A great grandmother will return to her childhood home in Fulham - around 80 years after moving out.
Evelyn Dunn has arranged to return to the property in St Olaf’s Road after getting in touch with its owners.
The 93-year-old will take the trip down memory lane in January, accompanied by the flat’s owner.
The home holds obvious sentimental memories to the great-grandmother of five, who said: “I’m so looking forward to it I can’t tell you, I’m like a kid, it’s really exciting.
“I’m thrilled to be going back.”
Mrs Dunn’s mother, who came from Fulham, met her husband shortly before the First World War, and they were married in 1921.
Mrs Dunn was born Evelyn Raynor in a nursing home near Fulham Road and went to Fulham Central School.
Her younger sister, 88-year-old Patricia, was born in the St Olaf’s Road flat.
Mrs Dunn said: “My grandmother lived in it and then my parents took it over.
Stories from Fulham
"I think that happened quite a bit in those days.
“I have such fond memories growing up there. We used to play on the flat roof while my mother hung up the washing.
“There was no such thing as health and safety then! It was our home and a lovely home to us.”
The family left for a house in Templeman Road, Hanwell , in around 1937 but were on the move again - this time to Queen’s Road in Ealing - in 1943 when a stray German bomb hit a neighbour’s property, killing occupants and damaging their own home.
Mrs Dunn, who now lives in Cookham near Windsor, decided to write to the owner of the Fulham property after spotting her old home in Ealing .
She said: “When you get to my age you go over the past.
“I started thinking about my home in Fulham and I thought I would love to go back to St Olaf’s Road because that’s my childhood home. So I wrote a letter."
She continued: “Back in my day we didn’t have hot water, we stored coal in the kitchen and we had no bathroom.
"We had to bath in the sink in the kitchen.
“We didn’t have anything and now they’re quite luxurious flats. I can’t imagine what they’ve done to them.
“It will be interesting to talk about what it was like when I lived there.”
Mrs Dunne also has a remarkable number of images of St Olaf's Road and Fulham, going back to Victorian times (see gallery above).
One images shows Queen Mary outside a church in Fulham. She is accompanied by Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, who would go on to become Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother .
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