Nostalgic memories of Penge's local history
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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.
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Displaying Memories 11 - 20 of 48 in total
Hello
Got my education here between 1959 & 1966. Boys I remember are
Nigel Baxter
Nigel Sewell
Jonathon Fordham
Kevin Sampson
Mickey TIngey
Robin Want
Colin Harley
Geoffrey Fleming
Any of you out there?
Dave Pearce
I was born and raised in Penge I lived in Kingswood road and went to Oakfield road school for boys
there were three picture house in Penge The Essoldo which was a theatre at one time I can remember watching the Pantomimes there and we had the Odeon and the Kingshall cinemas.
I used to help pulls the stalls out from some old stables behind the Crooked Billet to maple rd Market for Mr jones the stall holder he had ...see more
Has I was growing up in Penge with my family it was a lovely place Susan Boyce .
We were married at Christchurch with Holy Trinity 60 years ago - we celebrate our Diamond Anniversary on 22nd December. Did not realise the name had only just changed at that time. Our marriage certificate shows - the Parish Church of Christchurch with Holy Trinity.
Hazel Budd.
Somebody - I believe their Name was Wayne - had once some years ago sent in a memory about the overhead system of Sending the containers of money from the counters in certain shops to the cashiers Offices. At the time I sent in a memory in reply to that one I said that one shop that used this system was Rogers in Penge High Street, up on the right, just before Woolworths. At the same time I sent that memory I ...see more
I was raised in Penge - spending most of my time enjoying playing on bomb sites and the change from post war austerity to the better times of the early sixties - and can remember many of the photos displayed. I moved to Elmers End in 1966.
My mother's family were brought up in Clifford Grove off of Maple Rd by the market and I was at school at Malcolm Rd Junior School and the boys Senior School in Oakfield ...see more
At the end of Penge Lane opposite the Crooked Billet pub was an island on which there was a shelter, public toilets and a horse drinking trough. The 227 buses used to turn round here before the route was extended to the Crystal Palace. We used to empty the used bus ticket boxes to add to our collection of free play things. I can remember the whine of the engines as the drivers changed down a crash gear box to get the bus up Swan Hill into Bromley.
I had just finished adding an Article to somebody else's about Living in Penge. Just as I was about to close I spotted an article by a lady who had lived in Samos Road, Anerley, and who had also attended St Johns Primary School during the early 1950s. I cannot remember the lady's name but it was the part about that School that mainly caught my eye. I also attended St Johns Primary School from 1950 ...see more
That's my old grammar school and after a disastrous few years trying to learn something useful I eventually got a job with Renown Products in Woodbine Grove. They were manufacturers of pickled onions, vinegar,vacuum salt and various other foodstuffs supplied to fish and chips shops, grocery shops,bakers, canteens etc. all over London and the home counties.
They had a fleet of about delivery 5 vans - a Thames Trader, ...see more
I believe it was around the 1980 period that I was working with South East London Probation & After Care service (SELPAC) that one of the projects I was asked to take on was to sound proof or at least reduce the sound level of the peal of bells at St John's church, high street, Penge. Myself and some lads from the Community Service office took the task on and when I was first asked to do the job I ...see more