Lanfrancs Air Disaster Kennards

A Memory of Croydon.

Year: 1956
I was born in Croydon and used to go to Gonville School where I sat next to a boy named (I think) Geoffrey Green. My father moved us to Sussex before I went on to secondary school. A few years later, the Lanfrancs air crash happened. I believe that I knew most of the boys who died on that day. Had I still been in Croydon, I would have been one of them.

I also knew some girls whilst at Gonville - in particular Tessa Hopkins and Celia Pinkerton - I used to have a crush on them! Once in a while I wonder whatever happened to them - it was all such a long while ago but sometimes it seems only yesterday.

Whilst living in Croydon my father often took me to Kennards Arcade - I remember the donkey rides! But the main attraction was the pet shop where my father would buy tropical fish.

Now I live in New Zealand...

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