excert from "my early life" by John Bell   " Opposite the sawmills on the other side of the road 
lived my great uncle Bill (William Edward Wade) , my grandfathers' brother. He had a shop filled 
with garden props. These overflowed to the space behind the shop. Besides this, he earned his 
living letting out barrows to costermongers. In the front room of the shop, which was his living 
quarters, he kept a large parrot in a cage. It had a very fluent vocabulary,but some of the words 
I could not understand. Indeed, when these came out, I was immediately shepherded into the back 
room "
 The Rowles." On August Bank holiday Monday we all met up at Hampton Court Fair.The Sweeps came in 
their ponies and traps all decorated. Grandma and all of us went on the tram. I think the grown 
ups spent their time in the beer tent but we kiddies were given pennies for swing boats and 
roundabouts"