I always wonder what happened to the Knight family. I was so friendly with Judith. How funny a real cockney girl like me making friends with a Burmese girl. I never realised how intimidating it may have been for them. I do remember the nuns from "Our Lady's" coming to them because they hadn't been to church. I didn't like the nuns they seemed so cruel!! I think we all had a nice life even though most people were quite poor in material things. We had a good sense community and our street was very cosmopolitan. I always wanted to go on t.v. and say "Hey this is what a real multi cultural community was all about." It happened in Broughton Rd Fulham!!                                                                                                                

When I was very young there was a young woman called Rosie Hearn who lived at 5 Broughton Road and she was a dancer with the Tiller Girls who were long legged dancers on the Sunday Night at the London Palladium TV show.* We were all so excited when we eventually got TV. 

I had a brother William who went to Langford and he was friends with Robert Stovold, Ray Blackburn and John Collard.

I remember the local shops. There was Greenmans Bakers on the corner of Langford Road and an off licence run by Mr and Mrs Harold. Also, a green grocers owned by a miserable old man Mr Mullins. There was a greengrocers by the Alley which was called the hole in the wall and owned by Mr and Mrs Long. Mr and Mrs Dewberry had the grocer's shop on the corner of Furness Road.

My son Anthony Lillas is a local councillor for Hammersmith and Fulham and has been for many years. He often meets old Fulhamites but no one from Broughton Rd. He went to Langford Rd school. I used to bring him all the way from Olympia when we lived there.

I now live in Chelsea and Yorkshire on t' moor with my partner of 16 years.

*Francis Czucha writes: Sunday Night at the London Palladium was a popular variety show which started during the 1950s and was originally compared by the amazing Bruce Forsyth. It featured world entertainers and a competition in the middle of the hour long programme called "Beat The Clock" where contestants took part in crazy contests and were constantly teased by the compere. The show opened with the high kicking Tiller girls performing the same routine each week and closed with the stars of the show revolving on a carousel. I learned that if you queued outside the theatre before the programme was recorded you were invited in to fill the unoccupied seats so i was fortunate to see many top class entertainers live in this old fashioned theatre. I even took my mum along...