Bugs In Island Farm Road

A Memory of West Molesey.

My father was a Constable in the Metropolitan Police and in 1937 he transferred from central London to East Molesey. He bought a house in Rosemary Avenue but we had to move to Molesey before it was ready, so we rented a house in Island Farm Road. The first morning my mother woke up and saw a bed bug on the sheet. My father got on his bicycle, rushed to the telephone box and phoned the council. He got home just as the council van was arriving outside the house. I remember the man spraying insecticide all around the house. The next day my mother saw the next-door neighbour dragging her mattress into the back garden and setting fire to it!

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