Kingswood, Waterhouse Lane c.1960
Photo ref: K156047
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Photo ref: K156047
Photo of Kingswood, Waterhouse Lane c.1960

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Mr Chappell`s newsagent`s and post office is fondly recalled by local residents but is now a Londis store. Surprisingly, Hocken`s chemist`s shop next door is now Hocken`s Audio Visual Ltd. The garage is now occupied by Mitsubishi Kingswood and beyond is the Kyber Tandoori.

Memories of Kingswood, Waterhouse Lane c1960

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Kingswood, Waterhouse Lane c.1960

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We lived at Garden Farm, Waterhouse Lane, Kingswood, these are some of my memories. I went from there to Tadworth School, also myself and family used to walk from there most Sundays along different paths to Reigate and have an ice cream, and had no money for the bus fare home so we had to walk all that way back again, but was good fun. Also we would often walk to Main Road and see a Greenline bus ...see more