Happy Childhood In Selsdon.
A Memory of Selsdon.
My family moved to Selsdon in 1951. I was 4 years old. We lived in Selsdon Vale on our pig farm called Woodley. I went to Selsdon School. It was the happiest time of my life.
I so well remember the village as we called it and the Bird Sanctuary where I enjoyed walking the dogs and tobogganing in the snow. The rec was a bit far, but I did go there a few times - on my bike. I spent endless hours sitting under a tree in our orchard whilst reading Enid Blyton and climbing up the bales of straw in the barn where I could have been anywhere within my vast imagination.
I was also married in the Baptist Church in 1966.
My father sold the farm to a building company who purchased the whole of Selsdon Vale and erected the housing estate which now stands there.
I hold Woodley, Selsdon Vale as a very precious memory deep in my heart. I can still look at an aerial photo which I have, taken in the early sixties. I think this is my most precious possession :)
Pat Zettler (nee Willers)
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I have only just read your post and I was fascinated because I can remember Selsdon vale before it became the Forestdale estate, from memory I think it was built by Wates, my mother and sister live there and I try to visit as regularly as possible.
I have many memories of Selsdon, mine too was a happy childhood.
Martin
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