Canterbury Road

Mrs Jenny Toone

Born 1936 in Hampton Hill, Middlesex

Moved to Canterbury Road 1974

I lived on the other side of the Chertsey Road when I first came to Hanworth. There is an advert for the Jam Factory, that used to be there, on the end of the road.

I lived in BUTTS CRESCENT and we were always over-run with ants. I think they must have been there for years from the time there was fruit everywhere.

We moved to this side of the estate in 1974, it had quite a bad reputation, but we found the people on our road quite friendly, most of them had been there since the houses were built.

Our welcome to the house was that after a hectic day of moving someone thought it funny to phone the Fire Brigade and say we had a fire; there we were in our night clothes and a whole fire crew rushing through the house searching for the fire.

Then the CRANE RIVER was a lot cleaner and the side behind the shops was a lovely walk with a lot of wild flowers - we used to see a kingfisher, water voles etc.