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Interesting, but is it pronounced 'Yedding' or 'Yeeding'?

solar penguin | 28.01.19 - 7:15 a.m. | #

Perhaps the reason they haven't gone for Dg's "Yeading Reading" suggestion is that it's the former?

Leo | 28.01.19 - 7:21 a.m. | #

Which reminds me of one of my favourite bits of trivia: the national dyslexia centre is located in Reading!

Leo | 28.01.19 - 7:22 a.m. | #

Leading on Yeading provided interesting reading.

Waterhouse | 28.01.19 - 7:27 a.m. | #

I have never heard of this place before, and yet have seen reference to it two days in a row - I accidentally got on the bus to Yeading yesterday while trying to manoeuvre my way around Ealing. Looks like I didn’t miss too much after alighting!

Matthew | 28.01.19 - 7:39 a.m. | #

I think it's a record to have someone ask a question that's answered in the first three words of the post :)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 28.01.19 - 7:42 a.m. | #

Now, now DG. It is early!

scrumpy | 28.01.19 - 7:55 a.m. | #

Sorry, the question was supposed to be gently sarcastic based on the 'Yeading Reading' not working with 'Yedding'. (Next time I'll try to really exaggerate the sarcasm so it comes across in the text.)

dg writes: And so will I.

solar penguin | 28.01.19 - 8:17 a.m. | #

When I knew someone who lived their they always said "Yedding".

John | 28.01.19 - 8:21 a.m. | #

Whats the eight banned things shown in the Willow Tree Open Space picture?, I can't see a list on their website.

dg writes: Those wishing to discuss prohibitions in the Willow Tree Open Space can do so here.

Still Anon | 28.01.19 - 9:03 a.m. | #

It's bleeding Yeeding innit?

Milo | 28.01.19 - 9:54 a.m. | #

I see you didn't venture as far as Willow tree Marina. It's always intrigued me as I've driven down the Parkway as it is signposted off willow tree roundabout. Yeading has never struck me as a boating centre. Picture 2 evokes many memories for me as our coach broke down there whilst going to Scout camp in Somerset in 1974. We managed the 4 miles from Harrow in 7 hours including 6 parked up at that shopping parade. we then arrived at the camp at 4am the following morning once we were piled into the back of a windowless Transit van rather than travelling by coach

peewit | 28.01.19 - 10:23 a.m. | #

The only time I've knowingly been to Yeading is when I used to drive a route 90B back in the 80s which used to terminate at the White Hart (with peak hour journeys extended to Northolt). Probably the only times I've actually set foot there was when I popped into the nearby garage for supplies whilst I was on a layover.

Tim | 28.01.19 - 10:44 a.m. | #

Being at the Hillingdon end of Harrow borough, the B&Q/Burger King are my nearest ones. The Starbucks is a 2017/18 interloper!
My only encounters with Yeading itself have been on the 140 bus heading to Uxbridge College (Hayes) for various parents evenings.

I have walked the Yeading Brook from source to Thames and it is nice - apart from the bit where I couldn't find my way down to the river path so had to walk along the Parkway instead *splutter, cough*. Ickenham Marshes were just that - very wet, but did see plenty of frogs spawn!

It's something I ought to do in its entirety again, but parts are a pain to get to if wanting to break it into sections so I tend to stick to just the easy bits between Harrow and Ruislip.

Cornish Cockney | 28.01.19 - 11:01 a.m. | #

Yeading rhymes with Reading the place name.

Keith | 28.01.19 - 11:08 a.m. | #

(sigh)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 28.01.19 - 11:09 a.m. | #

I used to work at Taylor Woodrow's. They always gave the address as Ruislip Road, Greenford, though most of it was on the Yeading side of the canal. The other day I was trying to work out where Ruislip Road, Northolt was, only to discover that it was the road that lead from Greenford towards Ruislip past the White Hart, Yeading. So though I thought my office was actually in Southall, perhaps it was in Yeading

Mike Roberts | 28.01.19 - 11:34 a.m. | #

"...one of the ugliest semi-detached houses I have ever seen."

