Saffron Walden and the Great West Road (1920's)
I was speaking with a 95 year old gentlemen yesterday and he told me of his family move to new houses on the Great West Road in 1928. No dual carriageway in those days.... just three lanes, with the middle one for overtaking in either direction!As the row of new houses didn't have house numbers his Dad decided to call their new home 'Walden' as Saffron Walden is where they had lived previously.A few years later another row of new houses appeared on the other side of the Great West Road.... again with no house numbers... and my friend's family then noticed a new house calling itself 'Saffron'. Once again a case of folk having moved from Saffron Walden.Thus a re-union of distant friends and School chums via house names on the old Great West Road.... Heston end.I was charmed by the story. Spend time listening to the stories of senior citizens!
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