Harold Hill Estate - The First Settlers (with optional subtitles) 

@@eirlysseldon7834 thank you for posting your Harold Hill connection. I used to know a David Lawrence who was in the same class as myself at Quarles school back in the late 1960s.

@@RileysRamblesCentral Was he Welsh ?

@@eirlysseldon7834 not as far as I am aware. Quite a Harold Hillian I would say

@@RileysRamblesCentral his daughters were Ann and Kay ,they’d be in their early seventies now

I feel they served a very great purpose at the time. Thank you for your feedback 👍

I guess one of the Originals, 1949. Thanks for viewing from Canada 😎👍

A true Hillian (born at home). Echo everything you said. I was an Oldchurch Hospital Baby

Thank you very much 👍

Wow, I hope it was ok to use the photo Martin ? I lifted it from the Internet at random, thought it was a meaningful photo to fit in with the important story I was telling. Had you seen the photo before ? I guess it must have come as a bit of shock to encounter it. Best wishes Pete Riley 👍😎

Hi Pete, No problem with using the photo, it actually comes from a very short film with them walking down the street towards the camera. It has been used in books and videos about the blitz. We told the lady, my mother in law about it and she is the babe in arms in the photo. Sadly the two young girls in the pram, sisters of the baby, have both recently died, one in December and other one died only last week. As I said, nobody knows who the little boys was, there were 9 children in that family, but he is not one of them. I found out that the picture was taken on sept 8th 1940, the day after the first day of the Blitz. This is Poplar High Street. I was interested in your video, as I used to live in Romford and spent sometime in Harold Hill and knew people in that area. We had seen the photo before and we have a blown up photo in a frame in our house, I also found the video and slowed it down a bit, as it is short and added some poignant music to it. It was a pleasant surprise to see it on your video.

@@martinfey4134 thank you Martin. Thank you for sharing the very interesting back story to this photo taken on 8th Sept 1940 during the Blitz. I can see why this photo means a lot to you and your family. The photo now has an extra resonance for me. Being you have lived in Harold Hill you might be interested in a video I put together regarding Lady Neave’s newspaper account of the time, telling the story of day one of the Blitz (7th Sept 1940) AKA “Black Saturday”, as it hit her Dagnam Park Estate on Harold Hill and London. If you have not already seen it you will find it on my You Tube Channel. Cheers !

Thanks Alan 👍