Scout War Bureau 1939 at Kenton, Harrow, UK
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Original footage of a help bureau set up by 2nd Kenton Scout Group at the start of the second world war. Shows Rest Hotel, Kenton Station, Kenton Library, Priestmead School. Woodcock Hill.
Lots of memories for me although I was not born until 1938 and therefore not old enough to be involved with the Scout War Bureau. However, I was in the 2nd Kenton Cubs, and then went on to the 6th Kenton Air Scouts and Senior Scouts. My dad was a scoutmaster called "Saint". We lived in Becmead Avenue, which as I remember it is the extension of Mayfield Rd., which was opposite Woodcock Hill. Went to Priestmead Primary School, then Belmont Secondary Modern, then Hendon Tech and Kilburn Polytechnic. The Rest Hotel and Kenton Library were very familiar places to me. Lived there until the late 1950s and as a young man travelled into the city from either Kenton Station or Northolt Station. Get me a Tardis! I want to go back to that wonderful town that was Kenton in the 1940s and 50s. Cheers from Australia!
It would be inconceivable now to go to Northolt to get a tube into town, I imagine there was much less traffic around then. To be pedantic the 140 bus route has since changed at the Harrow & Kenton end so a direct run is not possible anyway. Nice to see Priestmead School and Kenton Library, neither of which has changed very much externally. The air-raid shelters at Priestmead were still there in the mid 1970s for sure.
What happened in Kenton? 😁
*Wow Priestmead School!! I went there from 1975 to 1983*
WOW! thank you for uploading this, Kenton looked so much more peaceful in those days, now Kenton is just a confusing mass of speeding cars coming at you from all angles, and dirty trash, and broken glass everywhere! I can't wait to get the hell out of this dump! :(
Loved the pictures of Kenton Library, Woodcock Hill looking up to where my daughters went to Nursery and back down again. And also up the hill to Kenton Bridge and over.
Thanks so much for posting,
Tim
They still had the 140 bus and the travellers rest. Fascinating peice of film. If any of these kids are alive today they would be in their 80s now. All the adults in the film would be brown bread. I am surprised there were so many cars.
My brother (78) is the little boy who takes a message from my mother on the phone. The travellers' rest was call the rest hotel then.
I hope you and your brother are still well?
@@caltayz yes, doing fine thanks.
Hi everyone. My recently deceased father-in-law was the young scout who answered the phone towards the beginning of the video. He died earlier this year (2015) at the good age of 91. He was a Baptist Minister and his name was Rev C Alan Stephens. Anyone got any more film of the 2nd Kenton? His wife, Joy, who recognised him is still alive in living in Dartford, Kent.
Also shows the shops (now demolished) on the bridge opposite the Rest Hotel.
Hi Colin, A bit of a typo there. I was of course referring to Northwick Park station and not Northolt. The only thing different about Northwick Park station on photos I have seen is that the paper shop is no longer located in the front entrance. No paper shop on the platform at Kenton station either. 230 bus route was the one I used the most but we walked to most places in those days. I still have lots of fond memories of Kenton and its populace in the 1940s through to the end of the 1950s when we moved to Bricket Wood. The only reason I used to go to Northolt as a youngster was to collect aircraft numbers at the airport.
Yes and Priestmead School where I went as a 5 year old.
@kevphillips02 Only the one named in the description. Also 13 Radstock Avenue was the base for operation.
In 70 years they will be looking at videos of us, no doubt laughing at how primitively we live and comment “Gosh they are all dead!” This is our time! Live it well.....
@srekauq Do you know any of the roads filmed. I can see the Kenton road. I lived in streatfield road .
funny how life keeps evolving . People come and go. Here today gone tomorrow. I was here you was not now you are now im not.
Kenton library still the same as now.
Priestmead? So did I (1952 - 1956)
@Ryan199403 Hi Ryan, yes still going strong!
The elf n safety lot would have a field day lol
:O OMGOSH !!!!!!!!!!!!
Harrow was cleaner then. Now it's too congested and litter everywhere. It's NOT due to immigration, it's due to the volume and type of immigration. Two different things. Of course, you're forced to celebrate how the area has become for fear being called a racist.