1955
1955
I came across this photo, and a few others, from the area where I lived as a child, now called the London Borough of Hillingdon. I look at the pictures, all from 1955, and see a gentler, kinder age: the red buses, the post box, the old fashioned traffic sign, less cars on the road and so on.
The photos are a little hazy but they sharpened some of my memories.
Mike Perry definitely from a much gentler, friendlier time :)
ReplyDeleteI remember the old tin signs on the post box.
ReplyDeletetina chapman Thank you. I rarely travel on buses now but as a child it was my only form of transport. Happy days, when there was a conductor as well as a driver on each bus.
ReplyDeleteElite Cleaning Ltd. I think though that perhaps, at times, I remember some things with selective memory.
ReplyDeleteDarran Hughes Otherwise we mightn't have realised they were post boxes :-)
ReplyDeleteI remember the British postal system as being extremely fast and two deliveries each day. I could send for my annual MOT disc from Outer Suffolk over to Swansea and have the new disc the next afternoon. Oh, and we had a post box in the village marked "VR" which I took to mean it was installed during the reign of Victoria, Regina.
ReplyDeleteMike Martin Those were the days of a top class postal system, unfortunately things aren't so good nowadays (at least not in my area). Only one delivery a day. We still have one of those 'VR' Queen Victoria boxes near us.
ReplyDeleteWonderful to have such a photo!
ReplyDeleteThis England has not completely disappeared.
ReplyDeleteLast year in London, I took a Central Line tube train to Epping in the outer suburbs. A vintage bus like the one on the post was standing in front of the station to carry me to North Weald where a steam train was waiting on the platform.
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Ann Kennedy Thanks Ann.
ReplyDeleteLaurent TRUILLET Yes, you can still find parts of England that remain the same. But where I used to live the whole character has changed. It's a different place now but I'd better not expand on that here.
ReplyDeleteMike Perry I agree with you.
ReplyDeleteMy England of my first trip in 1957 has completely disappeared.
Although this topic is "Vintage Life" and perfectly in the scope of this community, I agree that we have not enough room to expand on that here.