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• Re: Cathall Road baths by eddie terry (Member 10069728) on 13-Apr-2012
  My father was a stoker there during the war about 1941 to 1945, they were coal fired boilers and very hard work
  He then got a job with the Regal Dry Cleaners opposite the Woodhouse pub as a stoker still coal fired
  We used to go to the bathes every Saturday for our bath and after hours he would let us in for a swim

• Re: pollings radio by Jim Smith (Member 10085272) on 12-Apr-2012
  Your memory is playing small tricks on you.
  
  Erith was left from Ferndale Road just near the Railway Bridge.
  
  As far I remember turning right from Ferndale Road were Matt Turgle ( a dry cleaners and tailoring alteration shop who had advertisements in the shop cut out from film magazines with inserted speech bubbles, then there was a chemist, Polinns and JB
  Stores.
  
  At one time there was a second hand book shop where you could buy books for 6d and get paind 3d when you returned it. Then there was a branch of Sainsbury's which ahd a lover smooth forecout which was ideal for skating then at the corner there was a sweet shop which later became a hair dressers.
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• Re: pollings radio by alan (Member 10257206) on 1-May-2012
  thanks jim i seem to remember the posters in the window of the tailors ect what year would that have been , i only remember caters stores in church lane and halfords were my dad brought me my first bike in 1963 64

• Re: Pickard family - Melford Road by Dennis Pickard (Member 10269578) on 16-Jan-2012
  G'day Susan I have sent 2 E-mails to you after I got your first message but so far have had no reply. It could be that my messages are not getting through or your ones are not arriving here. If not could you post another message on the Leytonstone message board so we can sort the problem out. Dennis

• Re: Hi by Olive Harrison (Member 10059031) on 1-Jan-2012
  Hello Brian it's been 30 years from UK & 18 years since iv'e been to Leytonstone, but i never forget
  my home & the old day's.
  I wish all my friend's A Happy & Healthy 2012
  God bless all friends forever

• Re: Hi by Brian Forge (Member 10239202) on 4-Feb-2012
  Sorry mistake it's 58 years sinse i left England

• Re: Dallen's Dancing School by chris (Member 10131550) on 11-Jan-2012
  I didn't personally go there, but my brother Eddie Ryan went there all the time
  

• Re: Hi by john player (Member 10253714) on 13-Nov-2011
  I remember the Barns family that lived in Norman
  Road 3 or 4 brothers all good footballers and I remember some sister as well

• Re: Hi by Brian Forge (Member 10239202) on 13-Nov-2011
  Hi Paul.I lived on Lansdowne Road untill i was 17and left for Canada in 1954.I have located most of my old friends via the message board and still stay in touch.I have traveld around Leytonstone via google earth and see lots of changes,i also was a big Leytonstone FC fan i was
  at the game when they won the FAA cup in 1948-49.I have never been back to England since i left and i guess i never will
  now but i still have fond memories of Leytonstone.I now live on Vancouver Island British Columbia.
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• Re: Hi by Olive Harrison (Member 10059031) on 15-Nov-2011
  Hello Paul, Have you got a sister Pamela ? I have lots of pictures of old Leytonstone & Leytonstone football sent to me from others. I live in the US but still want to come home, maybe Ramsgate Kent where we used to live after most of our lives in Leyton & Leytonstone. My email is on here somewhere. All the best Olive

• Re: Hi by Ellen Hope (Member 10269628) on 16-Jan-2012
  I am trying to locate anyone who may have info re Sansom road in the 1930's. My mother Beryl McGuire lived there and went to school locally. her mother was Ellen and father james (he worked for National Savings). My great aunt and Uncle may also have lived there. Elsie and Charles Smith sons Edward and Anthony.Any one with memories.

• Re: Crownfield Road 1930/1940's by john player (Member 10253714) on 12-Nov-2011
  was that the Thatched house or he Temple Mills end

• Re: box factory Norman road by Susan Greenwood (Member 10273792) on 15-May-2012
  Hi, I have just joined this site and just found your message about the box factory I'm Norman rd, I worked there for a few months after leaving school early 60s before starting as an apprentice for Paul's lady's hairdressing , the only person I can remember there was Pat White, she lived in Marchent rd, I lived in Lincoln st with my sister Carol.
  

• Re: Methodist Church in the High Street, GLB, George Tomlinson by Olive Harrison (Member 10059031) on 30-Oct-2011
  Hello Rose, as John said i have lots of pictures of old Leytonstone the high rd, schools,Rialto,State etc etc email me (londoner201@aol.com ) I shall be happy to forward
  them. Please put Leytonstone in the subject line
  so i know it's not spam thanks All the best Olive

• Re: Bearmans by john player (Member 10253714) on 15-Oct-2011
  Get in touch with Olive she has some great pic`s of leytonstone

• Re: Pie & Mash Shops by john player (Member 10253714) on 8-Oct-2011
  alas the Brit is no longer there .it was pulled down early this year
  the one opposit the Cowley is still there me and Malcolm Wilson had pie n mash there a few months ago STILL TASTE GREAT

• Re: Pie & Mash Shops by PaulPostie (Member 10267433) on 13-Nov-2011
  The pie and mash shop is still regarded as the best one around for miles. It is packed every weekend. Sadly the Cowley having changed its name a few times is no longer open.

