https://bridgetonowhere.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk Burgess Park reflecting back in time Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:55:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 https://bridgetonowhere.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk/bridge-to-nowhere/#comment-96573 Sun, 19 Nov 2023 19:03:15 +0000 https://bridgetonowhere.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk/?page_id=4334#comment-96573 About the bridge that still stands in the park – my father Thomas Savill was in the home guard. With another home guard they had to stay on the bridge during the war to protect it. My father, who could do anything with wood, decided to make a fake rifle he nearly ended up in the guard-house as they thought he had a real rifle!
Sadly he passed away at the age of 91. We all lived in Cator Street till they moved everyone out in the 60s.

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