Subury Road Feltham

A Memory of Feltham.

That was a wonderful write-up by Carol about Sunbury Road and it brought back so many memories of my childhood. I was born in Fulham in 1932 and in 1934 I moved with my lovely parents to Feltham where we first lived over the back of Sunbury Road on the Grescot Estate for about two years. There was a Club Room and they had dancing on a Saturday night and my dad played the drums with the band. My parents then moved into 19 Sunbury Road which was my home until I was about 27. I can relate to so much what Carol wrote, as like her I went to the Feltham Junior then on to Kennington Manor. I kept in touch with my school friend who lived a few doors down from Michael Jones until he passed away and managed to visit him a couple of times when I was down at the London recording studios.
I have spent my life in music and I am now retired in Sunderland but I still have a soft spot for Sunbury Road where I visit quite often on Street View and zoom up to my old bungalow. Yes, I spent so many wonderful days with my lovely parents there, even though we went through the Second World War. Yes, I can remember when they took all the iron away for the war effort and our front gates, which I remember helping my dad replace after the war, and looking at Street View I think they are still there.
As my birthday is on the 4th September I can remember the first day of the war and Mum and Dad trying to get my gas mask on and I was screaming the house down. We had two lovely big fir trees in the front garden which the Germans dropped an incendary bomb on and burnt them down. Over our back fence they dropped a thousand pound bomb in the market garden which thank goodness never went off as I would not be here today. My dad's local was the Three Horse Shoes and that is where he took me for my first drink ever when I was 14 and left school. Yes, as children we played Cowboys and Indians over on the Gravel Pit and had a lot of fun. One memory I have kept of Sunbury Road throughout my life is that at the top end of Sunbury Road there were the shops and just past there was a very old house which had a direct hit in the war. As kids we went playing on the ruins and I found a large evil stone face which they had on the building, I still have it to this day and I think it might have brought me good luck over the years as my life has been so wonderful as a keyboard singer. I think I would like to visit Sunbury Road again if my health lets me.

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