11 Braintree Road

 The house known as January.

11 Braintree Road is Victorian Terrace. It’s an end of terrace house and a row of neat Terraced houses close to the railway station. Many, if not, all front gardens have been paid over to allow for parking.

Road has stood there for 150 years. In that time, a wide variety of people have lived there. Possibly never quite so wide north, so varied as when Ann had lodgers.

Hugh fancied himself and thought that women fancied him too. He had a big head in every sense. It was actually just a large head. On his neck, I mean the other I don’t know about but he would’ve liked me to.

One of the things said to me if you play your cards right you could have all this indicating himself. Puke.

hugh worked at the maltings.

The town malting was one of the things that contributed the very special smell, but hung over the town. A mixture of pet food artificial flavouring and hops. Sometimes the local service treat works, joined in to add to whatever the smell equivalent of cacophony is.

Richard worked on the railways. Richard was a signalman. On the whole, Richard was unwashed. This was not surprising in this particular household, as it was a house of multiple occupation with only one bathroom. And a lot of cats.

Esther was a barmaid. She liked to be called Fred. Esther was frequently vocally, suicidal, But managed to live to a robust old age regardless.Esther enjoyed drama, as in the creation of it, not the viewing of it.

Stewart worked in the factory. In the morning, he cleaned the local taxi cab offices. He like to kebab and the telephone company of loose women.

Living in a single room, surrounded by it all was my mum and her husband. In that room, they were surrounded by all of their belongings too.

11 Braintree Road has been home to families strangers, the median, desperate and businesses. Cleaners, landlords, handyman and interior furniture suppliers have all operated from 11 Braintree Road. 

The first occupants of 11 Rachel Road, manual labourers and farmworkers. It was not until around the 1920s, that a factory was built on Braintree Road. The window factory, originating from Detroit in the USA, created jobs of far Better pay. I’ve organised in 20 onwards. Many of the occupants of Britain Road were employed in the window factory and in other industrial factories in the area. Being close to the railway station, 11 branch Road was also a very popular choice with London commuters. Commuting into London to on a life of its own after the 1970s. Until then occupants are 11 Braintree Road, well more local, but after the slum clearances and the building of London estates by the Greater London Council, so people moved to live in the area but commuted back out into the city.