What we did have – very, very useful in those days – was the Greenline bus service that used to run through Ham and Petersham, through Richmond through Sheen, Barnes up to Hammersmith. That was delightful. I could get the Greenline all the way almost door to door from Sandy Lane all the way up to Olympia. The 2 routes were the 714 and the 716 Greenline bus service. Unfortunately, what seems to have really put paid to those services was when the famous Petersham Hole occurred when a sewer collapsed in the Petersham Road and in the end it had to be entirely replaced and the Petersham Road was closed for – in the end – 18 months. The Greenline never seemed to run again after that.

It would have had to have been done by 1967 as the 71 bus route used to go along the Petersham Road up to the New Inn and used to go up Lock Road. In 1967 it started running by Sandy Lane, Ham Street and Ashburnham Road. That was a big change in ‘67 when the 71 bus started changing route.