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Memories of Sanderstead
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Hillbrow Cottage Sanderstead Hill
I lived in the cottages on Sanderstead Hill (opposite Purley Downs Road), they were built in 1895 and my mother lived there for most of her life. I lived there from 1943 (my birth) till 1965 when I emigrated to New Zealand. I now live in Queensland, Australia after 40 years in NZ. My memories of Sanderstead are still very much in the front of my mind. The cherry blossom trees either side of Sanderstead hill and the pond at the top, old Sanderstead church, the library at the bottom next to the Congregational church where I went to Sunday School and church, also the 8th Sanderstead Girl Guides that I belonged to. I went to the village primary school then later on to Selsdon Secondary School, then we were transfered to Riddlesdown School as founder pupils. I would love to hear from anyone who remembers me. My name was Rosemary Edwards.
I remember going with my father who was the milkman on his round. He had a horse... Read more
Memory Lane
I lived in Sanderstead up until 1968 then worked for the forces with the NAAFI. I came home in 1972 then came to Canada. I came upon this site accident. I used to live behind the Sanderstead fire station. My father Jo Germaney retird as sub officer after 25 years, then went back in the merchant navy
St.Annes Was my School
I went to St. Anne's school from the age of three til I failed my 11+ and got sent to Thomas Moore school. I remember Sister Mary Dorothy was the head of the school when I was there and we had a teacher called Mrs Lodhi, another teacher called Miss Jessop and the really scary teacher was Mrs Williams. I recall she wore stompy Victorian style boots and if you could hear her walking stomping those boots towards you you were in trouble big style... The school dinners were yum and I liked the school grounds, I still have a scar on my knee from falling over the rockery there. I used to wish the school would fall down when I was there as a kid cause I hated going and having to wear that horrible straw boater hat! It was very strict and I was often heading for the slipper, I was a rebel and I still am, but now I think it's a shame the building has gone,... Read more
Sanderstead
I moved to Sanderstead when I was 5 from Crystal Palace and lived there until I moved to Scotland for work reasons when I was 24. I also have fond memories of Sanderstead being a great place to grow up - going to Ridgeway Junior School. My parents still live there and I return regularly. The picture above of the Station approach on Sanderstead Hill really hasn't changed that much. A zebra crossing has been added and most of the shops have changed, Indian restaurants etc. the shop in foreground is still a grocer through. I grew up with the diesel trains at Sanderstead, apart from the ghostly Elmers End shuttle that run until it was stopped in the 80s. Living in just a few streets from the station I could hear the whooping noise of the deisels all the time. Of course, the line was fully electrified a few years ago and things have changed again...I'm curious to know why so many people posting comments here have emigrated down... Read more
Tandridge Gardens Sanderstead
My parents lived in Tandridge Gardens, Sanderstead in the late 1930's and up to the mid 1940's. I was born in Purley Cottage Hospital. Have lived in Australia since 1963 but am visiting England in September 2008.
Childhood
I lived in Mayfield Road, which is where the foreground bollards are situated, from 1961 -1979. The junction was a little bit treacherous when cycling in the wet as I found out to my cost. Although a Girls school, boys could attend in their primary years. At weekends and on many nights the footbridge over the station was closed (there must have been wierdos then too) so when I went to church (St.Augustines) I had to walk all the way to the top of Mayfield Road and round the corner shown here to go down Sanderstead Road. I came and had a drive through here with my family earlier this year (we live downunder now) and the roads seem a lot narrower than as a kid! I remember waiting on the footbridge in the 1960's for my father coming home from work and getting showered in soot from the steam trains going under my feet. Also I remember buses going up Sanderstead Hill with a full passenger load (403, 408,... Read more
Family Involvement
My memories of our familý's involvement in Sanderstead Church is only from the late 1940's and early 50's. I was a pageboy at the age of about 8 or 9 yrs old at my sister's wedding. Then, one of my older brothers was a choir boy during the early to mid 50's, he gave it up because I teased him about wearing a white dress. Two of my brothers were in the boy's brigade there and another brother married a local girl in the church. All these brings back wonderful memories, never thinking I would see the old church again as I emigrated to Australia with my wife, a Croydon girl, and our 9 month baby boy, in the early 1970's. No more waiting for the Green Double-decker bus to take us up to Hamsey Green where we lived, no more playing hide and seek around the grave stones... such are childhood memories.
Pond House
Hello! This is a memory of my late Mother ~ so if anyone can remember, please contact me! In 1946 my Mother was staying at Pond House in Sanderstead. She was staying with the Murdoch family and was a Nanny to Gay Murdoch. Pond House is still standing, and opposite the Pond and the Gruffy. In those days The Rectory was next door.
Does anyone remember The Murdoch family and my Mother was called Winifred Cooper ?
