Osterley 1981 1988

A Memory of Hounslow.

We moved to Isleworth/Osterley in 1961. We bought a maisonette just off Northumberland Avenue, Rothbury Gardens. My first son was 2 weeks old. We lived there for 19 years, by then we have 3 sons and then we moved just across the Great West Road to Syon Park Gardens. It was a really nice area. Across the A4 (Great West Road) was a church where my sons were christened. Abut a mile along the road was a little park and library, in the other direction there was Gillettes Corner, a bank and then a number of fctories, really well-kept, Art Deco style. Jersey Park was quite near, and Syon Park and the Duke of Northumberland's stately home was about a mile away to the east. At Christmas time people would walk along the A4 because all the factories had Christmas trees outside, which were covered in lights, all the children loved this as you can imagine. We lived in Syon Park Gardens until 1988, by this time 2 of my sons had left home and the house was far too large so we moved to a bungalow in Walton on Thames, where my husband and I still live. Sometimes we go back to Osterley but we cannot believe how different it is now.