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Just as I Remember
As a young boy I recall having some great times on Bedfont Green, picking up acorns and every year going to the fair with dad. I would love to see how it looks today, maybe someone could contact me and send me a photo for me to see? You can't post photos onto this website.
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Gosh I really thought I'd posted on here. Perhaps when I first searched there were only the couple of postcard pix as I recall them.
Well Geoff, I'm surprised we don't know each other!! As I too used to 'haunt' The Green, for Horse Chestnuts. Picking up the still knubbly/spike cased ones and peeling them open, hoping for those like my favourite Pinto ponies..cream and brown. Depends upon your age I suppose, Whether you would recall these things:
The Lodge, behind the Green, before it was finally bulldozed making way for the small estate joining Hatton Road behind;
Staines side, The small hardware shop, between the Bedfont motors and The Bell pub. The cafe, which was also the 'stop' for the original Oxford/Aldershot coaches.. Further along 2 or 3 'grace & favour' tied 'estate' cottages, then Butterworths shop(later Gribbles).
The phone box & rails for hanging monkey style and somersaulting!
Behind the W. of The Green was the Waring textile mill...pity not to have ever been inside as it would have been something to recall; the lovely house then St Mary's.
On the Staines side again the open space after Gribbles and the small cake/tea shop...can't think what it became.
a lane to a Close, an estate wall, an open space, The Bedfont Road THEN the Waring mansion & farm (later a home for the deaf). A fabulous place.
David Waring went to school (Fairholme) with us. He was deaf. Hereditary to their family.
Until many years later I never realised that the house, the textile mill and so on were all part of..Waring & Gillow.
No wonder the Harrods vans didn't mind making occasional trips out to Bedfont and seemed to know where it was!! Doubtless they visited the Warings for more than our humble house around near Fairholme School!
Enough for now?
Comment from Olivia R-S on Saturday, 4th July 2009.