Clayponds Estate
A Memory of Brentford.
I was born on the Clayponds estate in Carville Crescent. I had 2 sisters & 3 brothers, myself being the youngest. I went to Lionel Road School then Chiswick Grammar School for girls. I left Brentford in 1961 when I got married. I started work at Macleans on the Great West Rd, then at Trico-Folberth also on the Great West Road, then at W.W.Wood & Sons on Power Rd. who made suitcases. I then worked at Gillettes - we moved to Reading, Berks when my husband transferred with his job in 1964. I have many memories of Brentford but I am 81 years old so I don't imagine many people I remember are still around. My eldest brother, Ken Smith lived in Braemar Road until he passed away. He was the only one of us who stayed in Brentford. I remember the Queens cinema & both the pie & mash shops. Goddards furniture shop are cousins of my mother although we did not inherit any of the business. I worked in the tea bar at Brentford football ground on match days when I was about 14 with my sister-in-law. In my teenage years I socialised mainly in Chiswick as there was more entertainment & of course Hammersmith Palais. The last time I visited my brother I went for a walk in Carville - my dad would have had a fit if he could see what his pride & joy - his front garden looked like. Brentford is so changed its hardly recognisable.
Jean Soulsby (nee Smith)
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