trying to find 1960s address in chertsey area

[aquagirl]

I am trying to find out more about an Anne Fahey/Reardon who lived in a caravan around the Weybridge/Addlestone area in the 1960s she had a son called Michael and later a daughter called Maria.
She later went by the name of Collison and lived with Albert or 'Bert'.
Maria was born 1957 in Woking by C section and was the daughter of 'Bert'.
If anyone can remember or give any clues to the site or the persons mentioned here I would be most grateful.
 

[jane harrison]

hi i lived on brackendean site from around 1959 to 63 we lived on second avenue around the fifth site on left parents names are mark & rene harrison my dad worked at the council yard just up past clay corner right up untill the time he retired, i started school at stepgates,bad memories of a class room full of stuffed birds in glass cases. email me on jeannettesmith77@hotmail.com & i will send some photos of myself & brothers taken on the site will ask my dad if he remembers names as he knew every one. one name i remember is the westerns.

[jane harrison]

i am totally new to this kind of thing, coming into computors later on i n life ,please bear with me.I  noticed someone was enquiring about the caravan park at the foot of Woburn hill called Brackendene farm,I lived there in a caravan for quite few years in the 60s. It was a residential site and at that time ,a bit rough and ready to start with but improved as new management came in.I remember a person called Percy stamp used to run things at first, he was a good chap who would sometimes take some of us youngsters to maidstone and other places just for the company. He was
a genuine good sort of bloke. The caravan park was not a Gypsy site,it was run as a business by someone we never knew,we paid our ground rent for our plot which we kept tidy or a letter was issued as a warning.What happened to the place after we left in the late sixtys ,I don,t know,but if anyone remembers those times on Woburn Park Farm as it was then,i would be interested, especially
if they also went to stepgates secondary modern school at the time    regards Kelty


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i am totally new to this kind of thing, coming into computors later on i n life ,please bear with me.I  noticed someone was enquiring about the caravan park at the foot of Woburn hill called Brackendene farm,I lived there in a caravan for quite few years in the 60s. It was a residential site and at that time ,a bit rough and ready to start with but improved as new management came in.I remember a person called Percy stamp used to run things at first, he was a good chap who would sometimes take some of us youngsters to maidstone and other places just for the company. He was
a genuine good sort of bloke. The caravan park was not a Gypsy site,it was run as a business by someone we never knew,we paid our ground rent for our plot which we kept tidy or a letter was issued as a warning.What happened to the place after we left in the late sixtys ,I don,t know,but if anyone remembers those times on Woburn Park Farm as it was then,i would be interested, especially
if they also went to stepgates secondary modern school at the time    regards Kelty


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[Amber rabbit]

I am trying to find out more about an Anne Fahey/Reardon who lived in a caravan around the Weybridge/Addlestone area in the 1960s she had a son called Michael and later a daughter called Maria.
She later went by the name of Collison and lived with Albert or 'Bert'.
Maria was born 1957 in Woking by C section and was the daughter of 'Bert'.
If anyone can remember or give any clues to the site or the persons mentioned here I would be most grateful.
 

Just seen this Aquagirl (more that a bit late I know!)

There were several caravan sites in this area in the 1950s and 60s. As well as Brackendene, Addlestone, there was another site a couple of hundred yards away in Mead Lane, Chertsey (partly still there) another a bit further towards Weybridge in Weybridge Road, Addlestone (I think this is called Meadowlands - still there) and yet another by the River Wey in Weybridge which I think is called something like Wey Meadows, also still there. I wouldn't mind betting that there were more too.

Now that I'm back on the trail of my bit of local history, I will email you Jane Harrison just in case you dad can help with a few memories.

[aquagirl]

Thanks for the information - would be great to get more especially on Michael Reardon (mother Anne) born around 1952 as we cannot find out what happened to him.
He was rumoured to have died but we cannot find any death record (in either name Fahey or Reardon) - he must have died prior to 1975 (maybe 1972-74?) we were told (possibly most unreliably) that he died at home in tragic circumstances resulting in an inquest.
If this was true probably recorded in the local press at the time but we don't know.
Any information would be great.
Other names used by this family are Collinson and Collison - subtle change but why?
Albert Collison was a metal polisher and ex-military policeman who lived with Anne Fahey.
Here's hoping for more!
 
All a bit strange really

[Chalky44]

Hi
    I'm trying to find any information on my Grandfather John Collis, He lived on the Brackendene caravan site some time in the 50s to the early 60s. He was married to a lady called Ada but went by her middle name Helen. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated. 

[chempat]

Was this their marriage?
Marriages March quarter 1954 
 John G Collis     Tibbey  Surrey N. E.   
Ada H Tibbey    Collis    Surrey N.E.   

Added:
Is Ada/Helen still alive, as cannot see her in 1939?

OK, death:
Ada Helen Collis 
 died age 82 (approx.1932) at Addlestone, Surrey, on 17th June 2014

[chempat]

John G and Ada H Collis are shown living on 6th Avenue, Brackendene, in 1962 ER's (Ancestry).

On 3rd Avenue in 1958.

[Chalky44]

That all looks good