• Re: Pie & Mash Shops by Jim Smith (Member 10085272) on 24-Dec-2011
  I went to the Pie and Mash shop, about two years, ago near Harrow Green and it was still good.
  
  For a while there was one opened near the Thatched House but it has closed down.
  
  Failing that there is one in Wood Street and the grandady of them all: Manzie's in High Street Walthamstow. That has tiles with cows grazing in field and I believe is listed b
  uilding.
  
  If you want to go further afield the there is on eon Colcester and also in Walton on the Naze. At the one in Walton you can have it with wine which misses the point!
  
  
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• Re: davis lane school by Brian Forge (Member 10239202) on 30-Sep-2011
  Hi can't help with the pics but i went to davis
  lane from 1940 to 1946 Then went to trumington
  road school

• Re: davis lane school by Olive Harrison (Member 10059031) on 9-Oct-2011
  Hello Brian, you say you went to Trumington school 1940to1946 do you remember a cook there ( if you had school dinners) name of Kathleen Burgess ? if so that was my Mum she worked there for a few years. Hope you are well I must catch up with my emails not been on for a while one of my close friend's is very ill so not had much time for computer's Love to you all Olive

• Re: davis lane school by Brian Forge (Member 10239202) on 12-Oct-2011
  Hi olive nice to hear from you,i don't remember the cook but there was a girl in my class named Margret Burgess,any relation?.I have looked on google earth and it seems that Trumpington road school is no longer there.Brian

• Re: davis lane school by john player (Member 10253714) on 12-Oct-2011
  Lovely to hear that you are about Olive
  We all missed you
  John Player

• Re: davis lane school by Olive Harrison (Member 10059031) on 30-Oct-2011
  Hello John yes still here, don't get much time for puter still having big problem with printer,
  now saving up to upgrade to windows 7 without losing any of my XP have so many pictures plus tons of old songs, like "My old mans a dustman" etc etc.so getting an expert to do this for me. The cost is nearly as much as a new computer.By the way did Violet ever get her computer ?
  Cheers to all Olive

• Re: wood street, leytonstone by john player (Member 10253714) on 13-Sep-2011
  I remember the Bagnils but can you remind me where
  Wood st was

• Re: wood street, leytonstone by David Ellingford (Member 10244978) on 16-Sep-2011
  Don't recollect Wood Street in Leytonstone but do remember one in Walthamstow (Whipps Cross).My mother was a Bagnall and lived in Florence Road, and I had Aunts and Uncles (Bagnall) one in Cathall Road,Wanstead Flats and West Street.

• Re: wood street, leytonstone by john player (Member 10253714) on 22-Sep-2011
  do you think that should be west street because I think I remember the Bagnnals comming from around that way

• Re: wood street, leytonstone by Ernest George Murphy (Member 10175735) on 5-Oct-2011
  From Harrow green into Cathall rd,turn 1st left
  into holloway rd, 1st left into WOOD ST,
  2nd left Denmark st, 3rd left Temple st carry on
  to south & north Birbecks,
  other side of Hollowayrd,1st right Argyle st,
  2nd right Trinity st carry on to the Birbecks

• Re: wood street, leytonstone by chris (Member 10131550) on 11-Jan-2012
  Hi David, I remember the Bagnalls, we were the Ryans from Florence Rd, my aunt and cousins the Barrasses lived next door. You may know my brother Eddie Ryan
  

• Re: wood street, leytonstone by David Ellingford (Member 10244978) on 20-Jan-2012
  Hi Chris, Yes, I did know your brother Eddie, long time ago now how is he? Always assumed you were related to the Masons that lived next door.

• Re: Smiths @ Crownfield Road by Olive Harrison (Member 10059031) on 14-Sep-2011
  Don't know if this will help but i remember a Lennie Smith used to go around with a Billie Walace & another Billie can't remember his second name they all lived somewhere at the end of Crownfield & Major road's sorry i don't know where they are now maybe this will help or not just keep trying you never know. Good luck
  Olive

• Re: Bomb site in Mornington Road by Sally Hocking (Member 10264645) on 25-Aug-2011
  Sally Hocking nee Sally Wood

• Re: Bomb site in Mornington Road by Brian Forge (Member 10239202) on 30-Sep-2011
  Hi i lived on Lansdowne road,and was out on the street when the land mine came down on the parachute,it nearley took out the railway over pass only missed it by feet,my dad and i ducked
  behind a wall when it hit at the end of the road
  my dad was an A.R.P warden and spent days going
  through the wreckage i was around eight at the time.

• Re: Ex servicemans Club, Harvey Road by Sally Hocking (Member 10264645) on 25-Aug-2011
  Sally Hocking formerly Sally Wood

• Re: Ex servicemans Club, Harvey Road by Susan Greenwood (Member 10273792) on 15-May-2012
  I used to go to the ex service mans club with my dad late 60s , I had my wedding reception in the upstairs hall in 1970, and went up there occasionally untill my dad died in 1993, but he was there every week on a sat & sun I used to go and pick him up from there as he go older, good memory's .