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I attended Braintree County High School from 1944 to 1950. Nihil Nisi Optima I recall as the school motto, and the school song started with the words “With hearts close knit in comradeship …” When sung at morning ...Read more

A memory of Braintree in 1940 by Roy Stone

I'm sorely puzzled. The New Addington Hotel I saw in March 1977 had twin Dutch gables. And it was rather handsome. Anyway, I then went on to a job interview in Vulcan Way (Holt's). "You get 45 minutes for ...Read more

A memory of New Addington in 1977 by Howard Kingsbury

Does anyone remember the Brown Family who lived in Norbury Avenue. Ken and Jacqueline , I think their parents were Vera And Ron. I believe they may have moved to New Addington. We have been trying to trace Ken as he was a great ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath

Looking at old pictures and archives of weybridge I came across this page of the very happy childhood memories in New Haw. The very first thing that striked me was when you mentioned about working at Bentleys Farm in the ...Read more

A memory of New Haw by Vince Read

Long time ago i walked up that path. I was born in New Addington, 65 Castle Hill Avenue then moved to Gascoigne Road until 1973. went to Wolsey Primary then to Fairchildes Secondary Modern Girls School 1964 - 1968. The music room ...Read more

A memory of New Addington by mfinden36

I was 9 when we returned from Australia in the summer of 1967, we lived at 37 Farley Road after three different houses in Littleheath Road all belonging to friends of my parents, who conveniently were away on holiday by consecutive ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by Martin Cooper

My parents were one of the first to move to New Addington onto the Boots estate from Peckham before I was born. I have very fond memories of growing up there attending Wolsey infants and junior schools, moving onto Fairchildes ...Read more

A memory of New Addington in 1960 by Gillian Potter

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 ...Read more

A memory of Hayes by Gemma Gemma

I was born in Croydon in 1943, moved to Addington, then Birchington (Kent) before returning to New Addington in 1953 where I attended Wolsey Junior School & Fairchildes Secondary School. Shirley Secondary, Lanfranc ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1950 by Jonathan Le Vine

I remember quite vividly, at the age of 3, visiting our new flat which was being built at the time in Castlehill Avenue and playing in the loft water tanks which were just over the road waiting to be fitted into the 2 storey ...Read more

A memory of New Addington in 1960 by Mike Kenny