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Seaton Road/Western Rd School

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Theresa Jackson(nee Lay) Would love to hear from anyone who went to Western Road School between 1958-62 and any of the gang from Seaton Road where I lived and have fond memories.Memories of Majestic cinema where I use to go with my grandmother and started my love of films also enjoyed Saturday morning pictures calling into Huttons or Wilkes fish shops for chips and crackling.My father's family came from Fountain road and my mother's from Seaton road.My husband came from Conningsby Crt Armfield Crescent I still have family around New Close My father worked in the retort houses gas works then Bush Boakes chemical factory.My mother worked at Benegars in Mortimer road then the Wireworks birdcage factory.Looking for any news on Joy Luby and David Taylor who both lived in Glebe Court up until the late 60's.Really loved my years in Mitcham and have wonderful memories.Reading this site I have recognised so many names from the past

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Theresa you might remember me my nane is george varndell I lived at number 3 seaton road I rember all your family well happy days xxxx
By gav1958 on Wed Sep 28th 2016, at 10:22 am
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Hi George not sure if you got previous message.So will do again .Of course I remember you and your brother Kenny.Lived next door at No 4 .Our grandmother's were best friends.As you say happy days and wonderful memories
By tdlay29 on Wed Sep 28th 2016, at 6:37 pm
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Hi Theresa my name is David Reynolds , i lived in Rodney Road and remember you asking me round to your place to watch a play that you and your friends put on in the street , I sat on the curb to watch I think I would have been about 9
By burtandpat on Wed Nov 9th 2016, at 7:46 pm
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Hi David wow what a memory! I bet I bullied you into going.Do you remember Carol Cobb .Do you still live around the area.Have fond memories cutting through Rodney Road to get to Star school
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By tdlay29 on Wed Nov 9th 2016, at 8:32 pm
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Hi Theresa good memories of Mitchem and the star school ,I think another of the audience was John Barkis . I now live in Devon
By burtandpat on Wed Nov 9th 2016, at 10:10 pm
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We are neighbours David I live in Dorset.I really do have lovely memories of Mitcham .Maybe it's a child's memory through rose tinted glasses who knows .When was last time you were there
By tdlay29 on Wed Nov 9th 2016, at 10:33 pm
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Hi there I went to the boys school of western road in the years you spoke about I was a blonde hair boy in short trousers and that caught the attention of the school bullies in my class, the Smith brothers and their leader Kieth Hall wherever he is I'd love to tell him I survived his torment and I live a happy life in Norfolk but I'd like to know what happened to all the other lads of western Road class 1b to 4x. Though I still have a soft spot for the mitcham I knew.
By davidjb4u on Sun Oct 22nd 2017, at 4:44 pm
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Hi David I know exactly who you mean .I remember Keith Hall being a vicious little ----.I think he lived around De'arn gardens off Love Lane. I lived in Seaton Road where Smith brothers lived but not sure if same ones.I now live in Dorset but have some lovely memories of Mitcham.Have been trying to contact 2 school friends that lived in Glebe Court but no success as yet
By tdlay29 on Sun Oct 22nd 2017, at 8:52 pm
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I went to Western Road School in 1948, Mr Houghton was the Art teacher and he was the best I'd ever seen. Mr Otterway was other teacher I liked ,he saw a Webley Air Gun I had ,liked it and bought one himself. I was good a running and was in the sport team 3 years running. Mr Dubert was headmaster and what a great man he was, when he said he was leaving there was a huge outcry, I was given the job of illustrating the walls in one of the class rooms.. Good old days
By david.j.hobbs on Tue Feb 13th 2018, at 11:17 am
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Hi David, I was at Western Rd 54 to 58 and remember the teachers you mention. Head master was Humphries and then Kenyon who I think came from Singlegate. Mr Dubert was head at Bond Rd where I went before Western.
By franksnowdon on Sun Feb 25th 2018, at 10:53 am
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Hi David I lived in Rodney Road and remember you, your dad was called Tommy he used to feed us raw onion vinegar and sugar to ward off colds in the winter,you had sister Carole and Jeanette regards Bobbie
By west.bobbie on Mon Aug 27th 2018, at 9:37 am
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HiGuys Im still around I live in Norfolk now, but love to find out what happened to those bullies. I write books now to raise funds for the MNDA as Im severely disabled. Kieth Hall was a nasty pie of work Id love to meet him and tell him so but if he is alive hes not man enough now. I was fiver the wall of the hall by Mt Hougthon topping my countryside painting, like everything else sadly its gone.
By John David Buettner on Mon Jul 8th 2024, at 11:19 am
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