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(Source: John Morton)

First Communicants, June 1945
John is at the back, at the extreme right, I think. Terry Divan is in front of him, to his right. (or is that Just Wiilliam ?)
Fr John Maguire, as the recently-appointed Parish Priest, is at the back.
In the second row from the front we have Tony Divan (second left), standing next to Frank Tolman.
In the front, Sheila Merrifield is second from the right.

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(Source: Mrs Sheila Steggal)

In the grounds of the Church, opposite the Lourdes Grotto. Early fifties ?
A group of White Fathers who are largely unknown to me, though I do recogise a couple of faces.
The only one I can name is Fr Michael Coghlan, second from the right, who was Procurator at The Priory in 1955/6 and
the last pp at the church which was once The Priory's Chapel at Bishop's Waltham before the diocese took over.
(That Chapel was demolished and a new church was built to replace it. It's new name? ' Our Lady Queen of Apostles' ! )

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(Source: Eugene MacBride)

Mary Logan, who was housekeeper at Heston and other WF houses (Totteridge, Palace Court and Holland Villas)
She was the cousin of Brother Aidan (Brother John Ryan), who introduced her to the White Fathers. Mary died in October 1999
Can you remember and the period in which she worked at Heston ?

(Source: Paul West)

The rear of the White Fathers' house and the chapel
Pictured are my older brother John and me, probably in the summer of 1952, judging by
the innocent demeanour of the shorter one


(Source: David Rose)

Another view of the old church — one which is likely to be more familar to most people
(Probably taken in the fifties)

Who is the child standing at the entrance ?
David thinks that it is John Healy. (And he should know because he took the picture).



(Source: David Rose)

The altar of the old church - just as I remember it.
Note : The door to the left was the sacristy and the one on the right was where the altar servers got dressed — and prepared
the thurible for High Mass (one of the highlights of our duties).

Many of my childhood memories are of serving at early weekday Mass. This was particularly special in the winter because it
involved getting up very early in the dark and skidding along the frosty roads towards the church when virtually nobody else was
about. Often the church was in darkness when I arrived and that was a bit scary for me as a young lad.

David Rose was a fellow altar-server, of course, along with my brother John, John and Andy Morton, John Healy, John and Paul Tait,
Richard and Anthony Sainsbury and — not forgetting the older boys / men , such as John Traynor, John and David Bloomfield et al.

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