When Mead Road was first built, there was only five houses either side of the road in those days, and that would have been built in the early to mid-thirties and it was just meadow land apparently and hence the name “Mead Road” short for meadow.  After a while, my mother told me there were only five houses either side of the road but they then developed it a bit more, and it eventually became a cul-de-sac.  Then the houses down the far end of the cul-de-sac were obviously built at a later time.

They obviously got married and they settled in this little cottage in Ham Street, I don’t know who owned the cottages at the time but there was a lot of people along those cottages in Ham Street that were all related, not by the same name but there was a Rickson family, the Probert family, the Boxalls, the Finchs, the Clarks and through marriage and all this sort of thing and all related.  My mum and dad obviously lived amongst them when they were down there.

[Cedarwood] It’s a lovely house and I always remember that they had like two staircases and the main staircase that went up I walked up the main stairs one day to the room I was working in and a colleague of mine who was also working there appeared up on the landing before I did, which was quite a shock really, I thought how the hell did you get here?  And then he showed me that they had another like a secret staircase and it was like the servants used to use and I found that quite interesting.