Voices of Kingstanding
Kingstanding resident · 6 memories in the archive
Maurice Sellars · 1950s · Danesbury Crescent
People lined up with their various conveyances to cart it away the favourite one being an old (sometimes not so old) babies pram.
Read the full memory: Shovelling coal at Chas. H Davis’sMaurice Sellars · 1940s · Dulwich Road School
My wife Patricia Stanton went to Cranbourne road school in the early to late forties, she then went on to Dulwich road school.
Read the full memory: The school railings cut down for the war effortMaurice Sellars · 1940s · Warren Farm Road shops
The shops on Warren Farm road, next to baths was a chip shop later it was a milk bar with a juke box. Next to that was Hilton’s grocery shop, further round was the Home and Colonial grocery shop.
Read the full memory: A humongous bag of Sunday papersMaurice Sellars · 1940s · Kingstanding Road drill hall
I can remember the barracks just after the war, the yard along the side had many trailers with radar tracking disc’s on top.
Read the full memory: Buried alive in the sand pitMaurice Sellars · 1940s · Co-op dairy, Kingstanding Road
Remember the dairy next door to the barracks on Kingstanding road, there was about 10 or more magnificent clydesdales they pulled the carts loaded with milk that was delivered all over the area.
Read the full memory: Clydesdales at full gallop down Warren Farm hillMaurice Sellars · 1940s · Hawthorn Road
Hawthorn road I have seen no mention of the bike shop next door to Mattys and also who could forget the aroma that you got when you went into Corkings the hardware shop.
Read the full memory: Nurse Cook’s bicycle rounds