Like many other people around the world, I have been bitten by the family history bug.

Using an online tree, I have been able to document my family over many generations and while I have a lot of photos of people, I have very few of places which are significant to my family.

Do any of your readers have photographs of Deerfield Cottages (where I was born in 1956), West Hendon?

There was a terraced row of 17 cottages; my parents and I lived in number 17, on the end near the stream. The cottages were located behind the Schweppes factory, and their long, back gardens abutted the railway embankment.

Although I was a ‘Schweppes baby’ and my dad Arthur Wyldbore worked there for nearly 30 years, we have no photos of the cottages or the factory at that time.

I’m also unsure whether the company built the cottages (all inhabited by Schweppes’ workers’ families, as far as I know), or whether they came with the site.

If any of your readers can cast light on the matter, I’d be much obliged (as would the Hendon Historical Society, which doesn’t have a photo or any site history either).

If photographs and documents can be scanned and sent electronically, that would be wonderful, otherwise I am happy to discuss assisting with the cost of duplication and postage.

Anyone with information is welcome to contact me at wyldbore@netcon.net.au or write to me at the address below.

Jean Wyldbore
Guildford, Victoria 3451, Australia