Brixton, Greater London

Manor Farm Dairy - 12 Herne Hill Road SE24

My uncle George Bowen and his wife Rene ran the Manor Farm Dairy out of 12 Herne Hill Road.  According to my mother who would visit them during the holidays - milk was delivered in those days in big churns pushed on a barrow.

The housewives would bring out their jugs and milk was ladled into the jug.  There... [more]

Happy Memories of Maritime House

Maritime House used to house the National Union of Seamen but I believe it is now occupied by the Railway Union. My grandfather Sir Thomas Yates was the General Secretary of the Seamen's Union until he retired around 1960. He had been a seaman himself for a number of years before becoming a Branch Secretary to the Union in a number... [more]

Clapham Common Bandstand

Looking for some help really. My grand mother lived in Clapham for most of my life until 1994. I was born 1964 at 78 North Side, Clapham. I used to take the family dog for a walk every day 3 times a day on the common and I used to go with her most times and when I was older I... [more]

Clapham Common Playground

I remember the playground - I went for a walk past it yesterday as it happens, although I felt it had changed. I remember the big slide (I thought I had just got bigger but no it was a huge one). My grandmother would take me there, she lived on the North Side at No 78 for 46 years, leaving to... [more]

Ducie Street

My Nan and Granddad lived in Ducie Street for many years up until their deaths in the late 1960s and early 1970s. My Mum and Dad had two rooms at the top of the house when they married in 1960 and I came along in November 1961. My mum's grandparents lived around the corner in Plato Road.  

We stayed... [more]

Ducie Street

Anyone with memories of DUCIE STREET after WW2 please post here.

Larkhall Tavern

My brother used to live in Chelsham Rd. in Clapham, London, which runs from Gauden Rd. to Union Rd.
In 1960 & 1961, I stayed with him for a week's holiday. He was on British Rail at Nine Elms. He has since passed away
He used to drink in the Larkhall Tavern, in Larkhall Rise. I went back there a... [more]

Playground Apparatuses

How wonderful to have my memory jogged by the lovely pictures of Clapham Common. After school, most days we (my brother Lance) and my mother would have such fun. We would play spot the park keeper, (always nicely turned out in their brown suits) now sorely missed ! But the playground picture with the 'umberella' in the background(did anybody else call... [more]