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Life Stories

Life Stories is a feature in which our clients tell the story of their long and wonderful lives, in their own words.

Most of their memories stretch back more than 90 years, and in some cases nearly a hundred years, of living in Teddington and Hampton Wick.

It’s a fascinating insight which we hope you will enjoy reading, as much as they enjoyed telling.

We have also published a booklet version of the Life Stories, which have been delivered to local houses and libraries.

Contact us if you or somebody you know would like to have a Life Story featured here, or in future booklets.

Click on a name below to read a Life Story.


  • Eleanor
    • Moving from Camden on a bus during WW2;
    • Christ Church School in Cedar Road;
    • Lemon’s Bakery on the High Street
    • US army base in Bushy Park in the 1940s
    • General Eisenhower and Clark Gable
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  • Alan
    • Teddington Station Ticket Office Manager
    • “Six million pound” train tickets
    • ‘Mr Teddington’
    • MBE
    • St Paul’s and Westminster Abbey choir
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  • Shirley
    • Hawker aircraft factory in Ham;
    • Harrier jump jet;
    • Udney Park Road
    • R D Blackmore
    • Teddington High Street in the 1960s;
    • Benny Hill and the Teddington TV studios
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  • Pam
    Pam
    • Teaching at Lucie Clayton ladies’ college
    • Being photographed by The Times
    • Working at The Times newspaper
    • Hampton Hill Theatre
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