There was a difference in class between the streets in our neighborhood of Acton, in West London. Our street had a grand name, King Edward’s Gardens, with nice enough houses tightly crammed together, owned largely by middle-class to working-class families. One over was West Lodge Avenue, which had homes with mock-Tudor facades. Folk along that…
Category: Family/Friends
Stories related to my family and friends; some of whom are no longer…
Praise – Carl Grau
When I married Julie in 1991 I married her family, too: sister Ann, nieces Kim and Laura, father Carl, our Dad. Carl and I admired each other; we had a lot in common. I related to his adventures, his wanderlust and his engineering career. And from Carl Grau, engineer, hero, friend, and Dad, I heard…
Julie
In early 1989 I accepted a short assignment to start up a difficult earthwork project in San Francisco. I am still here: the short job turned out to be a long-term nightmare (but that is another story). And, I was captured by the beautiful Julie. Let me tell you how she managed that.
Street Traffic: Rag and Bone Men, Grinders and Onion Sellers
We lived on King Edwards Gardens, In Acton. It was a typical West London road, crammed with narrowly separated two storey houses; detached they called them. It was a quiet and decent neighborhood then. It is probably still very nice, but expensive, now. In the 1950’s and early 1960’s a parade of tradesmen, commercial folk,…