Lyndhurst Road
I Was born in a house down Winchester Road in 1934. Then my parents moved when I was 3 years old to Lyndhurst Road and except for the war years did not move from there until I married at the age of 21 years.
I would like to contact fellow pupils from Sydney Burnell School where I went from the age of 11 years to 15 years as I believe the school's name has now been changed so I cannot look it up on the internet.
For a few years in my teens I was a great fan of the speedway racing at Walthamstow stadium. Is there anyone out there who was also a fan?
I worked in London after I left school and can still evoke the smell of the old steam trains.
During the war I was evacuated all over when the bombing was bad so my memory of those years are very muddled.
Is there anybody out there who has similar memories? If so I would love to hear from you.
Linda
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RE: RE: Lyndhurst Road
Hi Linda,
Just to let you know Sydney Burnell School is now called Highams Park School. I work at the school, and in a few weeks I am talking to a class of year 8 children on what it was like to live in Highams Park as a child and we will compare it to now. I grew up in Hackney so I need peoples memories who actually lived here. I moved here in 1981, to Winchester Road. and it's changed quite a lot since then. I am interested in what the shops were like when you were a kid. If you have any memories to share, please let me know. Contact me or Highams Park School.
Highams Park School has its own web site, just type in Highams Park School and it will come up. On it there is a History of the School, with load of old pictures and other interesting things you might like to see.
Regards Pat Hills
Comment from Name withheld on Friday, 17th April 2009.
RE: RE: Lyndhurst Road
Also on Friends Reunited, the school is there under Sidney not Sydney, with many members, put in the school name and it will come up, then you can browse.
Comment from Christine Edwards on Friday, 1st October 2010.
RE: RE: Lyndhurst Road
My aunt had a grocers shop in Baker Street in Enfield after moving from Edmonton, it was called Culleys, Eva and Syd were their names. Along the side of the shop was a terrace called Cromwell Terrace, I used to play with the children down there, one I remember his surname was Reynolds and another one surname Dene, also a sweet shop called Bobbies, and a Doctors across the road. I used to walk down Baker Street into Silver Street sometimes through Gentlemans Row into Enfield town, but it isn't the same as then that was in the 1950s. I used to play over Hilly Fields and go for walks up to White Webbs, it was beautiful. Does anybody remember Culleys Grocer shop in Baker Street just across the way from Lancaster Road Hop Poles does anyone remember Mick Grunzel who lived in the coach houses in Baker Street? years later he worked in a Bacon factory in the Hertford Rd and used to use the then Cock Tavern on the Hertford Road, I've often wondered what became of him, does any one out there know?
Comment from Patricia Hamilton on Wednesday, 24th August 2011.
RE: RE: Lyndhurst Road
Hi, I used to stay with my aunt and uncle and cousin in Shirley Grove in the early 1950s, late 1940s, we used to go to Southgate swimming pool, which my auntie had banned us from going to, we used to creep out with our towels through my uncle's garage. There was a good friend of my cousin, her name was Doreen, who lived across the road. I used to go down either Cuckoohall Lane or Nightingale Lane to me my uncle from work and have a ride home on his crossbar of his old bike. We used to drive out somewhere not far and go blackberry picking etc, it was not far from beautiful countryside then, I was taken by bus there, a 649 from Liverpool Street, then had a short walk. My cousin went to Lattimer School and worked in soft furnishings in Pearsons in Enfield. My aunt moved to Enfield, Bakers Street, and had a grocery shop called Culleys, it was in Baker Street but had a terrace at the side called Cromwell Terrace. I used to play with the children down there, one of them had the surname of Reynolds, and another of Dent, does anyone remember? It was near the hop poles. We used to go to Hilly fields and Whitewebbs, it was so nice there then, plenty of countryside. I used to go on deliveries with my uncle in his car from the shop to the surrounding roads with the customers' shopping, Lancaster Road etc and roads leading off from it. My aunt's name was Eva and my uncle's name was Syd. There was a sweet shop along the way called Bobbies. My aunt used to take myself and my cousin for cream teas at Southgate many years ago, does anyone remember them?
Comment from Patricia Hamilton on Wednesday, 24th August 2011.
RE: RE: Lyndhurst Road
Not Lyndhurst Road, my story was about Baker Street in Enfield, sorry about that x
Comment from Patricia Hamilton on Saturday, 27th August 2011.