Querrin Street was sandwiched between Byam and Kilkie Streets and right beneath Fulham Power Station, which sent showers of grit on to the window sills and doorsteps. No health & safety in those days! We moved to 16 Querrin street when I was a baby and for a couple of years during the War my mother and I were evacuated to Ilkley in Yorkshire.

My father had lived in Fulham all his life but worked for Kensington Council as a bricklayer. My mother was from North Kensington. We lived in the downstairs flat at number 16 and Mr Honey lived upstairs with his son and daughters. We had a back yard with a brick shelter and that backed on to part of The Sunlight Laundry. We had a coal cellar under the stairs and I remember Jack the coalman carrying these heavy sacks of coal down the passage. He was only a little bloke too. On Sundays there used to be a seafood seller with his horse & cart. come round, a pint shrimps and cockles were a regular Sunday tea. There was also an Off Licence on the corner of Broughton Road  & Stephendale Road which was very popular on Sundays. Everyone popped in for their bottle of beer to go with their Sunday dinner. 

My best friend Jacqueline Marshall lived at No.12. She had three brothers called Terry, Jeffrey & Derek but they moved to Crawley later on and at No 8 lived Mr & Mrs Masters & daughter Janet.  At No.6 were friends of ours Ted & Win Higgs & daughter Joan who survives them and lives in Sunderland. We still exchange Xmas cards. We used to spend Christmas together in their house and I remember dancing the conga out to the street on New Years Eve with the neighbours. Win had a twin sister who lived in Stephendale Road just past the Catholic church above a hairdressers, Dorothy & Joe Guest and their daughter June. Not many people had television sets in those days but the Guests did and some Saturdays the six of us used to walk round and sit in their kitchen to watch TV. 

Next to the Higgs's lived the Glossop family at No 4 and the Smiths lived above them with daughters Sheila & Belinda and the Palmers lived on the corner, Byam Street end. I can remember a few people the opposite side of the road the Healeys on the corner the children Eddie & Jean, Mr & Mrs Poore and family who used to look after me as a tot sometimes. The Brandons and half way down a large family of Hawkins. There was Valerie Cooper whose family I believe lived down the other end towards Kilkie St. 

Of course there were no cars down the street so we played games in the street without any worries, marbles in the gutters, races around the block, skipping with the rope tied to the lamp post. I remember the Sunlight Laundry at the bottom of Broughton Road. Opposite was the milk yard which was an alley behind the shops in Stephendale Road.

I got married to Alan Bowerman in 1963. We have four children and four grandchildren and live in Carshalton, Surrey. My parents moved near soon after and Mr & Mrs Master also moved to the same estate a few years later so it was nice to have friendly faces around us.

Tom Selleck of TV 'Magnum' fame was on location in Kilkie and Querrin streets during the 80s. See pictures and article in News Stories section.