Voices of Kingstanding
Kingstanding resident · 4 memories in the archive
Pauline Stacey · 1940s · St Luke’s Church, Caversham Road
As I have said elsewhere I was born and grew up in Peckham Road, I was born in 1936 and spent all of my childhood at St. Luke’s Church.
Read the full memory: Confirmed at St Luke’s, 1948Pauline Stacey · 1940s · Peckham Road School
I was born in 1936 in the June.. in Peckham Road. I don`t recall my age when I started school, but my very first memory of school is my first day.
Read the full memory: Miss Bloxham’s high deskPauline Stacey · 1940s · Finchley Road
As we all know the war started in 1939, my dad went into the army, and stayed there till he was demobbed in 1945, my mum had to work at several low paid jobs to keep my brother and myself clothed.
Read the full memory: Queuing down Finchley Road when sweets came off rationPauline Stacey · 1950s · Southgate Road
My fiance, as he was then, and I bought our first house … on Southgate Road. We paid £1900 for it. and yes, access to rear of garden where we had a garage by the drive way.
Read the full memory: Our first house, £1900