Petts Wood, Willett Woods, The Willett Memorial c.1960

Photo ref: P377003

I was born in Farnborough Hospital during February of 1940. My home for the next 7 years was at 9 Kennelworth Road, and then we moved to 263 Crescent Drive, where I spent the next thirteen years. My recollections of the war are very sketchy, but I will try to give some insight on how people, and more specifically kids, were affected both during and after the war. During the war we had ...see more

I was born during the 1947 blizzard, Feb 2, 1947. Neither the midwife nor the doctor could get to our house, so my father helped my mother deliver me in the front upper bedroom of 88 Nightingale Road. I remember no more about Petts Wood, we moved to Bromley by the time I was 3!

I was born in 1932 at 36,Priory Ave. & went to Crofton Lane School & ST Dunstans Prep,run by Mr & Major Cole. After attending various schools around the country during the war I ended up at Alleyns in Dulwich which I attended from 1943 -49. Going from Petts Wood Stn. to Herne Hill via Bromley South throughout the V1 & V2 bombing threats.MY various friends at the time were Mike ...see more

My name is Peter Nutkins, I was born in 1939 and lived in Chesham Avenue for the first 24 years of my life. I worked for Arthur Black at Queensway Radio as a TV engineer for a number of years in the '50s and '60s, so got to know quite a few people in the area. My earliest memories were towards the end of the war when the 94 bus terminated at the Crooked Billet, some of the buses had outside stairs and a starting ...see more