Hackbridge
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Map of Surrey
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Bromley Town Walk Guide
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Hackbridge memories
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39londonroad
I was born in Hackbridge in 1944. I lived there until 1953 when my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins put me on a plane on May 2 to join my father who had emigrated to Canada the year before. My mother, who had lived in Hackbridge at 39 London Rd. before her marriage, with her parents, Frances and Nick McRae, had died of TB c. 1948.
My earliest memories are of living at 44 Longfield Rd. Next door, at 46, lived my Aunt and Uncle Iris and Jack Gower and my cousins Keith and Wendy. Aunt Iris kept chickens in the back garden and I helped her feed them and collect eggs.Rationing was still in force so everyone made do. One ...read more here
Contributed by Paul Strong
Surrey memories
39londonroad
I was born in Hackbridge in 1944. I lived there until 1953 when my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins put me on a plane on May 2 to join my father who had emigrated to Canada the year before. My mother, who had lived in Hackbridge at 39 London Rd. before her marriage, with her parents, Frances and Nick McRae, had died of TB c. 1948.
My earliest memories are of living at 44 Longfield Rd. Next door, at 46, lived my Aunt and Uncle Iris and Jack Gower and my cousins Keith and Wendy. Aunt Iris kept chickens in the back garden and I helped her feed them and collect eggs.Rationing was still in force so everyone made do. One ...read more here
A memory of Hackbridge contributed by Paul Strong
School memories
I attended St Philomena's School from 1951 - 1960. I have been living in Australia since 1963 and am visiting England in September 2008 when I will be attending the OGA Reunion at St Philomena's on 13th September.
A memory of Carshalton contributed by Bette Schoots
WINDBOROUGH ROAD CARSHALTON
I LIVED IN WINDBOROUGH ROAD FROM 1956-1961. WE LIVED AT NUMBER 68 WITH MY PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS. MY DAD TOLD ME HE TOOK CLIFF RICHARD TO SCHOOL ON THE BACK OF HIS BIKE! MY MEMORIES ARE THE "GEM SHOP" WHERE WE WOULD BUY JUBILEES, AND THE "WRECK" PARK. ALSO AS A TREAT WE WOULD GO TO THE SMALL HOLDING WHICH I THINK WAS AT THE TOP OF PINE RIDGE. ALSO WE LIVED NEXT DOOR TO DR AND MRS EICHWALD AND THEIR GRANDCHILDREN WERE ACTORS KIKA, PETRA AND PAUL MARKHAM. WE MOVED TO STEVENAGE BUT WE VISITED REGULARY. I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW IF ANY ONE REMEMBERED MY DEAR GRANDPARENTS WINNIE AND WALLY BLAKEY? SUCH HAPPY MEMORIES.
A memory of Carshalton contributed by Kay Grimwood
Extracts From Hackbridge & Surrey books
Here the photographer looks north from the southern part of The Triangle. The Hackbridge Road junction is on the left,
and the tree, now gone, is in the waste ground between Hackbridge Junior School and the road. The shopping parade
on the right is in a competent neo-Georgian style, with box sash windows and a brick dentilled cornice to the parapet,
and a centrepiece triangular pediment. The opposite parade is considerably less architecturally distinguished.
An extract from from"Sutton Photographic Memories".
Nestled in the rear slopes of the North Downs, the village derives its ancient name from the Saxon word ‘wudmeresthorn’, meaning ‘thornbush by the boundary of the wood’, and was mentioned in the Domesday Book. This 1930s mock-Tudor shopping parade still stands on Rectory Lane as it winds its way south to the junction with the Chipstead Valley Road, where the buildings of the Woodmansterne Treatment Works, belonging to the Sutton and East Surrey Water Company, are just visible.
An extract from from"Around Cheam, including Sutton, Ewell, Banstead and Epsom Photographic Memories".
Much of Banstead High Street was rebuilt during the 1920s with a series of shopping parades. The leafless lime tree in the middle distance occupies the spot where the village pond once existed, while All Saints’ churchyard is concealed behind the trees on the extreme right.
An extract from from"Around Cheam, including Sutton, Ewell, Banstead and Epsom Photographic Memories".
The station, on the branch line from Sutton to Epsom Downs, opened in 1865, and the white stuccoed house, now a builder’s offices, dates from around the same time. The small confectionery kiosk was one of a trio servicing the requirements of commuters, with other branches at Sutton and Epsom. The roof of the station no longer bears the white lettering, and the building is almost a mile from the town centre itself. The road almost immediately makes another sharp bend over the railway line below, before passing the Cuddington Golf Clubhouse and continuing on to East Ewell.
An extract from from"Around Cheam, including Sutton, Ewell, Banstead and Epsom Photographic Memories".
Originally founded for ladies in the autumn of 1890, the club admitted gentlemen to membership within a year, and from a tin hut close to Banstead Railway Station it moved to this site in Burdon Lane nine years later. A putting green was added in 1923, and further major development took place in the years after this photograph was taken.
An extract from from"Around Cheam, including Sutton, Ewell, Banstead and Epsom Photographic Memories".