Tag: London Road

  • Polish Camp

    Today we had a visitor bring in two photo albums of their family from the 1940s and 50s, including time spent on the Army camp off London Road just after the Second World War.  Anna McInnes’ parents, Alfred and Paulina Zelke, met while Alfred was serving alongside the British Army in Italy.  Paulina was Slovenian…

  • Site visit to Omar mobile homes

    Omar site visit Before the Second World War Tom Green, set up a timber yard off London Road, with the business making anything from shoe heels to agricultural boxes.  Tom’s daughter, Janet Bowes, has many memories of growing up on the site, in fact she even lived there for a while – in a bungalow…