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Kent memories
College Road
Whilst staying with my Grandparants (Weekes) of College Road, I liked to play down the bottom of the road with my friends (I was about 8 years of age at this time) - playing steppy stones in the mud of the river - a very dangerous thing to do as a child.
This particular time I slipped into the mud of course, which was very smelly, filthy & deep, thick with oil from the ships and tug boats (Tilbury Docks being opposite).
All my clothes were completly ruined, lovely white shoes and socks, plus my pretty dress. Everything was black with oil etc and had to be thrown away. I was in terrible trouble and forbidden to go there ever again! But I did of course! I was always fasinated with the area!
My Grandfather worked at The Northfleet Cement Works until his retirement.
Library Books And Ballet Dancing
A 1d bus ride brought me to Northfleet library just off this picture. Also off to the left I attended ballet and tap classes during my Primary school years.
All Saints Church, Perry Street
So many memories of attending church here throughout my childhood, of shopping in all the little shops and of cycling to and from school in my Secondary years. Youth Clubs. Meeting old friends and making new ones. For a while it was the centre of my world!
Waiting For The 149
On the right was the Baker's shop. On the left the bus took you into Gravesend town. At the top of the hill was the crossroads known as Pelham Arm's where I once fell off my new bike on the way home from school!
The Queens Head on The Hill
The 2nd tall building on left is the Queens head and was my home from 1945 - 1951. My name was then Kathleen McCarthy. On the right where Jones Butcher shop is, is where my friend Ann was killed when a coal truck reversed over her and her bike...on my Birthday around 1948.
The first building on left was later turned into a florist shop. The tall steeple is of the catholic church. I went to the St Joseph's catholic school in Springhead Rd. Out of sight on the right was St Botolph's school and church.
Behind the buildings on the left was a chalk pit with a long tunnel which was used as shelter during the air-raids. The foreshore and River Thames was the other side of the pit with many Orient Line ships etc tied up alongside the wharf at Tilbury. In those days the shipping was vast, plying their trade as far as St Catherines dock, London. Most ships would empty their bilges into the... Read more
Those Were The Days by Kathleen McCarthy
I am sure this is St Botolph's church on The Hill where I used to be in the choir around 1949. The vicar was Rev. Johnson at the time. His wife and family lived in the vicarage a stone's throw away. There were some church cottages by the front church gate where my playmates, Ingram, David and Joy Dines lived with their parents. Over the road lived a couple more, Alan and Angela Dagger. We played Tarzan and Jane, swinging from the trees in the cemetary. We never did damage though!
I did go down memory lane with my cousins from Eastham in 2004, on a visit from Australia where I now live. It was a bit overgrown but nothing much had changed in that area. We used to see it all with a childs eye, so everything was MUCH smaller now we have gotten older.
Perry Street/Pelham Road South
I live in West Sussex [between Brighton and Worthing] now but lived in Northfleet until 1971. Several photos bought back some vivid memories. In 1955 I would have been attending Cecil Road junior school, just off of Perry Street, the little shop just past the cyclist with the white canopy was Deakins fancy goods and I think it contained the post office as well, the cyclist I think I am right in saying is outside of Baldwins, a furniture and toy shop. The toy department had a exciting window display every Christmas! The bus routes I remember were the 495 and 496. At the Pelham Arms was a shop called Caveys, where my sister Rene worked for a while, before going to the Co-op dairy in Churchill Road. The local fish and chip shop was called Ladds [situated by the Gravesend bound bus stop]. I had better stop now, I hope this small history evokes a few memories.
Sincerely, Terry Young [formerly from The Crescent, Northfleet]
