Veronica Marshall · 1950s · Harringay Road
Records on Thursday evenings
When I was at Junior school we used to play outside in the street, games such as hop scotch, spin the top and ball games.
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Bernie Ryman · 1930s · Cooksey Lane playing fields
Bernie Ryman recalls Cooksey Lane playing fields
Re Cooksey lane Playing Fields I was always under the impression that is was a gift to the public from Cadbury’s.
Read the full memory: Bernie Ryman recalls Cooksey Lane playing fieldsVeronica Marshall · 1960s · Barr Beacon
Riding out across Barr Beacon
I did not start riding until I was 17, and I was working at I.C.I. as a Laboratory Assistant.
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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 &…
Read the full memory: A barrow of nutty slackMaurice Sellars · 1950s · Danesbury Crescent
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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Tea for the men back from Dunkirk
You might say it was the cultural centre of Kingstanding. The first thing I recall about that was that my mother was the member of an organisation called ‘The Helping Hand’.
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Chickens, a crab apple tree and PC 49
I lived in Crayford Road, Kingstanding. There was my Mother and Father and elder brother and sister in the house.
Read the full memory: Chickens, a crab apple tree and PC 49Maurice Sellars · 1940s · Dulwich Road School
The school railings cut down for the war effort
My wife Patricia Stanton went to Cranbourne road school in the early to late forties, she then went on to Dulwich road school.
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Happy Harry, Old Vic and the potato picking
After leaving Cranborne road primary school I went to Dulwich road Secondary Modern School until I left to start work as an apprentice Electrician with the MEB about 1950.
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Dulwich Road was great!
To me Dulwich Road Secondary Modern School was an excellent place of learning and life experience, especially during the latter part of World War II.
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Scott’s forge and the two-classroom school
That two class room school I went to when I was five years old. on the corner of Harringay and Kingstanding roads.
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From Lozells to Harringay Road, 1931
When my parents were young they lived in the Inner City, my father lived at Berners Street, Lozells, and he met my mother when her family also moved to Berners Street.
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