When Michelle Mackenzie’s Uncle Bill passed away in 2017, she discovered several photos of her uncle and his family: the Becketts, who lived in a prefab in Tavistock Avenue in the 1950s. Their prefab, number 106, must have been where Grace Muriel Abbeyfield House is now and there are views of the back garden, the front garden, the side and inside. The prefabs on the other side of the road where Tavistock Close is now can be seen clearly as well as the maisonettes in Tavistock Avenue. Note that there are a lot of vegetables being grown.
Ian Brazier lived in 127 Tavistock Avenue, another prefab, with his parents and kindly shared some of his photographs as well.
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- Terry Beckett in the back garden
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- Rene Beckett in the back garden
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- Ivy and Rick Rickman and Bill and Terry Beckett
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- Ivy and Rick Rickman and Alf Beckett in the front garden
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- Ivy and Rick Rickman
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- Round the side
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- Rene Beckett in back garden
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- Ivy Rickman and Rene Beckett
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- Beckett family inside their prefab
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- Bill and Terry Beckett
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- Bill Beckett
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- Bill Beckett front garden
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- Bill Beckett back garden
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- Alf and Rene Beckett out front
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- Frances Tarbox on right with sister Jean in centre and cousin Betty Douglas on left
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- Tony Brazier on swing with Mum Kathleen and son Ian at 127 Tavistock Avenue
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- Back garden of 127 Tavistock Avenue
My grandparents william and gladys thornecroft lived in tavistock avenue from around the nineteen thirtys at no 30 my mother now lives in eastbourne she used to be a aunday school teacher at st albans abbey