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Relocation to Elm Park
It's very early 1947. My father has accepted a position as Mechanical Engineer with JRichard Costain. We purchased a new Costain home at number 90 Windermere Ave, Elm Park. It was a bitterly cold late winter period. Water in the systern in the attic froze, as did the pipes in the bathroom, we had no water for days, what a welcome. The quality of the house left a lot to be desired, but we had bought it so we had to live with it. We had Mr & Mrs Battle next door a very nice couple he had been a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain.
We had just moved from my childhood home in Buckhurst hill where I had lived all my fifteen years. Naturally I had to go to a new school. So I attended Suttons Secondary School in Hornchurch. I made some good friends, like June Crisp whose father held a senior position with the Daily Mirror. He was very interested in radio and devoted... Read more
Memories of Elm Park
I too lived in Elm Park from 1939-1955. I went to Ayloff Primary during the war years then on to Suttons in 1947. We lived in Carnforth Gardens when there were only 6 houses there, only 2 were lived in. Best mates were Hazel & Tony Barnard who lived on the corner of Rosewood Ave & st Andrew's Ave, as kids we had all the fields opposite us to play in so had good fun playing Hares & Hounds, & making our own dens, that all changed when they built the new estate. Loved the Tuck Shop & Bartons bakery, but hated the thick fog we used to get, especially coming down the hill from the station where you had to hang onto the fence to find your way. Have been back since but it's all changed, all the front gardens have gone, I should have stayed away & remembered it as it was.
Shirley Morris, nee Wollaston.
A Happy Childhood
My parents moved to Elm Park (Mungo Park Estate) around 1957, when I was around 18 months old, with my two brothers (John and Terry).
I attended Scargill infants and junior school, in Simpson Road, and in 1966 went to Brittons County Secondary School (as it was then known), leaving in 1971.
My friends and I spent many happy hours at Harrow Lodge Park, and swimming in the pool at Hornchurch (and Saturday morning pictures there!).
It was a shock when I went back for an impromptu visit to Brittons Park in early 2007, to discover the old pavilions gone, and more shockingly the play area.
On talking to someone walking in the park, I was informed that the pavillions had to be demolished after the local hooligans tried to burn them down once too often - what a sad indictment of our times!
I also worked at Elm Park station, in the ticket office, for a number of years, before finally leaving in mid-1986.
Elm Park was part of... Read more
Growing Up - Childhood Memories
I was born in Elm Park Avenue in 1937 and have memories of the Second World War and after. I can remember during the war, especially during the Blitz, bedding down with my mother under the stairs in a steel wire cage, and on hearing the Air Raid siren having to go to the shelter at the bottom of the garden. One night there was a loud bang and the bunk bed in the shelter collapsed. I can remember the doodle-bugs later on and watching the flames go out before they dived into the ground. Once I even saw a Victory Roll performed right over where I was living. After the invasion of Europe I can remember the convoys that use to come alone Elm Par Avenue on their way to Hornchurch Aerodrome, they had to be checked in Abbs Cross Lane by the railway bridge before proceeding, once there was a convoy of over 200 vehicles. In the winter of 1944 I and my friends used to have... Read more
Harold Court School
I remember moving from the east end of London in 1947 to a then new housing estate that is named Harold Hill. The nearest shcool then to where we lived was Harold Court, we used to have a very long walk either down Gooshays Drive, continue down Gubbins Lane, turn off at Arundel Road and proceed up Court Drive to Harold Court School, or we could cut across fields, one of which was known as Guys Field which was a short cut to the school, in those days it was a long walk to school in all weathers, but very happy carefree days. I would like to hear from anyone who used that way to school.
I Lived Here From 1951 to 1977
Petersfield, Hilldene and Whitchurch shops, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd woods starting in Dagnam Park Drive and heading towards Petersfield shops, the 66A bus, Dycorts School (an excellent school with Mr Tanner the head and a truly excellent teacher called Mr. Smith), Quarles School with a bully for a head but with a true gent as the deputy head, Mr Gerrard, the moat, the green lake, the perch pond, the lily pond, The Manor, the old house at the junction of the Colchester road and Gubbins / Gooshays, the adventure playground in St Neot's with Amy Crockford running it, the A&BC Chewing Gum factory, the Eastern Electricity Board canteen where my dear mum worked, the White lady (ghost!), the mud hill, the death track, Central Park, the toy shop, sweet shop, shoe shop, Fairways (Roy), Pearks, the fish shop, the hardware shop, the cafe, all at Petersfield shops, the tennis courts at the manor, a Mr Hill? who hanged himself at the manor (sorry about that!), the Jungle Jim (Gym)... Read more
I Lived on Harold Hill From 1953 to 1967
I lived in Sedgefield Crescent, opposite Dycorts School main entrance; I had Mr Smith as a teacher; across the road from our house lived the man who hung himself! We used to make camps on the island, crossing the moat on the log; we fished for sticklebacks in the green lake, we virtually lived in The Manor, particularly around a massive log near the Harrowfield Girls School (my school) entrance. I remember the concrete pond and the beautiful lilac growing all over the walls. I met my husband 'over the manor' in 1963 and we married in 1967, he has his own adventures of 'the manor' to relate. I remember Wally's van parked outside the school when we came out, and I used to buy Palm Toffee, either strawberry or banana, it didn't matter as I loved them both :) I remember walking to Petersfield Shops on Good Fridays to buy hot cross buns at the bakers, which was the only shop that would open... Read more
