James Street

Nephew Bryan Woodford recalls; I was one of two boys who had access to the magazine in the allotment shed and the outhouse as I lived next door. Later a bus driver, he showed us the plastic explosive in the shed. He probably wanted us to know how dangerous it was. We looked at the bullets in the outhouse on our own, unbeknown to Jim of course. About  this time Jim Street moved house a few yards into Ann's Cottages, Newtown Road, Warsash and it was then his garden that backed on to the allotments. He was a jovial chap and always full of fun and would often relate at our request his poetry version of the Boy Stood On the Burning Deck. I was twelve years of age when the photo was taken in late 1944/45

Before the war he had been a butler or a gentleman's gentleman or both. He was born in Devon and he and his wife Ada moved to live in Warsash early in the war and had no children. Jim became a driver with the Southdown Bus Company staying with the company for the rest of his working life, except for the last couple of years.