In Conversation with Don Walter
Don Walter is long term resident and leading Local Historian. He has published numerous books on the history of Harrow including ‘Look Back at Harrow: 150 Years in Stories and Pictures’ (1995), ‘Harrow: The Story of a Millennium’ (1999) and ‘Harrow Then & Now’ (2011). He has also been a part of numerous events and projects including the … Continue reading
From the Archives… A Right Royal Occasion – Celebrating the Jubilees
In the last few years it has felt impossible to escape Royal celebrations, as quickly as the bunting is taken down it goes straight back up for the next occasion: weddings, jubilees, coronation anniversaries even babies. We’ve had the lot. The souvenir tea-towel business has been in overdrive. During the extensive media coverage of each … Continue reading
My Harrow – Living, Working and Enjoying Myself 1956 – 1982
The following is from an interview with Ms Westwood a resident of Harrow between 1956 and 1982 who kindly shares her memories of Harrow. Additional information, dates and facts are provided in square brackets. When did you move to Harrow? I moved to West Harrow from Paddington, London in March 1956 when I was in my … Continue reading
A Scandal in Harrow: Illegitimate Children Part Two
Admittedly the previous posts connection to Harrow was a little thin and certainly not recalled from my own memory! However the story is an important and interesting one which serves to deepen the relationship between Harrow and Byron, one which is readily called to mind when thinking of ‘famous people’ from the area. On initial appearances the … Continue reading
A Scandal in Harrow: Illegitimate Children Part One
It’s reasonably well known that Harrow once gave home and provided schooling to a young Lord Byron one of Britain’s most famous poets. It has become difficult to think of the Romantic Movement, which celebrated the free expression of the feelings of the artist through visual art, music and literature without thinking of Byron. His infamous … Continue reading
Single Ticket from Metro-land to Zone 5
Suburb, n. The area immediately outside a town or city; the area belonging to a town or city that lies immediately outside its walls or boundaries. Now: the outlying parts of a city (either beyond or just within the city boundaries), typically residential in nature; the parts of a city outside the commercial and … Continue reading
Memories of a Family of Chimney Sweeps and Voluntary Firemen
Chim chim-in-ey, chim chim-in-ey Chim chim cher-ee! A sweep is as lucky, as lucky can be Chim chim-in-ey, chim chim-in-ey Chim chim cher-oo! Good luck will rub off when I shakes ‘ands with you It’s difficult to think of Chimney Sweeps without thinking of the Bert in Mary Poppins his cheerful optimism, the chimney sweeps dance routine and often Dick Van … Continue reading
A Breif Introduction to the History of Harrow
Although Remembering Harrow is about telling local history in a new way focusing on memories and experiences, the history student in me just can’t help doing a bit of ‘traditional’ research finding a few facts, important dates and crucial contexts. And that’s what this post is, like an introductory essay to a literary classic; that … Continue reading
Remembering Harrow 