Northolt Road used to sell marine items for sailing craft. I used this shop regularly when I built a small sailing dingy. There used to be about 4 bakeries, ABC, Lists, Coombes. There used to be 2 shoe shops. There used to be a very good material and linen shop roughly opposite Woolworths where you could buy material by the yard. Hartex, the camping shop and Bowmans bric-a-brac shops come to mind which I visited regularly.
Was it Budgens/Finefare? that existed where the Costa coffee shop is now. There was a florist shop on the corner of Northolt Parade where

Anyone who knew me then would know me as Beryl Campbell. I reverted to my middle name, Sonia and am now married. I