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All of our family lived around the Broadway area in the 50`s. My dad had 2 brothers and 2 sisters. Sister's married names were Eaton & Calcot. My uncle, Jim Calcot, was the manager of the Red Hall cinema. We used to kid people we owned The Jolly Maltsters pub in Farm Lane even though most of the family used The Weavers. My sister, Margaret and I, went to Halford Rd school and Margaret, 4 years older than me, had started at Hurlingham school when my dad got a job in Kensington and we moved there in 1959. Memories? Freebee Saturday morning pictures because my uncle was the manager, playing on the Eel Brook common, swimming lessons with my dad at the baths. Playing on the bomb-sites ! Buying bamboo and twine in Dells to make a bow and arrow - I still remember the aroma of that shop after 50+ years. A gang of us catching the 14 bus to play `run-outs` on Wimbledon Common or the 11 to Kings Road and walking to Battersea funfair. Could we do that now? We were only aged 7-9. I drove on the No 11 bus from 72-82 and driving through Fulham was always the highlight of the journey .
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I was born in Easton Street in 1941 and remember seeing the air raid shelters in the street, that would be about 44/45/46 time. The street had a shop and a old stable like shed which sold veg and potatoes, the families all seemed to help each other out. My granddad was Dick Addison and the family lived at No 5 , he was a Sergeant in the Home Guard.
My Granddad in his wisdom decided to have fireworks for November 5 1945,
he forgot to say that they were thunder flashes. Placing them on the back yard wall ,he lit them and the flash was that bright , no one could see for some time.
Tommy Rea the undertaker was near the street , also a ice-cream shop , the family was from Italy
but I cannot remember their name. I moved to Liverpool in late 46 but will never forget my love for Thornaby and the people that lived there.