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This year we commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of my father, Edwin Charles Spencer Topp or to many an old West Ender, Ted Topp.
Ted was born in 1914 in Myrtle Cottage, Moorgreen Road. His father was a market gardener who had lived at the Farmers Home, Durley with a brother who ran the public house. His mother was born in Watford and had come to Moorgreen to stay with her uncle, Charles Spencer, as companion/housekeeper.
Charles Spencer had been West End Parish Clerk for 31 years, having arrived in Moorgreen in 1850.
Ted's parents married in St James Church in June 1913, the ceremony performed by the Rev. F R Dawson. In March 1914 they purchased Myrtle Cottage which came with 2 acres, 3 roods & 3 perches of land for the sum of £420.00.
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