Hackbridge, The Old Red Lion c.1955
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Memories of Hackbridge, the Old Red Lion c1955
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I lived in Seymour Road, Beddington Corner from 1940 until my parents moved to Carshalton in 1957. As a child I first attended Hackbridge infants school followed by the junior school and finally on to the dizzy heights of Elmwood County Secondary, having failed the 11 plus which was rigged in those days so that the bulk of the 10\% who passed came from a private prep school called Collingwood paid for ...see more
I lived in Orchard Avenue, number 4, when the whole road was mock Tudor exteriors. I had quite a shock to revisit a few years ago to see them all plastered over and looking very tired. In the l950s and early 1960s when I lived here we had a red phone box and blue police box at the top of the road. The church was over the road and the rec was at the bottom of Orchard Avenue. Mullards was the factory whose outside wall ...see more
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