Voices of Kingstanding
Kingstanding resident · 5 memories in the archive
Alan Hitchman · 1940s · Atlantic Road
Myself and two sisters lived in Atlantic road Kingstanding, it ran between Dyas road and Old Oscott lane, the house had two small living rooms downstairs and a very small kitchen, there were big…
Read the full memory: Licking pennies on the windowAlan Hitchman · 1940s · Hare and Hounds, Kingstanding Road
I remember the Hare and Hounds pub quite well, it was next to the old kingstanding post office and paper shop owned by old Miss Ryan.
Read the full memory: Twopence on every emptyAlan Hitchman · 1930s · Cranbourne Road School
Kingsthorne Primary school was known as Cranbourne Road infants and Junior school when I was there, I was dumped there by my mother and my younger sister who was in a push chair at the time, I say…
Read the full memory: Left at Cranbourne RoadAlan Hitchman · 1940s · Dulwich Road School
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.
Read the full memory: Happy Harry, Old Vic and the potato picking
Alan Hitchman · 1950s · The Odeon
Walked to the matinee from about ten years old, with his younger sister — cowboy films, cartoons, Flash Gordon serials. Remembers “a big foyer” and an organ that “popped up some…
Read the full memory: A grand place to a young boy