This used to be the Guestbook for the popular website, hayesmiddlesex.com which sadly no longer exists. Sorry about that. Many of the photos submitted to the site live on in the albums at westlondonchat.com/photos (if that still works when you see this!)

Great site!

born there

gledwood dr

46-56

great sunny long summer days,scrumping both apples & victoria plumbs, riding my bike every where Windsor Castle Runneymede lots of freedom. Joining Junos a sort of scout troup? joining life boys. Bird watching the Ornithological Society on the coucil property on Church Rd,

I would love to contact the boys and girls from Gledwood Park Junior School Raymond Canavan, Kenneth Ovenden, Graeme Mc Cleod, Caroline Wigamore, Brian Lewis, and my cousin Peter White. Hayes in those days was a great place for a child to grow up. Currently I live in Canada and have done so for 40YRS I\'d love to hear from anyone of this era.

Raised, educated in Hayes

Internet search

Photographs

Minet Drive

1952-1970

Too many to re-call. But as I went to Townfield junior and secondary modern school, 1952-58 I wonder if anyone remembers me. I recall many faces but names are a bit thin - a guy called Ian who went onto work for Trico on the Gt West Road at Brentford. And a blond-haired girl called Lesley who lived in Botwell Crescent, near Hayes Park, in 1958, and went to Townfield SM girls school whom I met when I was in shorthand and typing classes and later at evening school. Lesley went onto work for EMI.

Great website, great content, not the easiest though to naviagte!

lived in hayes from 1940 till 1964

accident

history

if you remember me e mail me

raynton drive

1940 till 1964

mellow lane school bottwell common concervative club hayes cricket club in 1944 picking up shranel and tail finns from incendary bombs as keepsakes

if you remember me e mail me at michael65ss@yahoo.com I KNOW LIVE IN PRESCOTT ARIZONA USA

resident since 1968

friend mentioned it

The memories it brings back

Try and get more...love the photos

Coldharbour Lane (Still in same house now)

1968-present

Soooo many. I even saw pictures of coldharbour Farm Which used to be just opposite wher i live...i think its cotmans close now! Remember..Going to Paynes gift shop with my mum...and there used to be a tiny little toy shop opposite where cancer research shop is now... And you used to bea able to walk through hays town...without having to look at litter and graffitti, and gangs of hoodies! I remember lillies and if you was nice th lady used to give you an apple...and people always were nice and polite and had time to stop and say hello. My mum was the manageress in lillies and in then in the little sub post office.

Oh i have soooo enjoyed looking through this site...so many childhood memories. I wish this place was still the same...i would have loved to have brought my child up here...then!!!! not now...its disintigrated to a ghetto...filled with rubbish... what a shame!!! I dont ever go into hayes town now...i hate it!

born and bred

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east ave and browngraves road

1973 to 1999

through traffice in town
Shopper Paradise on a saturday morning
Nicks the hairdressers

crime watch tonight, a somalian attacks a girl then beats her black and blue, what is going on with people like this, they are meant to be visitors here and this is how they repay every.

Born there

Surfing

Photographs

Bourne Avenue

1954 - 1975

Pinkwell School
Harlington School
Airport Bowl
All of the small "discos" and the clubs "Birds Nest" etc

I was there visiting my Father in 2009 for his 80th birthday. I have been back every two to three years and Hayes is no the same by a long shot. When I was a kid there was well kept rose gardens and lawns in the public places they seem to have disappeared, the town looks cheap and dirty.
I am glad I no longer live there but I miss some of the old days.

I wonder if you would be good enough to ask for volunteer drivers for the day Centre at Michael Sobell House which is in the grounds of Mount vernon Hospital in Northwood.

>> VOLUNTEER DRIVERS WANTED <<



Are you friendly and reliable?
Do you have access to your own vehicle?
Would you like to join our excellent team?
Are you able to spare around 2 hours a week?

IF THE ANSWER IS YES TO THE ABOVE,
THEN WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!


We would like to hear from anyone who is able to pick up from the following areas:

Hayes  West Drayton  Sipson




For more details contact:
Louise Gourlay, Volunteer Services Manager
Tel: 01923 844569 or Email: louisegourlay@nhs.net

Moved to Hayes in 1973 age 3

Hayes search in google

all the blogs and photos ..lots if info

post more pictures from the past..bike gangs..mods rockers..dances..awaydays

gledwood drive

1973 - Present

..skateboarding down Gledwood Drive in the mid 70's.. empty streets because of Borg & McEnroe on the telly..learnig to ride a bike on a blazing summers day.. falling in the brook near Barnhill.. ..Beef Monster Munch.
Buying stamps from a small stamp shop on the Ux Rd.. Annoying Steve Perryman....playing on the mud mounds while the Beck was being built.

would like more post from old mods and rockers.. stories about the area and what you got up to.. photos would be great too.. would be nice to compile a photo study of the 'gangs' in Hayes..if you have any thing to tell please post.
Any Ace Cafe stories? Did you hang out at the Coffee Bean.. ??
Anything like this would be a great read.. and could be a great book?