My father would be in the house on his own then. But he wasn’t ill then, as old as he was I think he was still working in the Park, Richmond Park, he used to be the night watchman in Richmond Park, the best job he had, the last one, he loved that.
Category: Family Life
Family memories living in Ham and Petersham
My first Job at 10 – by TH
My first job at 10 was working for builders, other Hammites in Watneys Brewery. Started at 7 in the morning on a Saturday, just making the tea or sweeping the floor, just to get into the swing of it and then during the school holidays. I’d take about two to three weeks out of the six weeks and do a proper day’s labour for money, which was a good thing […]
Fire Brigade at Ormeley Lodge – by EB
My father was in the fire brigade and during the war they came to Ham and were at Ormeley Lodge which is on the other side of Ham Common, were the Goldsmiths live, and it was the garage and their fire engines in there and it was the garage, what would have been the chauffeur’s accommodation was for the firemen, but my father living so close, always came home. But […]
Working at the Polo stables – by EB
They both went to Meadlands and then they both went to Grey Court and when they left school they didn’t want to go to university but on their Saturdays they’d been working at Mr Walsh’s polo stables, helping to look after the horses, and they said that Mr Walsh said that we could work there after we leave school if we want to. So they did.
Coach driver for the Bentink family – by EB
Bill’s grandfather was a coach driver for the Bentinck family at Forbes House and I’ve got a little in there about that. He was a coachman and there is a picture of Mr Brown as a coachman for Forbes House and the Queen Mother’s sister lived at Forbes House and she died there and she’s buried in Ham churchyard.
Inheritance Problems – by EB
At number 7, Ham Street with his father and grandfather, Mr Brown rented 7 Ham Street and the yard from the Tollemaches but in 1948 when it all had to be sold Mr Brown had a mortgage on 7 Ham Street and the yard and a strip of land which was beside what was the Co-Op which had drains on it but he decided that he couldn’t afford the mortgage […]
Working at Barclays Bank – by JB
Barclays Bank in Ham Parade. I worked there for 17 years until I retired, part time until I was widowed and then went full time for the last 2 or 3 years. They still think – everybody say shello to me, and I think oh it’s all right for you, you just have one person toknow behind the counter and I have tried to remember everybody, but yes they do. […]
One of the first to move into the Tudor Estate – by HS
First came to Ham in 1934. We were one of the first families to move into the new Tudor Estate which was then being built by a firm called G T Crouch. Prior to that I had been living in Petersham and was a pupil at the Petersham Russell School which at that time was just inside the Park gates opposite the Dysart. Where did you live in Petersham? Well […]
Family History of living in Ham – by JP
I’ve always had a home in Ham, I mean if you consider this part of the Tudor Estate as Ham still, yes I believe it is within the old boundaries. I have occasionally been abroad for short whiles, but I’ve never sold my house, I’ve come back, I live in Ham really. Living in Ham starting in 13, later 37 New Road, was that the family home? Yes, in a […]
Insurance problems – by RP
No, first at I lived in Petersham, there was a house going and I was married in those days and then we went to Petersham to 12 Buckingham Road and we stayed there until we broke up, but when I moved to Ham in 2010, on June 30th I think it was, I went to the almshouses, and I wasn’t over keen on them because we were told at the […]