Croydon

Hi,

I just stumbled on this fabulous site as I was trying to find some photos of the Duppas Hil Lane area.

I lived at number 23 Duppas Hill Terrace from around 1963-71 and I would have been 12 or 13 ish when the lovely Croydon Council decided to tear our house down and build the block of flats that now stand there.

In the winter when it snowed and it often did, I remember vividly making a 'sledge' out of just about anything we could get hold of and sledging down Duppas hill towards what could have been Heath Clark school! ....Was pretty impressive stuff for our ages. I'm now 57 and live in West Sussex but I have always felt that the OLD Croydon was my real home.

It's so sad, when I go back there now I feel like a complete alien. They've absolutely destroyed any spirit the town once had. I remember Abbey Road, & the Old Town Boys Club From the top of Duppas Hill Terrace (it was a cul-de-sac back then) there was a tiny roundabout and a slope cut through down to Duppas Hill Lane where there was a Tobaconist/sweetshop That was called Brooks or Brooksies, something like that at the bottom of the slope.

Carry on towards the fire station and there was the chip shop and opposite was a grocery store called Packman's, on Howley Road?

Also does anybody remember the 'Church Street Toy Shop'?

I went to the Parish Church schools starting from when the very old infants school was just behind the big church, then on to the primary school in Warrington Road (I think) and then onwards to St Andrews C of E secondary school.

Love this site!

Simon Charlton

I am seeking any information on an old school friend who attended Fairchildes in Addington from 1957 -1961 although he lived at Blenhiem Park Crescent , I believe it may have been a flat No 5. His name was Norman Maciver or Mciver and his father was s from Scotland and I believe a fork lift truck driver for London Carriers for a time. He had a brother Lionel who was in the RAF at the time, also another brother whose first name I forget but he played rhythm guitar in a group called the mauve men in the 50s/60s. I believe Norman moved to the Hereford area with his parents and were running a cafe or B&B this would have been late 50s early 60s If anyone has any recollection please respond.