Lanfranc Girls And Boys

A Memory of Croydon.

I have finally found a site where the Lanfranc name is Girls and Boys. I lived in Rosecourt Road in Croydon from the age of 11 until we moved to Kent when I was about 17.
My brother Alan went to Lanfranc boys and I to the Lanfranc girls school.
Alan was the light of my life, I say was because he went to Norway on that awful day. I loved him dearly and have just started reading the "Lanfranc Boys" book written by Rosalind Jones.
I would like to thank my dear ice-skating friend Carol (Brown) Thornton for what she put in the book, (please get in touch). Also Bill Cooper, Barry Lee and Barry Sturgess. Thank you all for your input (made me cry), it will probably be a long time before I finish the book through the tears.
We had loads of fun living where we did behind Lanfranc girls school, sometimes I would creep out of bed just before the whistle blew for line-up in the playground, mostly I got caught anyway, I could read the time very well as a spent most of my playtime under the clock outside Miss Williams office. ha ha.
I was with Alan loads of times, we used to go everywhere together, Mitcham Common was a regular haunt for us and our friends, we would find the golfers' balls and sell them on to golfers, made a bit of money there. Stickleback fishing was good there as well, and we loved the fairs, the small one down near the boys school and the big one at fairgreen.
We moved to Norfolk when I was 22 and I married a Norfolk man. My brother Brian Lee also lives in Norfolk, my Dad is 101 years old bless him and doing very well. I hope someone I know reads this and contacts me.
I have met a woman where we have a caravan at Snettinsham and she was in the same year as me at Lanfranc her name is Lynn and she was in a GCE class as was my sister-in-law Teresa Beadle. My emial address is joanie_howse@btinternet.com
I am also of Facebook under may married name Joanie Howse.
Thank you for reading my little story.
Regards, Joanie, with my very sad memories always with me.