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Selsdon Parade Residential Flat
My family and my father's before that (surname Kent) lived in Selsdon (84 and 32 Foxearth Road, 170 Littleheath Road, and 24 Benhurst Gardens) spanning c. 1930 - 1989. But at one point (after my father's death), my mother, my eldest sister and her 2 children, and myself all found ourselves 'between permanent homes', and therefore were renting the flat above the shop that was 'Car Sounds' around 1982. The upper window on the far left of this photo was our lounge. During my childhood, I remember Tudor Library newsagents (on the right, further down) - above which the 'Moonies' once occupied a room, where they entrapped a junior school classmate for a few hours - and Buckinghams (a lovely old, dark wood Post Office and haberdashers, with rows of coloured wools and cotton reels - my Mum was a great knitter and seamstress - ribbons and stockings). Also, Nash's the greengrocers - they provided crates and crates of strawberries for my parents' June Silver Wedding anniversary celebrations. I think... Read more
Selsdon Park
My grandfather was a footman at Selsdon Park in 1919, when he married my grandmother. I would love to know more about Selsdon Park in the 1920s, but all I can find out is after it was turned into a golf course. Can anyone help me find out the history of this lovely old house?
Betty.
Post War Selsdon
Forgive me if I've posted this before, but does anyone remember the Reid family from 113 Benhurst Gardens (that's me) or the Blounts that lived next door (I think) who went off to New Zealand. There was also Mrs. Warren around the corner (Elm Grove I think) who ran a nursery school which both my brother (Peter) and I attended.
Was This Selsdon Primary?
I'm going back a long way and my memory is dim as I would be only five years old, but I THINK this could have been Selsdon Primary School at one time. Does anyone know?
Susan Reid-Povall
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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
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.
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
