Stephen Saunders Court

My name is Tony Peterkin And I was born in 1950 at 100, Meyrick Road. The were quite a few Peterkins in Meyrick Road, as well as Buckinghams and Speers. We were all moved away by 1965 to make way for 'Slum Clearance'. I recall lots of talk about corruption in the Council and recall 'T Dan Smith' an 'entrepreneur' being found guilty of wrongdoing. I went back recently and wished I had not. What a dump. Slums replaced by slums.

I lived in Longhedge from 1947-1966 went to latchmere school
Then Tennyson street Carole Marsh would love to hear from
Anyone of that period

My wife,Joy Benniman lived right opposite the Cullips in Odger Street, Battersea. We remember Elsie,Jack especially. REGARDS, Bill Waller.

Hi Bill I will be seeing Jack next week at my sons wedding so will remember your wife to him. Elsie is too old to come but is doing well. My dad was Vic who is sadly no longer with us. Jack and Elsie are the only surviving Cullips.

Hi Tony Peterkin. My grand-parents lived at no 8 Meyrick Road and I have so many happy memories of their home. So sad that those dwellings were flattened. My parents lived in Latchmere Grove, which also went under the bulldozer! In the 80's a friend bought an identical property in Tooting - it was so weird walking round a replica of the house I grew up in until I was 6 years old! When they sold it, it was worth a fortune. Awful that people were moved out of their homes in that way. Nothing was every built on the land at Latchmere Grove. It's a public open space. I too re-visited Meyrick Road a few years ago and was so disappointed.

I lied at no. 52, oppposite the Baptist Church on the corner of Speke road, (The side of our house faced the side of the church. They were slums, but they were our slums. If we had a bad storm we would get rain water comming under the scullery door. The house was damp and the stairs were coming away from the wall but we had good friends and neighbours. I revisited the road a few years ago, it's been trucated as well as ruined. We had a man livint oppsite in a disused shop and he used to park his works lorry t the side of our house. . It was awful in the summer when we had the windows open as he sometimes kept the last pick up of the day in it overnight. There was no shutter at the back,just acloth that hung halfway dwn the back opening. He collected old bomes from butchers and abattoirs for a glue factory, it stunk. Also the smell from Gartons.