Nostalgic memories of Bedfont's local history
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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.
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Displaying Memories 11 - 20 of 20 in total
I moved into Bedfont in 1977 (Elmcroft close) and lived there until 2002 when I moved out to Camberley. I had some wonderful neighbours in Elmcroft Close, Jim Best and his wife. My next door neighbours were Colin & Barbara and their son Jamie. Mrs Semple lived across from me, Terry and Jill Emeny were also close neighbours. My son,Jordan, was born and raised in Bedfont (he was born in 1980) and he lived there until ...see more
Does anyone remember Gibbs Tractors on the left-hand side, travelling from Staines to Hounslow? I am trying to trace Mary Gibbs, who was at Runnymede House School with me in the 50's.
Can anyone remember the blue bus that used to come up New Road on to the main parade of the shops, down Bedfont Lane and into Feltham over the railway a few times a day? The driver was Keith, he wore glasses, I would like to know what his surname was.
My sister Christine lived in North Road from babes till 18-19 years old. I can remember the parade of shops, the chemist, Clair's hairdressers, Combes the bakers, Pickerings hardware store. There was a shop where we bought our shoes and I'm sure our school uniform. I remember Grants fish and chip shop, the bank, first supermarket, Budgens, Pollard the greengrocer, the launderette where Ruth Collis and my foster mother ...see more
These are Bedfont memories of my father Peter Brunt, born in Bedfont in 1932. Does anything ring a bell with anyone?
Lawrence's orchard and chicken farm was opposite Bedfont School. The field next door to the school was the Bedfont recreation ground until 1940 when it was converted to an ack-ack, anti aircraft battery (army). In 1946 they got it back as their football field and still had some ...see more
There so much I remember of Bedfont, but the best is how safe the area was and how we used to play out late at night playing torch at the corner of Southville Road using the post box and the bushes. We couldn't play ball games on the lane ground then as our neighbour Mr Drake use to get the ball and puncture it. I loved the Christmas carol singing and Linda and I used to share the money out in the optician which was next ...see more
Well, 1950s & 1960s. One or two shops changed use after that date but not much changed! Just before this section, moving from Bedfont Lane they installed the Barclays Bank alongside the Songi's (sic?) betting shop.
These shops though... does anyone else remember them? I think I have them all correct and wonder what they are now?Are they there in fact? They were there in the mid 1980s when I visited, ...see more
As a young boy I recall having some great times on Bedfont Green, picking up acorns and every year going to the fair with dad. I would love to see how it looks today, maybe someone could contact me and send me a photo for me to see? You can't post photos onto this website.
These memories relate to about 1963-1966/7. My dad was a car salesman for more years than I care to remember, and worked at the car sales place in Bedfont. We knew a lot of people in the area (none, alas, on this site so far), but I can remember the glass/pottery shop next door, the toyshop that I spent hours looking round, the sweetshop on the corner next to that. Gerry who had the furniture shop across the ...see more
My family, Perry, moved to Bedfont from Hayes in 1953. Mum and dad had been saving up for a place of our own for years and on that momentous day we moved in to Orchard Avenue, Bedfont into a brand new house where I had my own bedroom for the first time. I spent months digging and laying out our front and back gardens with my father and all the neighbours soon became firm friends. As I was 12 I was soon enrolled ...see more