Nostalgic memories of Motspur Park's local history
Share your own memories of Motspur Park and read what others have said
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.
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Displaying Memories 1 - 10 of 15 in total
I was born at home in Seaforth Avenue in 1948 and had a happy childhood riding my tricycle around to the shops, walking across the fields to Green Lane Primary School, climbing the elm trees en route, going to Sunday School at Holy Cross and spending time at the library. I remember the chemist Mr Griffiths, Wisemans, Express Dairy, ironmongers, haberdashers and fish shop. Mum shopped at the co-op and received little ...see more
Mum and dad moved to Consfield Avenue in 1941 when I was just 2 years old. The air-raid siren (on the top of Malden police station) always seemed to go off at the most inconvenient time, and there was always a panic to crowd into the shelter in the back garden,- and occasionally it meant sleeping there, which I always hated because Dad snored such a lot. Burlington Road school was a happy school, as I ...see more
I was born in Motspur Park on the 2nd Jan 1940.Lived in Tennyson Avenue until 1950 when we moved to Enfield. Went to Burlington Road infant school. I remember my father having an allotment by the railway station which is now there library, my mother worked in a bakery in the high street used to play there hide under the shop display with friends. Wisemans the newsagent was on the corner remember that very well.my father ...see more
I was born in 1947 - youngest of five (4 girls and a boy) lived on Seaforth Avenue. Motspur Park was a great place to grow up, we had such a wonderful childhood.
As well as "The Park" at the end of Marina Avenue - tennis courts, putting green, bowling green, large sandpit and paddling pool, cricket matches in the summer, the large Pavillion where one could have afternoon tea, etc. there were also the ...see more
In the 1950s I attended Burlington School in Blagdon Road, New Malden. I remember we were presented with Coronation spoons on the day of the Queens coronation. I remember well some of the teachers, Mr Griffiths,the Head, Mr Williams and my best friend Giles Harrison who lived beside the school at 167 Blagdon Road. I also remember playing on the old potteries site in Blagdon Road which was a dump for ex military stuff and how we used to play with used grenades and abandoned tanks.
My family moved to New Malden in the 30s and lived at 41 Wilverley Crescent. I recall watching the Battle of Britain being fought out over the area and collecting shrapnel from the AA guns on the way to my school, Malden Parocial.
Malden was very different in those days, trolly buses used to turn at the fountain to return to Kingston, no 604 bus. My father was a milkman for the United Daries based in the ...see more
Does anyone recall the knitwear factory of Boulanger adjacent to Motspur Park Station? My mother worked there from the early 1950s through to the mid 1970s - a long while!
Perhaps there are people - if I recall, mainly women - who worked there and perhaps who remember my mother - I have vague memories that it was a low prefabricated looking building - they made fashion tops - all very 1950s! and probably highly collectable now.
I was born in 1952 in Washington Road, Worcester Park. From age 6 I was doing the shopping for my two feckless parents up and down that road on a 3 wheel trike. My life from then was as the most abused child imaginable. I took myself to school and home was always bruised and punch drunk and my useless mother was quite open about her hatred of me and her wish for my death. Two schoolteachers lived very near us ...see more
I moved to Beeleigh Road and went to Canterbury Road School with friends Paul, Pip, John, Ian and Chris.
I moved to Motpur Park when I was 4 years old, living opposite Beverley Brook in West Barnes Lane. This was 1951. I have absolutely great memories: friends calling on your door asking your parents "Can Keith come out to play?". Think about it, a sandpit at Robin Hood Park was all that was on offer for the kids. Yeah Red School, cane across the fingers. White School, cane across your bum and with venom. We were ...see more