Hayes, St Mary's Church 1899

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I was nerina lowther b1942 left school no exams 1958 but aged 50 got two hons degrees. Home flat above dry cleaners 29a coldharbour lane. Used to play in extensive bombed buildings. Recall early lessons in air raid shelter. Toilets open air near entrance. Actually remember dairy farm in coldhsrbour lane en route school. Miss Marriott infant teacher. Sec mod friend Hazel. Whole town worked ...see more

I was born in Hayes at 3, Botwell Lane which was a big old house (now grade 2 listed) divided into three flats. As a young child it was a creepy old place and said to be haunted. I believe nuns lived there at one point and during the war the kitchen ceiling fell in due to bomb damage. I attended Dr Tripletts School which holds good memories, the head teacher then was Mr Runnicles. We had to walk through the park to ...see more

For about 2 years around 1815 John Greenfield aged about 16, before he was married was a hired hand for a farmer In Hayes called Tom or Thomas Smith. Later John Greenfield and his wife Sarah lived in Hayes, near West Wickham, in 1826 with their son John aged 4, after married at Croydon Surrey nearby. John died in 1828 aged about 30, so he would have been born about 1800. A 1834 will of a another ...see more

I was born in West Common Road in an old cottage next door to my grandfathers' shop in 1940,Sadly the shop was bombed in the war and was then moved to Hayes Lane. It was Hayes Stores, which my father took over when my granddad retired.I went to Baston School with my sister and we lived firstly in Sandiland Crescent and then Ridgeway, I still visit Hayes from time to time and have such happy memories, Gill Moreton nee Tidbury