DAYS OUT and HOLIDAYS
Our one enjoyment was that as a railway family we could enjoy free travel for so many times of the year. we didnt need a car . To get to the station we hire a taxi and from then onways until we arrived at out destination we travelled by train.
In 1950`s to get across London it was easier to travel on the underground from mainline station to mainline station. Sometimes our luggage was sent on in advance. ready for us as we arrived at out hotel.
To keep costs down always we had sandwiches and a flask of hot drink.
Birmingham shops and markets.
With free travel we travelled to Birmingham New Street for a day out to stock up with meat and fruit and snacks from the markets.
London Zoo
We was lucky enough to ride on a camel and an elephant while visiting the zoo with our parents.
I had been to the zoo when i was about 7 years old. The Sunday school in Far Cotton Northampton had a trip to London Zoo
Heathrow.
Terminal 2 Queens Building. Roof Gardens. Lots of people plane spotting. I believe this has now been demolished.[2012] It was an exciting place to visit as the planes fly over our heads before landing.
Kensington Roof Gardens.
I would like to visit Kensington Roof Gardens high above the city . Now owned by Richard Branson. Built on the roof of a department store.
As we shopped in the 1950`s at Barkers store. My father would tell us that there was a garden built on the roof of Derry and Toms the Department Store in Kensington High Street. [ a garden in the sky.]He never did get to visit it.On telling my friend about the garden, in February 2012 she and her husband visited the gardens and was pleased they went. The flamingos and ducks were by the pond . They had their wings clipped so wont fly away over the roof tops of London.The staff were very pleasant and helpful.
Kensington High Street . London.
We would travel to Kensington High Street .London for clothes shopping. Visiting Barkers department store. The building is still there .
A whole foods market from Austin USA now occupy the building.
Sometimes it was for material to be made in to dresses or coats by a lady ,Mrs Ping who lived in Southampton Road Far Cotton. Northampton .
She earnt her living as a dressmaker.
Our mother liked to buy clothes there for us.Sometimes she would treat herself to a new hat.
She always wore a hat and carried them off really well. Something i havent been able to do.
One year i choose an imitation fur coat from Barkers Store in 1960`s. I still have the coat.
Another year our parents decided that we would have a kilt skirt made in our tartan. It was researched in a book on the premises of Barkers and found that we was entitled to wear a tartan in the name of Anderson.