My Life on Weston Green
I was born in Weston Green, my parents having lived at Maisonette, Weston Green. My grandfather Charles Dobson was the local baker and lived on the green in the house on its own called The Lodge which was where the cricket was played. I used to watch it from my grandmother's back yard. She had ducks and hens and used to hire out horses to people, but I was not born at that time, I only remember the ducks etc. My great-grandfather built all of the Jubilee Villas on Weston Green Road opposite the cricket pitch. The bake-house was on the other side of the road and my grandfather's sister used to run the Greyhound pub with her husband, Frank Walthew.
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RE: RE: My Life on Weston Green
Hi Kathleen,
I read your post about Weston Green and you certainly know a lot and have a lot of memories about the place. I wonder if you can help....
My great-grandfather, Frank Vickery Bradford, was born in Weston Green and his parents moved there in about 1890. His parents were George Robert Bradford and Jane Frances Bradford. They also had daughters Nellie and Florence, and sons Arthur and Fred. They lived at Rose Cottages, that was previously known as Yew Cottage. It was a few doors up from the Greyhound (towards the Scilly Isles, not Hampton Court). George Bradford was a carpenter, and Frank and his brother Arthur worked in the Post Office. Frank lived there until he got married in 1924 and I assume his father lived there until he died in 1943.
Do you know anything about them or the house? For all I know, there could still be Bradfords living there. I only live around the corner in Claygate, but haven't had the chance to investigate further.
Regards,
Niall McMahon
Comment from Niall McMahon on Friday, 14th August 2009.
RE: RE: My Life on Weston Green
Hi Kathleen,
I read your post about Weston Green and you certainly know a lot and have a lot of memories about the place. I wonder if you can help....
My great-grandfather, Frank Vickery Bradford, was born in Weston Green and his parents moved there in about 1890. His parents were George Robert Bradford and Jane Frances Bradford. They also had daughters Nellie and Florence, and sons Arthur and Fred. They lived at Rose Cottages, that was previously known as Yew Cottage. It was a few doors up from the Greyhound (towards the Scilly Isles, not Hampton Court). George Bradford was a carpenter, and Frank and his brother Arthur worked in the Post Office. Frank lived there until he got married in 1924 and I assume his father lived there until he died in 1943.
Do you know anything about them or the house? For all I know, there could still be Bradfords living there. I only live around the corner in Claygate, but haven't had the chance to investigate further.
Regards,
Niall McMahon
Comment from Niall McMahon on Friday, 14th August 2009.
RE: RE: My Life on Weston Green
I remember Baker Dobson delivering the bread in Westmont Road, Hinchley Wood from his Morris van during the war. He had a prominent black moustache round cheeks and used to wear a bowler hat sometimes and always brown overall coat and long leather gaiters. I knew the Greyhound with its large green lanterns outside. I was a member of the 1st (All Saints) Weston Green cub pack and we used to meet during the war in the corrugated iron hut close to the old church; probably now gone. The green-grocer family were the Dodges and there were three boys who joined the pack. Their windows were blown out when a bomb landed on a house in Weston Green Road in 1940 or 1941. Later, I sang in the choir of All Saints Church along with the Beaneys, Bernrd Boston and Alan Dunstan. I no longer live in the area; but have memeories of a very happy childhood there, even though there was a war on. It was a fine community
Comment from D Allum on Friday, 19th February 2010.