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Fascinating as always.
I was brought up in Hayes and we played by the Yeading Brook where it cut through the Belmore Playing Fields - actually a large grassy patch with some swings. I had no ideal it was so extensive.
Richard Morris | 08.01.23 - 8:22 a.m. | #
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The Yeading brook is also very interesting especially around Ruislip Gardens and South Ruislip
Newcastle FC | 08.01.23 - 9:35 a.m. | #
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‘Offradar’?
David | 08.01.23 - 10:11 a.m. | #
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Well done for "finding" a new river to explore. I don't think I'll be following in your footsteps, but I've been meaning to visit the Polish War Memorial for years, just to see what it was like!
Mikey C | 08.01.23 - 10:21 a.m. | #
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Would you believe it! If it was yesterday morning that you passed through the Ecology Park you would normally have seen us volunteers hard at work, but this year we start back next Saturday after our break for Christmas instead! Glad you liked it though. It's not big, but very dear to us.
The Roxbourne's bigger sister, the Yeading Brook, usually gets all the attention.
We just refer to the area as South Harrow though the local ward is Roxbourne.
Cornish Cockney | 08.01.23 - 11:12 a.m. | #
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Look at the OS map 1912, 25 inch edition and there is another waterway from Harrow going straight to the Yeading Brook. Almost no trace now remains and it was unnamed.
Anthony Guter | 08.01.23 - 1:43 p.m. | #
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Wow DG! My old childhood stomping ground, I spent virtually every daylight leisure hour for a few formative years in Newton Park.
Your photo of the brook with St Andrews in the background is a spot where you would have found myself and various other wild children up to our ankles in the water. You could follow the brook to a tunnel that went under Malvern Avenue and into the grounds of the church, it became an initiation into our gang (very Secret Seven) if you were brave enough to stoop along its length and arrive blinking in the daylight at our bankside HQ.
We all went to school in Roxbourne and attended Venturers boys club and Sunday football club in said fields too. As we got older we could still be found in the park but it all gets a bit like the stream, much murkier. First kisses, cigarettes and drinks all sampled here as youths leaving disco behind and discovering Two-Tone and apparently a bleak life ahead of mass unemployment and general bleakness.Good times!
Many thanks for this very personal trip back to my square mile.
cottonsocks | 08.01.23 - 4:39 p.m. | #
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Good to see you are in my part of the world. I work part time in the row of shops you passed on Field End Road (not tesco, boots or greggs).
David | 08.01.23 - 5:17 p.m. | #
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What's troubled about the A40 junction? I know it as the one where the traffic has probably sped up by now.
Toby | 08.01.23 - 6:23 p.m. | #
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