Junction of Kingston Road and Fairfax Road?

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From: "Dik Leatherdale" <dik@leatherdale.net>

Good trolleybus pictures! Brings it all back.

Reluctant as I am to take issue with Ken Tuddenham [who was, long ago, a neighbour in Twickenham], I suggest that picture 305 was at least a mile from the left turn towards Teddington [St Alban's church]. To the right of the photograph is some parkland belonging to Normansfield Hospital which specialised in caring for people with Down's syndrome [as it then wasn't called]. Around the time when the 'photo was taken a row of modern terraced houses was built, I think for some of the patients who had reached an age when they could be moderately independent.

As I write, those houses are in the course of being demolished, the hospital having closed some years ago. An estate of very up market apartments [called Langdon Park] is being built in the grounds and, no doubt, one day soon, the hospital building will be converted into flats. I suggest that the picture was taken near the junction of Kingston Road and Fairfax Road.

Keep up the good work.