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The White Hart was situated on Greenford Road. This pub has now been demolished.

Source: Darkstar

I lived in this pub as a child from 1949 to 1959. I am a member of the Perou family who ran pubs for several generations all over London . I decided that there were easier ways making a living. The pub had been designed for a generation with live in servants and there were only three of us so we rattled in the living space. We lived in the ground floor ,kitchen, scullery, and 'office', a small room behind the bar where my father did his paperwork and where the telephone and TV were situated. It was also the warmest rooms in the house bar the bars which were heated by open coke fires. There was no central heating. The bedrooms were freezing in winter. The pub was operated by my my father alone, with the help of part time staff. There were three cleaners in the morning and two or three bar tenders in the evening. These staff seemed to stay for ever. I cannot remember many changes. My father's Day was long. It started at eight with bar replenishment, cellar work and paperwork. The pub opened at eleven until half past two when we had lunch and my father got his head down until six when it opened again. Most evenings he took it easy after seven when the bar staff arrived. He ran the pub until he was seventy two. He was prescient about the future of the industry. When I offered to join him when I finished National Service he told me not to bother as the future of the business was bad for the tenant. He was sacked by Watneys after being a tenant for over forty years with no pension.

Richard Perou (August 2020)

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