You may have seen, in books and on other websites, reference to the song 'In an old-fashioned town' which is about West End. It was written by Ada Leonora Harris in 1914, when she was staying at her relatives' house, no. 48 West End. None of these books or websites provided the words to the song but we tracked them down on ebay!

 

There's an old-fashioned house in an old-fashioned street,

In a quaint little old-fashioned town;

There's a street where the cobble stones harass the feet,

As it straggles up hill and then down;

And, tho to and fro through the world I must go,

My heart while it beats on my breast,

Where e'er I may roam, to that old-fashioned home

Will fly back like a bird to its nest.

 

In that old-fashioned house in that old-fashioned street,

Dwell a dear little old-fashioned pair;

I can see their two faces, so tender and sweet,

And I love ev'ry wrinkle that's there.

I love ev'ry mouse in that old-fashioned house,

In the street that runs up hill and down;

Each stone and each stick, ev'ry cobble and brick

In that quaint little old-fashioned town.