Eltham

I remember you so well Larry - I should do because I lived next door to you for some years . I am Terry Bruce and lived in the prefab next to you from 1948 through to about 1955 when we moved just to the other side of Westhorn Avenue . I went to Baring Road primary school . I remember your Mum and Dad so well - I remember them as such lovely people . Before I looked up this web site I had been saying to my wife how much
I had loved living in the prefab - it had a fridge and all mod cons! And how sorry I was that they had been pulled down . Terry bruce

Hi Terry, this is a noble surprise indeed, my memory's are blurred and a little haphazard, I remember your cat Sammy, who lived to a ripe old age I believe, the clock in your living room which had eyes that moved to the beat, your father carrying me home when I had cut my foot paddling in the quaggy. Your experiment involving ether, putting insects in a jar, ants and seeing them make a colony. Terry, my dear fellow, the frost on the insides of the windows, and huddling around the coal fire, are my first thoughts,
So prefabs whilst being decades in advance in some respects, carried design defects, I served twenty years in one, towards the end metal fatigue had rendered many windows permanently closed. That being said, a more idyllic childhood in so many ways.
I hope your well Terry. A very happy old fartdom.
Larry in Bude