Pauline Hawtin · 1950s · Dulwich Road School
The first pre-nursing course at Dulwich Road
My name was Pauline Timson, I went to Dulwich road school, from 1947-1952.
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Brian Rumbold · 1950s · Kingstanding Circle
Butcher’s boy at Austin’s, 1958
I lived on the Kingstanding Road almost opposite the police station next to doctor Trimble our house backed on to the gullies that ran along Hines Transport yard And came out into winterton road…
Read the full memory: Butcher’s boy at Austin’s, 1958Veronica Marshall · 1950s · Kingstanding Circle
Broken biscuits at John Favours
I had a black metal money box, with a gilt handle from the Municipal Bank where I saved some of my pocket money in the 1950’s. It had to be taken to the bank to be opened and the money deposited.
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A barrow of nutty slack
On many occasions at the age of 10 or 11 I called into the coal yard you mention, to pick up a barrow load of nutty slack to add to the coal fire to make it last longer, things were hard for Mom &…
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Shovelling coal at Chas. H Davis’s
People lined up with their various conveyances to cart it away the favourite one being an old (sometimes not so old) babies pram.
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