John N wrote:
No, he and my Grandad had a business making caravans and were very good at bending 'sheet' materials such as plywoods. Lived in Greenford. I'm guessing that would have been a long commute back then so he probably stayed out here somewhere but never mentioned it, even when we moved out here much later.
When the war was over, plastics were in full swing. They never recovered the old caravan business.
The FREIND at HAND pub closed in 1998 and is now in residential use.