Nostalgic memories of Bexleyheath's local history
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Displaying Memories 51 - 60 of 91 in total
That Ice Cream Parlour was called the Silver Lounge. Real coffee served there, but best of all the awesome Knickerbocker Glories! A birthday treat for us kids.
I'd love to get a photograph of the Silver Lounge (even if it's in the distance) as a memory for my sister's 'special' birthday next year.... anyone?
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I still have a boxed set of bronze tea spoons bought from HIDES in 1977 with the reciept, it was such a time trap going into the store, just walking around and looking was a treat on a cold day.
I recall Hides Department Store and a box of soft toy rabbits for sale. Jacksons Stores (the supermarket) and poking a bag of rice causing the whole stack to collapse to the floor accidentally as a child. The pub 'The Rose' perhaps is /was its name which had a wooden barrel outside which my father reminded me to kick each time we passed, as I had done first. Going to the cinema with my auntie Sesie, ...see more
Does anyone remember Heads Fruit & Veg shop near Welling Corner?
I was born in Bexleyheath in 1959 and lived at 61 Pickford Lane with my parents, my older brother Leslie and my younger sister Jennifer. I went to Brampton Road Primary School and had a friend called Carol Marsh who lived in Pickford Close. My father, Robert Chapman, was born in Bexleyheath too. On Saturday mornings he would give us our pocket money and my brother and I would rush off to Daborns toy ...see more
Other peoples memories are bringing back some of my own. Walking from Bexley to the Regal for Saturday morning movies across the heath. Frog spawn from the river at the mill. Walking to school past the brewery to the little old school towards the Black Prince. Camping with the cubs on gravel hill. The dene hole woods. When the yanks were in Bexley - got any gum chum. About 1949 we moved back to our ...see more
My parents (Anita and Bill) owned and ran Lewis' tobacco and confectionery on the corner of Percy Rd and Pickford Lane, opposite the co-op between the 60s and 70s. We used to employ a woman called Dot who used to help serve customers with my mum. I remember in the mid 60's my father saved the owner of Cameron grocer's life by resuscitating him after he'd had a heart attack. We used ...see more
Just behind the black car pulling out of a driveway on the left is Christchurch and cemetery. Also behind the car is the Pincott Memorial, which used to be sited where the clocktower now is. Pincott Memorial, a drinking fountain popular in olden days for horses, people and animals.
You don't see many prams like that today either.
I went to school in Bexleyheath between 1950 and 1954. I believe the school was in Pelham Road but I can't be sure. Maybe there was a separate infants department in North Street? My first (very young) girlfriend was there too and she lived just off the Green and was called Kay Thompson. I started school early at the age of 4 at North Street infants and moved on to Pelham ...see more
I remember the hut that was used as the changing rooms for all the outside sports, damn cold in the winter. Mr Lester was the Head at the time, mostly I remember the teachers Jim (Maths) and a tall teacher, very stern, chemistry, can't recall his name. Oh, and a Welsh teacher that taught English.
I learned a lot at this place, best time ever when I think back. The girls school was the other side of a ...see more
