My father was Alf Lyons. During the War he worked at the Fulham PowerStation in Townmead Road and then he became a bus driver working out of the Riverside depot( Hammersmith). Later in life due to ill health he had a job in the porters lodge of the old St Stephens Hospital on the Fulham Road (now Chelsea and Westminster Hospital). He was in that job when the Profumo Affair** occured during the early 1960s.  He said he was offered alot of money to smuggle in a reporter to see Dr Stephen Ward who was implicated in the 'scandal. Knowing my old man if he was offered money he probably took it but I am not so sure...

I was born at 270 Wandsworth Bridge Road in 1943. I left home and married when I was 18 and we lived at number 267 for the next five years, above the stores on the  corner of Rosebury Road and opposite 270. Moved to 260 when old Mrs Giggins died (funny even after all these years she is still old Mrs Giggins). She used to let her front room out to the local Labour party when they needed it for elections. At one time our family had three basement garden flats close to one another. We were at 260, my mother Esther and some of my siblings were at 270 and my sister and her family were at 280.  

Both  Madeleine* and I had been married before, because of coming from the same area we knew each other and after our marriages broke up we met again and got married. Madeleine had three young daughters and I had a son and daughter. It was like living with the 'Brady Bunch' but i would not have  swopped it for the world.