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Kingstanding Road, 2010

c. 2010 · Kingstanding Road

A wide dual carriageway curving away between grass verges and bare trees, with street lamps, a line of parked cars and houses in the distance, under a grey sky. — Image reproduced with permission of Chris Hillcox, Voices of Kingstanding. · Select the picture to zoom and pan.

Kingstanding Road today.

Photographed for Voices of Kingstanding’s page of memories of Kingstanding Road, published in December 2010.

Local memories

What people who knew this place have said about it, in their own words. These are memories, not checked facts.

“The German POW’s repairing the Kingstanding Road by the Settlement and my mother making me walk past them very quickly so I would be unable to speak to them. The Barrage Balloon landing on a house in Dulwich Road and all us kids running there to see it. … The winter of 1947 was bad in Kingstanding, you couldn’t stand up on the ice”

— Norma Bird, Undated (in the page text on Voices of Kingstanding), Voices of Kingstanding

“My father grew up on Kingstanding Road after the family moved from Ladywood in the 1930’s.”

— John, 28 April 2012, Voices of Kingstanding

“I can recall the celebrations for Queen’s coronation, held at Grasmere Garden Centre.”

— Val Latham, 27 February 2015, Voices of Kingstanding

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