Kew Gardens in Richmond - your opinions please

[lisalisa]

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ok !

Obviously I'm biased

If anyone would like me to revisit the scenes of their youth and post photos then do say...!

where in Kew are you kewcumber- give mer a cryptic clue if you don't want to divulge !

I used to go to the ice rink too. My mum even made me go when I had a broken arm because she'd paid for the lessons . Fair enough she didn't know then it was broken but it was agonising and at a funny angle .

Now that's more like it. Parenting today. Pah. All namby pamby rubbish.

I'm near the retail park (slightly closer to the tube)

aah, I see...I grew up just off Kew Green and then lived on Kew Rd and Mortlake Rd

I'm going to Ricmond tomorrow actually - my mum still lives there. I often wonder if any of the people I see in Waitrose while I'm doing her shopping are Mumsnetters!

And I used to go to school on the 65 bus!

you might see kewcumber ! I haven't been to Richmond for the 3 yrs since I moved away..used to love the shops there

65 bus was mine (and 27 when it went to Richmond)

no,wait, my school bus was the 90b !
which school seeker ?

good grief do people really think 8 and 11 years olds wouldn't like Kew. I had a lovely day there with my my niece and nephew at this age (and also another visit when they were younger)

Richmond park is nice too though and it is free - so a big bonus

I think 8 and 11 year olds would love Kew. It's the littler ones I wasn't so sure about.

I went to the 6th form at St Anne's in Ealing. on the 65 bus from Richmond. What memories, what memories!

Good lord I've come over all wibbly (like they used to do in films when there was a non-scary flashback)

Swimming pool, all day, every day in summer hols.

Shopping for grown up clothes for first time in the High Street with my mother.. always crap for shoes though.

65

27

290!!! To Hammersmith - guess which school? (M and J I think you know through witchandchips...)

onebatmother, are you another G&L gel? Did I know that already? I knew I liked you

33 was my bus. Teddington to Hammersmith via Richmond [fall asleep with boredom smiley]. I have never recovered from that commute. But a very cute blonde boy did used to get on in Richmond (outside Wendy's). Think he went to St Pauls....23 years on and I'm still wondering about him

my niece was a G&L girl... bit more recently than you though MArgo

Yes!!
witchandchips spotted me because I mentioned poor Miss Lowndes..

Ah, the buses. I used to have a huge crush on a St Paul's boy called Featherstonehaugh who got on the 290..

Gosh, I wonder who yours was? Did you ever go to the Lyric after school?

DID THE fEATHERSTONEHAUGH BOY LIVE IN kEW (oops) - not that I knew him, but there was a family of that name in Forest Rd possibly.
Did anyone remember a family called the Motts ?

MaryAnn, I thought they lived in Lower Hammersmith you know, St Peters Square and below..

He got on just after Chiswick Lane.

Ah, good times. In part.

oh, can't be same then...I used to house sit in St Peter's Square - fab houses

seeker - sorry, nosy - did you go to a Richmond/Kew primary or secondary before 6th form ?

There can't be that many Featherstonehaugh's in London though, surely?

Yes, very lovely houses, true. Dream houses, really.

Miss Lowndes? I don't remember her. Was there a scandal? I was only there for three years so was always a bit behind the curve on all gossip and in-talk (like knowing the school song and having the so-unfashionable-it's-fashionable gingham summer dress which you weren't allowed to buy anymore when I was there but could wear if it was handed down from a sister).

Kew, did your niece like it there? I loved it, I must say.

yes she loved it - was head of hockey or netball or both (can't really remember) at Oxford now so really only very recently left.

very nervy music teacher, with owl glasses margo.. we were rather merciless, and I still feel very guilty to this day.. think she left shortly after.

Think you might be a leeetle bit younger than me as well (born 1968..)