Miss Longworth Dames of Garden House (no:28) had a reputation as being very aristocratic and very strict (though she was know to be a big horse racing gambler). She would walk around the Park as if she owned it waving her stick and ordering residents to trim their hedges; tidy up etc.
She had a live-in maid known as Eva who was always dressed in black & white. A tale about Eva is that when she was ill; Helen from No:76 was sent to the chemist to collect her prescription. When asked the name for whom she was collecting she used the only surname she knew for Eva...Miss Brick. The Gilmore boys at no:76 had always refered to her as 'Eva Brick'
Graham Hinde (no:3) remembers her from when they first came to the park ,in 1958, "Miss Dames, who lived just across the road from us,was a lady of extremely imperious demeanour.It was an ordinary occurence to receive notes informing me that the hedge needed cutting, or the house painting. I can not recall that she ever demeaned herself sufficiently to actually speak to me. When the Rev.Wheldon Williams joined the parish, he had the temerity to pay a pastoral call on Miss Dames. She listened whilst he introduced himself,and said,"well you can bugger orf, I'm an atheist". Betty Lloyd recalls Wheldon Williams recounting this to her and adding that he was subsequently asked by Miss Dames neice to bury her - an act he was glad when it was over.

And the letters from bookies continued to arrive - well after the Lloyds moved in !!!