Alexandra Road, TW1
Road in/near Twickenham .
| Alexandra Road, TW1 Road in/near Twickenham . |
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  Anonymous Added: 29 Aug 2024 13:22 GMT | Wartime My late Aunt lived in Tidal Basin during the war. Their family name was Brandon. She told a story of a schoolboy killed on the dock railway when walking to school. Apparently it was common for the kids to walk along the busy tracks serving the docks. Reply |
  Added: 20 Jul 2024 01:13 GMT | Whitechapel (1980 - 1981) Diana Lee-Gobbitt - Artist rented a room at No 1 Berner Street, Whitechapel, opposite Church Passage (Ripper territory) for one year, rent approx 3 pounds pw. Worked as Receptionist for n Indian import/export company in the Watney Markets. Owner of No 1 Berner Street was Sammy Ferrugia, Maltese Taxi company owner. The artist was shown the gambling den in Dutfield’s Yard behind the terrace houses. It was common local knowledge prostitution was high end income for those in the East End during the 1950s. Reply |
 Added: 7 Jul 2024 16:26 GMT | Haycroft Gardens, NW10 My Grandfather bought No 45 Buchanan Gdns in I believe 1902 and died ther in the early 1950s Reply |
 Added: 7 Jul 2024 16:20 GMT | Haycroft Gardens, NW10 I lived in No 7 from 1933 to 1938 Reply |
 Sylvia guiver Added: 4 Jul 2024 14:52 GMT | Grandparents 1937 lived 37 Blandford Square Y mother and all her sisters and brother lived there, before this date , my parent wedding photographers were take in the square, I use to visit with my mother I remember the barge ballon in the square in the war. Reply |
  Roy Mathieson Added: 27 Jun 2024 16:25 GMT | St Saviours My great grandmother was born in Bowling Green Lane in 1848. The family moved from there to Earl Terrace, Bermondsey in 1849. I have never been able to locate Earl Terrace on maps. Reply |
 Added: 26 Jun 2024 13:10 GMT | Buckhurst Street, E1 Mt grandfather, Thomas Walton Ward had a musical instrument workshop in Buckhurst Street from 1934 until the street was bombed during the war. Grandfather was a partner in the musical instrument firm of R.J. Ward and Sons of Liverpool. He died in 1945 and is buried in a common grave at Abney Park Cemetery. Reply |
 Mike Dowling Added: 15 Jun 2024 15:51 GMT | Family ties (1936 - 1963) The Dowling family lived at number 13 Undercliffe Road for Nearly 26 years. Next door was the Harris family Reply |
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