Camberwell, The Town c.1950

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When I was quite young my grandfather would take me up to Ruskin Park when he went to bowl and I would sit on one of the seats, I guess to the right of this picture. Unlike the other comment I did not try to put them off - there is NO 'run up' BTW you are thinking about cricket - indeed I was shown what to do and how to do it. Here I learnt that the balls were neither round nor weighted a fact that I have ever after ...see more

Wayne’s comment made me re-read my piece and I was driven to expand. This is St Gile’s Church. My parents were baptised and married here in 1937 and I was baptised and then confirmed by Mervyn Stockwood here. To our right was the Vicarage and its’ garden which was sold to ‘the Americans’ by Revd John Nicholls in the 60s, demolished stone by stone and exported to be replaced by the flats within ...see more

I was born in 1950 St Giles Hospital and my family lived on Farmer's Road, Camberwell. I moved away many years ago and sadly from what I have researched the road no longer exists, or at least part of it. We lived at number 137 and from what I could see it had been demolished. Our family name was Kench.

My Mother was born in Graces Road in Aug 1893 in her parents house with her eight Bros/Sisters until she married my father in 1918, on leave from France. In 1920 they moved to Green Lane, Thornton Heath. I was Born in 1930. On special occasions we would go by bus to her parents, Graces Road, via Brixton. While changing buses she would go into Hemmings and buy a cake called "Hemmings Delite" for all her family. During ...see more