Memories from a Local Lad
Growing up on the estate
By Michael Warr
Very pleased to have found this web site. I was seven and a half when war was declared and at the time was playing cricket in the road, (as we did in those days) a Sunday morning I believe. I lived through the WW11 at 102 Waltham Road. Several near misses in the air raids, the nearest being the 'Doodle Bug' that landed in Titchfield Walk. It was the final straw for my parents when the V2s started falling and I was wisked off to Gloucester. I was a scout in the 14th Morden Group, and an altar boy at St. Peters Church. The school I attended was Tweeddale boys, after the war I went to Wimbledon Technical School, started work at Hoffman Tool Company (briefly) and then went to Venner Time Switches. Two years in the Airforce and back to Venner Time Switches and eventually to Venner Electronics. Married and settled down in Kingsley Avenue on the Carshalton/Sutton boundary.
A company move to Bristol with the Electronics section for a number of years before moving to Wiltshire where I still reside at the age of 80.
The war years were very happy for most youngsters, that may sound strange, however that is the view many of that generation.
Cross Keys Boys Club holiday to Seaford 1946. The photo was by Rev. Hayler of St. Peter's Church
Donated by Michael Warr