Timber

A Memory of Gillingham.

I lived in Malvern Road and remember the winter of '47 when we had six weeks of snow and wonderful tobogganing on the slopes. My dad was the manager of Park&Brown Jeffery Street and a skilled wood man who was able to build me an excellent toboggan with steel runners. Incidentally in '37 my cousin Sir Derek Barton was studying Chemistry at Gilligham Tech, Gardner St and spent some lunch hours with his sandwiches in his car on the banks looking across to Hempstead - not many know that he became the most famous alumnus of the tech when he won his Nobel prize !!! Interesting that Park and Brown site has existed in its old form selling timber products until a few years ago.