Growing up in West London

Later lived in Putney, opposite the Hospital for Incurables- and also in Roehampton. Just loved getting lost in Richmond Park or Wimbledon Common ... when I found London just too overwhelming...

When I first came to London, aged just 19 from my Swiss mountains- I lived above the launderette in Isleworth- sharing with 5 nurses (1970)- used to love going to the London Apprentice at the week-end, and Chequers sometimes. Worked at Beecham's on the GW Road. Met OH who was working at West Mid- as I got on the wrong train coming back from an evening in London- in the carriages going to Twickers rather than Isleworth...

When I was there Spring Grove girls had blue blazers and skirts/ pinafore dresses and the original cream blouse was changed to a white shirt and a blue tie. We had the same blazer badge as the boys - the Middx badge in black and white. The hats were skull caps - all bought in Abernethie's on Hounslow High Street. We got our summer dress material from Trebles on the High Street but you needed a chitty thing signed by Miss Taylor to get any!

Eel Pie was wonderful. Just murky enough to feel rebellious but safe as houses. Had to pay a 6pence toll to a very old lady who sat by the bridge in a hut. May have been a shilling. Lots of dark corners which are good at 17.

They had a light show, all very low tech . A mirror, a magnifying projector and coloured water I should imagine. Very psychedelic. ( Not)

I remember the The Green School LullyDully as I went to school in Isleworth as well, the Catholic grammar school. Although as I lived near Staines, I had to catch the train to Twickenham and then the trolley bus to get there. Was the Spring Grove blazer blue?

I had one good friend who lived in Isleworth but my social life (such as it was then) didn't really include that area. I wasn't too disappointed when when my dad wouldn't let me go to Eel Pie Island, announcing it a "den of iniquity".
DH who went there at about the same time ( having read the same report in the Sunday paper,) said it wasn't.

I remember going dancing at the Castle in Richmond almost every Saturday at one stage. We used to go skating in Richmond as well.

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Welcome fellow school pal. Will pm you soon, May know each other.

Yes, The Green School for me

Yes, L'Auberge was very cool. I can see everyone sitting in the sun on the wall.

My brother went to Spring Grove Grammer in Isleworth and half way through it moved to Lampton. Born in the West Mid..We saw the Animals in the Zambezi Club in Hounslow. The supporting group was Steve Marriott's Moments!!!! ( later the Small Faces.One or 2 of them went to Spring Grove.)My Dad didn't want me to go, even though all my friends were going. Took a lot of persuading.

I did some work at Spring Grove, but taught full time at Chatsworth.
You beat me to it by mentioning L'Auberge. They were happy days.

My sister was born in West Middlesex hospital in Isleworth in the mid forties. I too taught in Hounslow for a bit.

I went to Spring Grove - my next door neighbour went to the Green School and would have been about your year. My cousins went there too but we're a lot younger than me.

L'Auberge was one of the coffee bars and the Copper Kettle a nice little restaurant on the top of Richmond Hill. They did squashy meringues there if you asked them to put the cream in the middle early while you were eating your main course!

Happy Days!

The Green School?

I too remember those heady wonderful days in the 1960s in Birmingham. I went to see the Beatles, Dusty Springfield and Bobby Vee in one show. Also Bill Haley at the Hippodrome. There were jazz clubs too where we saw Georgie Fame, Alan Price. A fab jazz style pianist who was married to the singer Katerina Valentie, oh yes his name had come to me now Roy Budd. Truly wonderful

The very first live artist I saw in a club was Big D Irwin who sang 'would you like to swing on a star'.

I would love to travel back in time and enjoy it all over again.

I was born in Isleworth Hospital but lived in Southall. Had a great childhood, and then went back to teach in Southall and Hounslow, both inspirational places to work.
Used to go to The Ealing Club, Eel Pie Island and of course the wonderful Southall Community Centre. Remember being astounded that the Community Centre was charging 9 shillings, yes 9 shillings, to see the Animals. Great times.

Antieflo I lived a bit further out than Hounslow but went to school in Isleworth - left 1958 when I was18. Did you go to the girl's school or the co-ed one? I frequented Richmond quite a bit and the coffee bars etc and dancing at the Castle. Always went to Kensington or Oxford Street for clothes shopping - even when the shops closed at 12 on a Saturday. Never seemed so tiring then !

Hi Lully. I grew up in Hounslow, and went to school in Isleworth, but probably a good bit before you, as I left school around 1956. I wasn't a music fan, but have been ' educated' by DH, and my learning continues to this day