Elm Park

A Memory of Elm Park.

Interesting to see Windermere Avenue mentioned. I lived at #57 Windermere from 1941 until I married in 1957. When we moved in and throughout the war, our house was 4th from the end of the avenue - the others were built after the war. Our house backed on to green fields with the Hornchurch Aerodrome beyond. Can remember watching "dog-fights" above and sleeping in our Anderson shelter at the bottom of the garden (probably the reason I dread spiders today!) A doodle-bug destroyed a house/houses one street over, on St. Andrews Avenue. I remember waking in the shelter walking down to the house which now had no doors or windows. Thankfully, a small price to pay for being so close. I have been back in recent years - so many changes - it is hardly recognisable. Gone are the green front lawns, flowers, hedges and low brick walls - now mostly concrete and cars.
I attended St.Mary's Convent School in Romford and later Adanac Commercial College also in Romford. I worked in the City of London as a secretary to a large stockbroking firm .After marrying moved to Beckenham Kent, later Gravesend and finally Pelsall (near Birmingham) before emigrating
to Canada in 1964

Eileen Watts (nee Reeder)
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