Kingswood, The Village c.1955
Photo ref:
K156006
Photo ref:
K156006
More about this scene
Fifty years ago the main A217 road through Lower Kingswood had not yet been widened. Beyond the bus stop the cluster of petrol pumps has been replaced by a BP garage slightly lower down the hill, and the garage on the right has been re-built as GVC (Vans Direct). Beyond the clock the Victorian gable has a date of 1884.
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A Selection of Memories from Kingswood
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. Here are some from Kingswood
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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
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