Bedfont 1950s

My family, Perry, moved to Bedfont from Hayes in 1953. Mum and dad had been saving up for a place of our own for years and on that momentous day we moved in to Orchard Avenue, Bedfont into a brand new house where I had my own bedroom for the first time.  I spent months digging and laying out our front and back gardens with my father and all the neighbours soon became firm friends.  As I was 12 I was soon enrolled into Longford Girls School in Feltham where I made friends whom I go on holiday with 50 years later.  We have all had our children and are now on the return circle of life and meeting up once more after all those years have gone by.  If there are any old girls from Miss Hornby's class who remembers me, Doreen Perry, please email me at doreen.w@tiscali.co.uk.  Love to hear from you.  The airport has expanded just a bit from the days when we would walk across from the Hayes side every Sunday to Hatton Cross to see how the building of our new house was going.  Just a set of traffic lights at the runways stopped us from strolling onto them and being run down by the Viscounts and Viking aircraft.  Happy memories.

Doreen Walton nee Perry.