Wimbledon Common in 1952
Renee from Belgium stayed with a family on Wimbledon Common in 1952 and would love to make contact again. Here are her memories :
"In 1952 I stayed with Jack and Diana Bonner at Wimbledon Common, looking after their daughter Victoria. It was rather a big house, of which the Bonners had let the ground level. There was a lovely garden and behind a little house where Dr Pollack lived with his wife. Below the house was a garage for two cars, so the entrance from the street was wide.
With little Vicky in her pram, I went many times to the village near by, about a 15 minute walk. I remember a very good butcher and an important fish shop. My stay with the Bonners was organised via a Belgian college where I studied, called Les Filles de Marie, and there was a similar congregation in Wimbledon. It took longer to visit them, especially the return as it was up hill!
Jack was a member of a golf club, where an evening meal was organised before my return to Belgium.
In 1953 or 54, Jack and Diana went to live in Thames Ditton, at Little Ditton, Boyle Farm, where I visited them for many years up to Victoria's wedding to Richard Westley in Esher. Richard and Victoria emigrated to New Zealand around 1990.
I had some wonderful times with them, and went to see them nearly every year, and they also came to see me in Belgium. I have not heard from them since the early 1990s, when Diana sadly became a widow. I will never forget the wonderful and sincere freindship we all shared for many years."
If you have any information on the Bonner family, or where Renee may have stayed, please let us know.