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Dear Readers
We are sourcing what we can from the Library’s holdings and have added 1940-1941, 1943-1950 in the last 24 hours.
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/id/staffordshire-sentinel
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A group of my young friends would meet up at the end of Willow Road and cross over Southbury Road. Quite safe as in the late 40’s there was very little traffic only the odd bus. Then into the Savoy Cinema to the ABC Minors. We always went to the Savoy even though in the town near the market square was the Rialto Cinema and the Saturday morning the Rialto Rovers. The fllams we watched were Dick Barton, a Roy Rogers and cartoon films like Mickey Mouse about two hours and all for 6old pence !
During the summer we would walk along Southbury Road to the Swimming Pool I can still recall the creocete smells of the changing rooms and the pool water. All of these buildings Savoy Cinema, the. Swimming Pool andinncluding the Enfield Town Football Stadium have been cleared away the ABC Cinema to a Tesco supermarket the Rialto Became a Bigo hall and the Swimming Pool and Football Stadium an out of town multi screen Cinema. Even where I took my apprentaship in Ferguson television factory (Thorn Electrical Industries) and the Thorn office block with a fountain on the corner between Southbury. Road and the Cambridge Road (A10) have been whipped out for out of town shops.
How Enfield has changed since I moved to Rochford in 1961 When I got married.
Peter Frier a once Enfield Towner living in 200 Willow Road from the 1938through the war years and then on to 1961.Barry
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We moved to Watford in 1943. My war time memories are of night after night in the shelters, the "doodle bugs" and the boys playing Germans and soldiers on the bomb site next door. My special memories are of Cassiobury Park where we used to watch the barges on the Grand Union Canal, in 1947 tobogganing down the "Pudding Bowl" on the golf course.My great friend and I would explore the old Mill - said to be haunted, ride to the Bluebell woods at the end of Cassiobury Drive - avoid the RAF camp and the guard dogs - and before we moved away in 1952 cycle to Hunton Bridge with my brother and his friends to train spot