W13 West Ealing
Shopping in 1990s West Ealing |
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The main shopping area in West Ealing was a vibrant place to be in the early 1990s. We did all of our clothes and food shopping there. There was a Marks & Spencers, BHS (or British Home Stores as my Grandad would call it), Woolworths and the old ladies of Daniels would interrogate you when you needed some more school uniform. We went food shopping in Sainsburys. We lived in Northfields, so we could have easily shopped in Ealing Broadway, but they had expensive clothes shops like Bentals and John Lewis. We were happy with West Ealing as it gave us all we wanted. |
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West Ealing changed in the mid-late 1990s. The big out of town supermarkets opened at Osterley and the Hoover Building. John Lewis first moved to a smaller shops and then closed all together and M&S took over the big shop in the middle of the Broadway. We started going to the bigger shops and left West Ealing behind. We did not even need to visit the old ladies in Daniels as my school started to sell trendy new unforms straight from the school. |
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I went back to West Ealing a few weeks ago. The centre is not like it used to be. The biggest change is at the junction of Northfield Avenue and the Uxbridge Road. My Grandad called it the lido. The cinema I just remember visiting in the 1980s and early 1990s has been demolished and you can now buy a flat on the site and Daniels has moved out its amazing 1930s shop and moved to a small shop along the road. Sad. |
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