London, Gowan Avenue - leaving

Harry provided us with a detailed trip plan to the car rental yard at Heathrow airport.  It was invaluable giving a detailed road by road account.  With car duly returned on the afternoon of 3 September the free shuttle took us to the airport where we found a luggage storage service where bags were weighed so we knew they were within aircraft limits.  Then off to our accommodation at Hounslow before travelling into London to look for Raymond's mother's birth place and family home.  She had left London when she was a young child with widowed mother and two brothers.

We headed to Fulham after experiencing a double decker bus ride and had little difficulty locating Gowan Avenue.  Could this sign have been here for over 100 years.

A tidy enough street so we continued along...

 ...and soon found number 64.

...which looked well maintained.  It is not known if this area was damaged during WWII and been rebuilt or if it is original.

A view across the back yards.

Redevelopment had taken place acoss the street but remained in keeping with the building style.

We left Gowan Avenue having viewed at least one ancestral home in Britain.

While we found this cemetery there was not time to investigate further.  However it is understood there are no relevant headstones remaining.

So we dined at a nearby pub and caught the train back to Hounslow for our last night in England.  the next day we flew to Vancouver.