Voices of Kingstanding
7 published memories in Sport from the 1950s.
Ken Shelley · 1950s · Kingstanding Billiard Hall
Filmed for Voices of Kingstanding and published in June 2012, Ken Shelley recalls going to Kingstanding Billiard Hall, next to the police station on Kingstanding Road.
Read the full memory: Ken Shelley recalls Kingstanding Billiard HallBrian Floyd · 1950s · St Luke’s and the Settlement
I was born in 1939 in Dollis Grove I went to Bandywood Cresent primary school and finished at Peckham secondary modern school ( Kings Rise also Kineagle if my memory serves me right) till I think…
Read the full memory: Holes in the vicar’s socksAllan Rooke · 1950s · Perry Common playing fields
My parents lived on the cross roads Witton Lodge and Dovedale Road their house is still standing looking across those roads was the entrance to Perry Common playing fields which ran down to Perry…
Read the full memory: Summer Lane lads on our ‘Wembley’Roger Boulton · 1950s · King’s Rise School
Yes I was at King’s Rise from 1955 to 1960. I remember all the teachers mentioned. Pop Mason was great!
Read the full memory: Sunburn gave me awayAllan Rooke · 1950s · Kings coal yard, Short Heath
Like George Vickers, I too came from Perry Common, and attended Dulwich Rd School, most of my mates went to Hastings Rd School, and so I knew a lot of the lads that attended there.
Read the full memory: Coal in the morning, Villa Park by elevenVeronica Marshall · 1950s · The Kingstanding pub
Both my father and my mother were bowlers and played in the pub teams. Most pubs had bowling greens in those days. At the Kingstanding the green was off to one side, near the King’s Road.
Read the full memory: Crown bowls on the Kingstanding greenH.O. Swain · 1950s · King Charles pub dances
Upon reading the Observer (April 13 and 20th) concerning Wally Yardley the Kingstanding boxer and champ.
Read the full memory: My boxer, Wally Yardley