Dear Old Nunhead

A Memory of Nunhead.

I was born in nunhead in 1939,lived in barest road,nunhead,i survived the bombing years,was avacuated for a while,then returned to hide in the Anderson shelter in our back garden,went to holidale road school,then on to Peckham rye secondry,i knew everyone in our street,and along nunhead lane,there was mrs cheese the paper shop,charley morgons the second hand cloathing shop,toms café,the pet shop,the bombsite next to the doctors,drapers the cloaths shop,kimbles the kemist,ayres the bakers,the wet fish shop,wilcoxes the greengrocers,cutlers the sweetshop,the bookies,the oil shop,and the 3 pubs pryo,nuns head,man of kent,the salvation army,i could go on all day,so many wonderfull memories,all changed now,its all lost, never be the same again ever,


Added 20 March 2017

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Only just read this memory but all of that is so familiar! We were a family of 8 with parents - All my brothers and sisters still alive - the Porth family, Charles, Sid, Ada, Dave, Pam and me Brenda, we were all born in Buchan Road Nunhead Peckham. My parents lived in the same house for over 40 years then moved to Crystal Palace Road for their last few years. All still live in London, Surrey and Essex. We went to different schools, Collingwood, Nunhead, Friene and Wilsons Grammar. My best friend Pat Dickinson emigrated to Australia but we are still in touch!
Happy times because we were a strong community.
i went to school with sid porth,
get in touch please,pete mills.
i knew siddy porth,he was in my class at peckham rye,we often played together in buchan road,up the rye,and on the debry,s ,and in nunhead cemertry,.
PETER MILLS my email address is peter.fusilier@blueyonder.co.uk,get in touch if you lived in barset road in the 1950 period,or near by, cheers, peter.

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