Terrie Hawkins (nee Harris) writes her husband Peter Hawkins was born in William Parnell House in 1947 and grew up at number 67. The Hawkins family was one of the largest in the flats. Peter was the youngest of the ten children of Bill and Lil Hawkins. The others were Jack (deceased), Lil, Sally, Joey (deceased), Josie, Harry (recently deceased), Violet, Tommy, Annie and Peter.

Peter's sister Annie (now Ann Irvin) writes; "My mother had ten children and we lived in a four bedroom flat. It don't seem possible now  I look back. I was born in Parnell House in 1945 and moved out when i got married in 1967.

Ann continues; "When I was seven years old a Coronation Day party was held in the grounds of the flats in 1953. Every child on the estate was given a mug and a certificate. In those days we played on the bomb sites by the flats and collected any item of household goods we could find and played houses. Then Pearscroft Court and Bulow Court were built."

Peter's older sister Sally and her husband John still live locally in nearby Furness Road. John's mother Mary Parker used to run the vegetable stall on the other side of Wandsworth Bridge Road, opposite the church which existed on the corner of Broughton Road Approach.

Fellow neighbours and friends of the Hawkins family were the Lawrences, Blakes, Webbs, Lovells, Ecclestones. Warwicks and Barnhams.

Terrie has kindly provided these pictures of William Parnell residents celebratng Fulham Football Club's achievement of reaching the 1975 FA Cup Final which they sadly lost to West Ham. More Fulham celebration pictures in Terrie's entry for Pearscroft Road (Where We Lived Section)