Hernville School And Honeywell Shool

A Memory of Balham.

My name was Ann Lawrance I lived in a prefab in Calbourne Road from 1945 till about 1956 I went to Hernvile Primary School then Honeywell Secondary school in the Royal Victoria Patriotic Building which I loved I remember Michel Sinate next door and he had a sister Elaine there were many small stores including a fish shop grocer paper and sweet shops The coalman delivered coal with his horse and cart and Mum used to collect the dung for the garden


Added 07 April 2018

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I was at Hearnville from 1948 until 1954 and then went to Battersea Grammar. We lived in the first prefab coming down Ravenslea Rd from the school. We moved in when it was first built (during the very cold winter of 1947) and were its only tenants as my parents moved to another Council property in Earlsfield so it could be demolished in the mid-sixties by which time I was just starting as a postgraduate student in Bristol.
I think the Calbourne Rd prefabs had gone by then. The five on Ravenslea Rd were three in Wandsworth and two in Battersea so didn't get redeveloped until the boundaries changed with the introduction of the GLC.
We also collecting dung from the horse-drawn carts especially from the regular visits by the milkman daily and the dustcart weekly.

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