Lanfranc School For Girls

Yes me too! Having just stumbled across this website and having read your stories.
My dad was born in Bute Road just off the Mitcham Road and then moved to Albion Street number 7! He is now 99 and lives in Ewell. I was brought up in Aurelia Road my best friend Joyce Lucas, Michael Cocklin Robert Cocklin and his little sister Mary Cocklin, Beryl Mitchell Linda Tanner Christine Doors Eileen Morris and Tommy whose surname I have forgotten but his sister died of diabetes aged just 16. Anne Condon whose father had the off license in Thornton Road. How us kids used to play cricket, rounders hop scotch until it was too dark to see, jacks, two balls and we even used to climb up on top of the "Acan Tab" on the roof to see the workers down below, health & safety then, dont think so! We used to go "rabbiting" over the cemetery, ride our bikes all over Mitcham Common and beyond. Fish for newts and sticklebacks in the pond on the common and in the Wandle Park too.
I went to Boston road school then onto Lanfranc I also went to the funeral of the poor lads that lost there lives on that fateful day inAugust 1961 the Lanfranc Boys air disaster.
How free we were then, life was for living, I had a brilliant childhood and brilliant parents I couldnt have wished for better, even now life is good as they say "life is what you make it"
Keep smiling.
Glennis
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