A fascinating programme on Radio 4.
As many of you know I was born exactly six months before VE Day on May 8th, 1945.
We soon moved from Acton to 16 Toley Avenue, in Preston Road, Wembley. A short distance down Toley Ave was Ledway Drive that led up to Barn Hill Pond.
A review of Barn Hill Pond by a dog walker, Tara Furlong, in 2020.
It’s a pond on top of a hill, which gets smaller depending on how hot and dry the summer is. It has been known to have sightings of its own grey heron, mallards on occasion, etc. Fish may lurk in its depths, and frogspawn in the spring. There are views of Wembley, and across to central London from the trig point nearby, and aspirations to open up the view to Harrow-on-the-Hill. Take a little wander and you may spy St Paul’s Cathedral. A small number of benches are available, and the bins overflow in fine weather. There’s nothing but green space and houses nearby. It’s accessible via a fairly short, steep uphill walk on uneven ground from the unserviced car park, which can get very busy; or from Wembley Park. Photos on a typical British day – i.e. a bit cloudy and soggy.
Click this link in Google to view the scene.
As a young boy I well remember looking out from Barn Hill and seeing the devastation of the property from the Nazi bombers.
There are twenty programmes on Radio 4 that are about this postwar period in Britain. I have listened to the first three and have found them deeply interesting. Anyone interested in British history is recommended to listen to them. That is the link.
Learning from Dogs 
There are some good Radio 4 programs Paul, .. My dad and his friends were playing as children in a field in Derbyshire, when a young girl thought the low flying plane coming over was one of ours and waved to it… The boys told her to get down as they didn’t recognise it, but it looked in trouble… It crashed apparently a few miles further on… Look up the Bleaklow Bomber.. “The aircraft crashed at Higher Shelf Stones on the Bleaklow moorland plateau near Glossop in Derbyshire on 3 November 1948.”,,
Wishing you and Jean a peaceful weekend xx
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Sue, I looked up that crash of the Bleaklow Bomber; that was a tragic mistake. But have you listened to the programmes that I provided the link to? I hope you have done because I find them deeply fascinating. But then again maybe it’s me because of my birth date.
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I haven’t listened to those particular ones Paul, but I fo catch niw and again some interesting things on Radio 4.
Have a peaceful weekend xx
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