please empty your brain below
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Maybe a polite “excuse me” would have done the trick. P.s. are you sure she was a fitness fanatic?
Jo W | 04.12.22 - 7:36 a.m. | #
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I think you can see Northwick Park Hospital in the distance on your sports field photo
John | 04.12.22 - 8:30 a.m. | #
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Having been born and lived in Canada during the explosion of Harry Potter Mania, my friends and I all thought she must be a genius to come up with this weird world of schools and their odd traditions and games. Now having lived in England for the last 14 years, I see how weird the real public schools are. Thanks for bringing the pork-pie football to my attention.
Greg | 04.12.22 - 9:45 a.m. | #
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Found it impossible to read past 15k per TERM. Still reeling from that reality to be honest.
Frank F | 04.12.22 - 9:59 a.m. | #
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Billings & Ed*munds* :p
Michael | 04.12.22 - 10:10 a.m. | #
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Stupid autocorrect. Edmonds.
Michael | 04.12.22 - 10:11 a.m. | #
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Waves to dg from a mile away at the bottom of the Hill! Indeed a lovely place for a wander.
Cornish Cockney | 04.12.22 - 10:15 a.m. | #
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This septegenarian is glad that the real Harrow is despoiled by red buses as it means I don't have to walk up the hill to get to the Castle!
Mike Roberts | 04.12.22 - 11:11 a.m. | #
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I took a similar walk there myself, a few years ago. Just a short time later, London Live were showing a film called Go Kart Go (1964, and featuring a very young Dennis Waterman) as part of a Children's Film Foundation season, and some of the scenes were immediately recognisable as having been shot around West Street and Crown Street.
As regards the church, it sounds like the path you chose not to take - the one which would have led to Churchfields - was the one I did. It might appear from the outside to be nothing more than a tangle of overgrown 'shrubbery' but there was a hidden surprise: it actually passes through a long-abandoned section of the graveyard.
RogerW | 04.12.22 - 11:15 a.m. | #
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At the bottom of the hill, but Northwick Park hospital (where Peter Andre was born) there is some woodland that amazingly still hasn't yet been developed.
In there, you can still find Harrow School's old outdoor swimming pool, which was called "The Ducker". My dad used to tell me about it.
Fond memories of Harrow on the Hill. On one of those windy roads you've described there was a small shop, with a sign in the window, saying "NEXT MEETING", then a date. This was mid 80s. No idea what they were meeting about...
Pedant | 04.12.22 - 12:13 p.m. | #
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Fascinating to see photos of a place so often mentioned, but never (in my experience) shown in pictures. Not sure what the "funny hats" reference is about, though.
cau1khead | 04.12.22 - 1:21 p.m. | #
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John, Sorry...pedant alert.
That building is part of the University of Westminster (ex Harrow Tech.)
Northwick Park Hospital is immediately to the right out of the picture. My 2 children were born there!!
MikeK | 04.12.22 - 2:07 p.m. | #
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Harrow on the hill station is one of those badly named ones, should be Harrow somewhere near the bottom of the hill.
Kev | 04.12.22 - 2:39 p.m. | #
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surprised you didn't reference this. Or is that your post for tomorrow?
dg writes: It's my post from 5946 days ago.
Peewit | 04.12.22 - 4:42 p.m. | #
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Whilst in the company of a former England rugby international, he asked me where I was from. On replying "Harrow" he was pleasantly surprised and informed me he had been at school there. I then stupidly asked "which one?", in the hope he may have attended my own comprehensive at the foot of the hill. He raised an eyebrow and smiled politely...
Cottonsocks | 04.12.22 - 5:23 p.m. | #
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This was surprisingly mean from you
Brixtoncat | 04.12.22 - 10:21 p.m. | #
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You've strayed from your general of avoiding people pics
Alan(oapski) | 05.12.22 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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That's a little mean and possibly even rude. Nobody can say what health difficulties that person might have which impacts their fitness, so they shouldn't be looked down on for having the balls to do it **in public**
Kilburn | 05.12.22 - 3:38 p.m. | #
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