User:Tony121

'''Tony Saunders

Born Anthony Brian Saunders.'''

Tony was born at home sometime in the morning of the 10th May 1959 on a Prefab estate in Forest Road Road in Hainualt Essex, he was the youngest of the four children that his emotionally fragile mother would be left alone to raise after his father left in the January of 1960.

In 1969 the prefab estate was nearing the end of a closure project by the local council which sought to re house the residents of the estate.

His family being one of the last on estate was moved into a mid terraced house in Kingsley Road Barkingside.

Around 1975 after the breakup of his family, he stayed in the Dr Barnardo’s Village Homes until 1976, whereupon he reached what was considered to be an adult age and was therefore once again required to uproot and move, this time to an SOS working mens Hostel on Kensington Park Road Notting Hill Gate West London.

During 1977 after resigning from his job as a storeman at the Readers Digest offices at the Old Bailey by St Pauls, he left Notting Hill and moved in (albeit unofficially) with a group of friends in a couple rooms above a private catering business in St Phillips Street Battersea SW London. He continued to live in Battersea over the next few years broken up by brief periods of living in Peckham Rye, Kensal Rise and Islington, sometimes with, and sometimes without his friends.

Around 1981, the 22 year old Tony had managed to hold down a steady job at, what was then, Europe’s largest General Post Office Sorting Centre, Mount Pleasant in EC1. He moved into a studio flat in Kings Cross North London and in, or about 1982, accepted a council offer of moving into a 13th floor flat in a tower block in the Old Kent Road SE1.

In the spring of 1985 Tony moved into a house in Walthamstow East London where he stayed until 1987, when once again he moved, this time coming full circle back to Essex.

Friends Reunited, Facebook and even YouTube (tony121s) holds a few more details and when he can be bothered he will write a bit more – or if anybody is really interested they can email saunders766@msn.com.

They may even get a reply.......