Westmorland Family

Wendy, Mary (Nana), Jean, Gail & Maria Westmorland outside no.6 Thames Road, 1976.

Back garden of no.6 Thames Road - L-R: Jean Westmorland, Gloria Boland, Gail, Lynn, Maria (on bike) & Evelyn Westmorland.

“We moved into the three-story houses on Thames Road in 1969 [5th August]. I asked if we could have the house with the glass door because there was a sitting room upstairs. I thought it was someone else’s house, and another house was upstairs. There was a big swimming pool outside our house, but it was filled in the very early 1970s.” Wendy Westmorland

“Initially, they just put mud and plants in the pool and then a fence around them. There used to be roses, and we used to get the rose petals, put them in our jam jars and make perfume out of them. We used to shake it up and leave it for ages until it made a thicker consistency. That was a perfume. That’s what you used to do.” Maria Westmorland