Voices of Kingstanding
Kingstanding resident · 3 memories in the archive
Dorothy Capewell · 1950s · Finchley Road park
I still have flashbacks of playing on the pancake (witches hat ?) and rolling down the grassy hill.Percy the park keeper was a force to be reckoned with!
Read the full memory: The pancake and the witches hatDorothy Capewell · 1960s · Parkeston Crescent
I lived in Parkeston crescent but my best friend, Margaret Gaughn, lived at the top of the crescent and my paper round was all of Twickenham Road, Parkeston Crescent and Rivington Crescent so as…
Read the full memory: Paper rounds, laundry vans and the MayfairDorothy Capewell · 1950s · College Arms, College Road
The track was, of course, very narrow and not very long but ‘where there’s a will, there’s a way’ I think that gambling or placing bets must have been illegal except for in the bookies office…
Read the full memory: Running Dad’s bets to the College Arms