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Numbers 9 (on the left) and 11 were home to the Gardner family (Percy,
Peggy, Brian and John) from c.1946 until 1956.
This photo taken in 1995 shows the houses in much improved condition. They originally had rough
privet hedges with no gates and a simple bar dividing the two houses. The roofs were
slates (leaky) with pointed 'turret' shapes over the bays. We lived in the upper floors only and moved from 11 to 9 in order to gain one more room as in 11 the back bedroom was sublet to a member of the downstairs family. The bathroom in no. 11 was shared and we had no water in the kitchen. No. 9 we had full use of the bathroom and had a proper sink in the kitchen. |
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| View of Hillcrest Rd in the early 1950's. Taken from outside nos. 9 and 11. The hedge and wall of no. 11 can be seen. No cars. The picture is of John Gardner. |
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29 Malvern Ave, Highams Park - home to the Foulston Family, Syd,
May, Pat and
Barbara. The original house to stand on this site was purchased by Syd and May before the war but was destroyed by bombing and the current house re-built on the site. After marrying in 1962 Pat moved to Edmonton. Barbara died in 1970 whilst working and living in Harlow. c. 1974 Syd and May moved to their new home in Holland-on-Sea. |
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(c) Winchester Road, Highams Park
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No 219 was home to Jim and Kath Foulston,
255 to Ernest and Kate Foulston. (No 221 was
home to Ernest's sister Harriett (known as Dolly) and her husband George Chasney.) The photo (1995) was taken looking along the backs of the houses across the railway line from the viaduct which formed part of the old North Circular Road. Which house is which cannot be determined from this photo. The houses backed on to allotments and then the railway line. Ernest had an allotment at the bottom of his garden, his granddaughter Pat Gardner remembers sitting on the style between the garden and the allotment and watching the trains. It is possible Jim also had a plot. Jim and Kath moved c.1966 to Holland-on-Sea. |
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(d) Thorpe Hall Infants School
| Infant School for Brian Gardner c.1947 and brother John Gardner c. 1955. Also for Barbara Foulston but not for Pat Foulston who attended Selwyn Ave Infants. The reason for pat and Barbara attending different schools is no longer known for certain. |
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By coincidence John Gardner appears next to Barbara Foulston in this school
photo of c. 1955. Of course there was no connection between the Foulston and Gardner
families at that time, until Pat Foulston and Brian Gardner married in 1962. This photo existed independantly in the albums of both families. |
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| Temporary wartime home for the Foulston family, Syd, May and Pat after 29 Malvern Ave was destroyed by bombing. |
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| The photograph shows the North Circular Road c. 1953. The road layout was the different from that shown on the map. The road labelled Southend Road did not exist. The old North Circular is the road that ajoins and runs parallel to the Southend Road on the LHS of the map and which touches it just opposite Trevose Road at about the letter 'N' of Southend. Draw a line between this point and point 'f' and that is the approx route of the original North Circular Road. The photo is from the tee junction with Forest Road (A503) at approx point 'f'. The houses in the photo are in Beacontree Ave which runs parallel and is the next road to Hillcrest Road. Not a lot of traffic. |
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Forest Road leading to Wood Street School, Thorpe Combe etc. View Wood Steet map. |
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