Chinnery Hill and Robinson Close were named after two faithful employees of Boyd Gibbons. Boyd Gibbons built that estate (along with the Thorley estate and other developments in the area) and Mr Chinnery and Mr Robinson were two surveyors who stayed loyal to Boyd Gibbons and worked for little or no salary when Boyd Gibbons went close to bankruptcy before bouncing back in the mid 1950s.
We were some of the first occupants of Chinnery Hill in Oct 1956. In those days, much of the area was still farmland and our 'gang' of classmates from the Elizabeth Road Primary School would often wander at weekends and holidays – reaching Thorley Church across the fields from us and then to Thorley Woods where we would gather armfulls of Bluebells or Daffs depending on the time of year – or walking alongside the river from London Road, under the railway (where we once saw a goods train Guards Van crash through the sidings buffers and hang over the river embankment) and on to Pig Lane.
 
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