It is really quite hideous. I wonder what it's like in the windowless corners of the downstairs rooms?

drfoop | 28.01.19 - 12:16 p.m. | #

My late dad was vaguely involved with Yeading FC before they merged with Hayes. When my very amateur football team needed a ground to play a group of Inter Milan fans we hired out The Warren for a couple of hundred quid and had a blast, it was a lovely pitch to play on and they looked after a load of very bemused Italian fans who assumed they'd just be playing us in a local park. The club were very proud of the Bend It Like Beckham link and had loads of photos in the club house. The commercial manager was Bill Perryman (brother of former Spurs captain Steve) and they were a leading non-league club who for their size did very well, Bill ran the club really well. Such a shame they had to merge with Hayes as this never seemed to work, they fell away as you rightly noted. A great community football club, I hope the new ground sends them back in the right direction.

EssDee | 28.01.19 - 12:46 p.m. | #

The blank wall of the semi-D may not be as silly as it looks, regarding what it must be like on the inside. It's just about right for accommodating what now counts as an average-size tv screen.

NickW | 28.01.19 - 1:43 p.m. | #

Those who object to "Yeading Reading" seem to be unfamiliar with the concept of eye rhymes

Malcolm | 28.01.19 - 2:34 p.m. | #

I wouldn't say that Yeading FC's merger with Hayes was a complete failure. After all, they managed to get promoted to the Conference National in only their second season and managed to spend 3 seasons there. It was when they started groundsharing that the decline set in.

X-Plaistow | 28.01.19 - 2:38 p.m. | #

Just hearing the name Yeading reminds me of getting lost June 1957. Friend and I had cycled to visit one of his family, and we got lost. By that row of shops you show in your article we asked for help.

YDU | 28.01.19 - 2:45 p.m. | #

The Willow Tree pub (now demolished), by quite some way, is quite the most unpleasant pub I have ever been to in my life. And I have been to some unpleasant pubs in my time.

I didn't even realise it was in Yeading, though, just thinking it was in (just another) grim bit of Hayes.

Dominic H | 28.01.19 - 6:27 p.m. | #

I used to watch Yeading FC (and, occasionally, Hayes) as a student, living in the tower block overlooking the bypass not far from The Warren. I recall them signing a defender called Park Kyung-Hoon, who was terrible in his first game. We later discovered that he had 94 caps for South Korea.

Coincidentally, I was watching Hayes and Yeading on Saturday, in a very entertaining 2-2 draw with Ashford Town. I hadn't seen them play as a merged team before.

I think DG has summed up my memories of Yeading very well. It's a place which is spectacular in its ordinariness.

Isambard | 28.01.19 - 9:34 p.m. | #

This not-so-attractive village isn’t far from me in Ruislip Gardens where I live not far from Yeading Brook with a nice walkway... my closest B&Q, Morrison’s and Burger King are here and there’s some decent-looking restaurants or areas around it.
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Jenn | 28.01.19 - 11:37 p.m. | #

Where the retail park is there used to be a large BT Motor Transsport depot. They taught all their apprentices to drive, and did so for other company personnel, if they had a frequent need to travel by road on company business. They did this for me in the mid eighties (I was a systems analyst working on the company's computer payroll).

I lived in east London and the instructor was out of the MT depot in Higham's Park. I failed my first test around the streets of Ilford. The second test I had to drive right across London to take the test at Yeading, where I passed.

I'd probably never have heard of Yeading were it not for that. Certainly nobody else I've mentioned it to had ever heard of it, even life-long londoners like me.

Gripper | 29.01.19 - 12:41 a.m. | #

@Gripper - Snap!
I've also only previously heard of Yeading via a list of BT Motor Transport Workshops (or MTWs as we knew them).

Frank F | 29.01.19 - 8:16 a.m. | #











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