"The Galtymore Cricklewood was a home from home for Irish immigrants in the Fifte"

A review of Galtymore Dance Club by Bob McGrath written on Tuesday 25th of September 2012

I arrived in London in May 1960 and got digs in Kensal Rise. My first visit to the Galtymore was

on a Sunday in June 1960 following a visit to the

famous Crown on the same night. The Irish certainly

were all over Cricklewood in those days. I got a job in Rolls Razor and many of my generation also worked in Smiths Clocks.The majority of Irish though worked

in construction. The Cricklewood Hotel was also a famous haunt of many Irish and there was a small

dance hall upstairs there.It was a great time to be

in London with plenty of jobs available to all. I

met my wife in the Galtymore , a Donegal woman.

I returned to Ireland five years ago and now live in Donegal.

Recently, I revisited London and Cricklewood and was

sad to see the many changes there and no sign of

the famous Galtymore. In place of the Irish accents

you now have Eastern European and African. In the

pubs there are still a few elderly Irish, but no

younger Irish at all. .

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