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From time to time Ruislip
Online is sent pictures or pieces that do not fall in to any real category. For
this reason this page has been created. A mishmash of all things sent to me that
are to do with Ruislip, (or will be of interest to those from Ruislip) that just
do not have a box to go in! Pop your e-mail address
in the box to the left to be advised of any new information coming up on this page. Please note Ruislip Online
does NOT hold copyright to just about everything on this page!!!
These items are offered here as, generally, they are of historical interest to
those that might visit this site. If you own copyright to anything you see here
then you are invited to contact Ruislip
Online and it will be removed forthwith.
Above St Martin's Church in 1987,
note the long grass in the churchyard! (Comments from a
visitor to Ruislip Online, can you help? info@ruislip.co.uk if you can)
And another in the "Blue Circle"
(?) where the children were from Exmouth Road (could be VJ day?)
Where MacDonald's now stands we
once had a cinema, which, in the 60's was clad in bacofoil!
Embassy being demolished
Embassy being demolished
Victoria Road where it meets
Cornwall Road
This was knocked down to make way
for Sainsbury's, which itself was knocked down for The Thomas More
Building. See
The picture above is described as a "Canadian Army Hut
and was in the grounds of Harefield Hospital - does anyone remember it.
If so e-mail me
The Dakota on the roof of a house subsequently named "Dakota Rest",
Angus Drive, South Ruislip, from 19th December 1946
Amazing pictures of the
best Rolls Royce in the world!
London ring road planned. Most of Ruislip Manor
affected!!!! (Click on image left to view) ......and whilst we are on this subject
of maps, take a look at
the map on the left (click on it to enlarge it) and have a look at the
playing field for Queensmead School - in it you will see there are two
roads!!! This map also shows another common local error, with Exmouth
Drive joining Queens Walk - it never did!
Harrow Aerodrome - had
it been built much of Ruislip would not!!
1959
1959
1959
1959
Above, general series
taken on or around Northolt The (in)famous Pan Am
Boing 707 that landed at RAF Northolt by mistake on October 25th 1960.
The pilot thought it was Heathrow!!!! The pictures left and
right are copyright to the
George Trussell Collection. Permission has kindly been given to use
them here.
Left and right, copy of a
Xmas card that Morris of the Manor would send out to their customers.
(If anyone has a picture
of this shop you are asked to contact Ruislip Online)
The train pictured left
was lost...very lost!!!!
If you have found this page of
interest then you can see a number of pictures more loosely related to Ruislip
and sent in by one visitor here There is another fascinating
page all about what is was like in Hillingdon
to be aged six and have diphtheria (in 1935!). Read it
here. The piece below recounts memories of an ARP post in
the war.
"THE WARDENS OF H4
POST, WISH TO PLACE ON RECORD THEIR GRATEFUL THANKS & APPRECIATION, TO
THE MISSES COOK, OF 51 MANOR WAY, RUISLIP M'DSX, FOR THEIR GREAT
KINDNESS & GENEROSITY, IN SUPPLYING COFFEE, SANDWICHES & CAKES, ON EVERY
NIGHT THAT THE POST WAS OPEN FROM THE OUTBREAK OF WAR WITH GERMANY ON
SEPTEMBER 2ND 1939, UNTIL THE STAND DOWN OF THE CIVIL DEFENCE SERVICES
ON MAY 2ND 1945.
J.C. Lewis (Post
Warden), R. E. Williams (Deputy Post Warden), H. E. Browne, E. L.
Bruguier, P. G. Edwards, J. A. Fuggle, A. E. Green, G. N. Green, W. F.
Hall, F. Keane, W. Scott, J. A. Scrivener, F. D. Simpkins, A. V.
Thurston, H. B. Watts, H. Williams, F. Winton.
I remember the Misses
Cook clearly, and some of the Wardens named.
The address measure
10 by 12 inches and is illuminated in colour and gilt. I don't recall
which if the wardens executed this work but do recall one of them was a
draughtsman, Scrivener perhaps?. I inherited the address in its present,
original frame. It hangs in our front hall so the patriotic efforts of
these two ladies is not forgotten!
Monitor page
for changes
I would like to get the names that come with these faces in the football
team above. I remember the faces but only three of the names plus
myself. I am 3rd from the left in the back row, Brian Moore is beside me
and Derek Young is 6th from the left , back row. Jim Dawes is 2nd from
left in front row. I think this team represented Ruislip or Ruislip
Manor and I think we played near Hillingdon.
Ref famous team photo, memories dim as time passes but: Back row left -
(Sir) Jack Norbury, next to him Jimmy Sharpe. As for me I am second from
right in front row (where I got that Med tan I don't know) Best Regards
Alan Barnett
Pictures from a VE Day party in Ladygate Lane.
Left, VE day party Exmouth Road
I have just come
across this old photo (left) of a V J Party taken in 1945. It was at the end of Elmbridge Close as you can see we had a bonfire on the road a few days
before, I was ten years old at the time. There was a footpath which led to a
narrow lane which ran down beside our house to the Ruislip or Eastcote
Tennis Club. I left Ruislip when I was sixteen my parents moved to Cornwall,
where I have lived ever since. It was most interesting to see the photos of
the MOD Buildings, also to learn something of what went on there, we used
the footpath when we were going to the pictures or shops in Eastcote as I
remember it cost us 7d or seven old pennies the cheapest seats of course.
Also the photos of Highgrove House which was opposite our house we used to
go across the field there was a moat in front of the house where we caught
newts, we scrumped apples from the orchard and at the bottom of the garden
was a large pond where we caught water snakes. during the war we followed
barrage balloons that broke loose and collected shrapnel and bullets that
could be found after most raids. I also have many memories walking across the
common and through the woods to the Lido we even skated on it during the
winter
To the left is a
photograph of a group of A.R.P. Wardens taken I believe in about 1940.
They manned Post K4 which was situated in the field off Beverley Road,
Ruislip Manor (I think it is now a school site and may have been called
Bessingby Road playing field). My father Herbert Henry Hunt is at the
left of the photograph on the back row, but I do not know the names of
the other men (the warden top row second from the right has since been
named as Sidney Chapman).
At the outbreak of war in September 1939 there was no telephone at the
Warden's post and as we were one of the few families in Beverley Road to
have a telephone and my father was an A.R.P. Warden living near to the
A.R.P. Post, all calls warning of air raids were to have been made to
our home. There would have been an amber warning for approaching enemy
aircraft followed by a red warning for an imminent attack. On receipt of
the amber warning I had to run to the Warden's Post to tell them to get
ready to sound the warning siren and when a red warning came through I
had to run to the Post again so that the siren would be sounded.
Fortunately this arrangement lasted only a short time before the
Warden's Post was connected to the telephone and I did not have to carry
out this duty.
(Derek Hunt)
New Ruislip
The three pictures above
almost certainly came from a book promoting living in Ruislip Manor, put
out by Manor Homes
Even more amazingly there is no connection between the owner of this car
and the owner of the Honda on the right, but they live in the same city.
They do not even know each other!!
The Ship used to stand on Joel Street,
Eastcote
The information above showing shops in Park Way and the index of
advertisers comes from a 1948 Booklet.
Post H4. This was
initially a sunken structure on the triangle at the intersection of
Manor Way with Midcroft but was moved later to an above surface shelter
on the green where West Hatch Manor and Manor Way meet. I have an
illuminated address prepared in ornate calligraphy by one of the wardens
that was presented to the Misses Cook. It reads as follows:
