Families and their houses
The Johnsons
A semi-detached in Harrow
'I object to the label
"semi-detached suburbia". It implies I'm some sort of cardboard cut-out. This is nonsense. If you look at this road every house is different.' Bill Johnson still lives in the house he grew up in. His father had it built in 1924 during the Metroland boom. He and his wife Elsie have brought up a family who now regularly return home with their children. They have never wanted to move. (R)