September 2019 - Phil Andrews

It’s a Beautiful Noise – 1976, the Year of Concorde

September 30, 2019November 6, 2023Phil AndrewsLeave a Comment

I first saw Concorde fly over my home in 1970. I was eight years of age, and the Anglo-French supersonic jetliner was landing at London’s Heathrow airport, under the flightpath of whose Runway 28-Left my Isleworth home was located. My late father, who saw it too, was unconvinced. He told me it was a Vulcan […]

A Giant Slayed in the Sun – The 1976 FA Cup Final

September 27, 2019November 6, 2023Phil AndrewsLeave a Comment

. On 13th December 1975 my own team, Brentford, then plying their trade in English league football’s fourth tier, won a comfortable 2-0 victory at the appropriately named Plough Lane, home of non-league Wimbledon, in the second round of the FA Cup. I attended the match with my mate Tim, in whose company I would […]

The Early History of Worple Road Infant and Worple Road Mixed Schools 1897-1927 by Ken Noakes – Review

September 20, 2019April 21, 2026Phil AndrewsLeave a Comment

The scene is set with a reminder that 1897 is Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee year and, needless to say, for the children who were to become the first pupils at the brand new Worple Road Infant School in Isleworth this was an occasion like not many other. On March 1st of that year they took up their places at the school, resplendent as it was with all the latest technology in the form of gas lamps and coal fires.