Happy Days

Mary Edwards was my sister, she would have been 15 at the time. We lived in Sandown Road, Esher, in a house called Madresfield, where I was born. Sandown Road was a private road, off the A3 Portsmouth Road, opposite Sandown Park and next to the Council Offices; my father was the Clerk and Solicitor to Esher UDC. Mary, who became an air stewardess with British European Airways, married an Australian in 1956 and went to live in Australia; she visited Esher in 1961, the year my father retired. She had five children, four boys and a girl. She loved the outdoor life there but sadly died in 1977 in Adelaide. I remember the Welsh Guards being stationed in Sandown Park; I was a schooboy at the time at Newlands College in Claygate.