In his autobiography (Fred Perry. An Autobiography, London, 1984, p. 15), Perry writes of Brentham: "When my father was transferred to the Co-operative Party's London office we moved from Liverpool, setting up home at the new garden village of Brentham, at Ealing, West London. Living at Brentham was paradise after the bleak streets of the North because everybody in the garden village had the use of the Brentham Institute and its cricket field, football pitch, tennis courts, bowling green and -- an important thing for me -- table tennis facilities. It was there that I first became interested in watching and playing the sport, because it was all on the doorstep."