The Fountain Shirley Hills c1965, Addiscombe
The Fountain Shirley Hills c1965, Addiscombe Ref: A267016
Memories of The Fountain Shirley Hills c1965, Addiscombe
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Baring Road
I was born at Mayday Hospital. My parents still live in Baring Road and my mother has lived there from the age of 13, as my grandmother had the house before they did. I vividly remember playing 'up and down the road.' It is so sad children cannot do that safely any more. I also walked to school from a young age, as did my friends. It was a different world. My Dad had the first car in the street. Brownies was at St Mildred's church and my sister volunteered my mum to be the Tawny Owl while my dad somehow got roped into helping the scouts. It always seemed a close knit community. My parents originally lived with my grandmother, there were several families where parent or parents still lived in Baring Road while their children also had a house there. I always felt everyone knew what everyone else was doing! My friend Linda and I used to have picnics in Bingham Road Park and buy Parma... Read more
The Old Club House School
I was delighted to hear (and see) that I was not the only person who remembers the Club House. It would seem that one or two of us lived on the estate (I lived in Coleridge Road) and a comment regarding the primary school prompted me to remember Mr Payne who tended the boilers that were underneath the primary school and Mrs Masters the headmistress. In sorting out some old paperwork I came across a Postal Order counterfoil from the Post office by the fire station - remember the name - Bellingers. I moved away to the West Country in 1969 and as all my relatives have long since passed on I have had no reason to return to the area. But very happy times spent there.
The Fish Shop
When I was still going to school Ashburton High School I had a park time job at the Fish Shop at the Shirly Road shops I worked every day arfter school Monday to Friday, also all day Saturday, and I got paid 12 shillings for that, this is how I paid for my new bike. When I say fish shop I mean the old fish shops with the slab in the front of the shop with all the fresh fish on it. My friend used to work in the butcher shop. We bouth used to deliver our fish and meat to the Shirly Club House on our delivery bikes. Does anyone out there remember these shops?
Ashburton Club House School
Yes, I remember the Club House - I seem to recall we went there after the Primary school and before the Junior School but I could be wrong! I remember the playground there and going home from school across the old golf course which still had the hillocks and sandy bits! I lived in Chaucer Green so not far to walk! I went back to the Junior/Primary school on summer fete day 4 years ago and it looked exactly the same. It still had the area round the back where we used to do high jump, and the same doors and windows. I hated the outside toilets but they have gone now! I went to Ashburton Secondary school after that. I always think of Addiscombe as my home even though I live in Banstead now. I am very nostalgic about it. I wish I could find a photo of the Club House too!
Shirley Road Shops
I lived at Ashburton and spent my junior school years from 1953 at the primary and junior schools after which I walked everyday to South Norwood where I attended Stanley Tech. The interesting part was the intermediate school that I and many others went to was known as the club house. This was the old golf club situated by the fire station on the corner of Long Lane by Ashburton Park. We all had great fun here. I guess I was about eight years old and remember in the winter the roaring open fires and sliding down the bannister. It was eventually demolished and now has several blocks of flats occupying the site. However, the picture titled The Parade is surely the small row of shops by Shirley Park roundabout opposite the entrance to what was Shirley Park Golf Club - now long gone and at the beginning of Upper Addiscombe Road. Other than living within walking distance of this area Stanley Tech used the football grounds a few hundred... Read more
A Memory of Woodside Related by Auntie Dorrie Who Was Born in 1908
Doris Allen is my aunt who took enormous pleasure in telling me stories of our family life in the very early 1900's. She had a long and interesting life and died peacfully at the age of 99. Towards the end her sight failed so she spent a lot of time talking. I wrote these stories down as she spoke and this is one of her first memories of life around the Croydon area. She told me that her own Auntie Tilly (her real name was Matilda) was part of my Great-Grandad Allen’s second family. Tilly looked after her brother John when his wife, Aunty Ann (nee Prior) died. Tilly never married. Auntie Dorrie was fond of her. Tilly would come and visit my Grandad Allen each week. She was a quiet woman, very quiet, and would never start a conversation. She is remembered by Auntie Dorrie as a little old lady with a long umbrella. She lived in the road opposite the old station at Woodside.
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The Old Club House
I remember the old club house school. I lived in Coleridge Road and I went to the Ashburton High School, now pulled down, they have a new school there now but the fire station is still there, also the corner shop oposite the fire station is still there, it used to be the post office and inside the shop he had rows of jars of sweets. I came to Australia in 1962 so we are talking over 50 years now.
