Nostalgic memories of Mitcham's local history
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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 111 - 120 of 155 in total
So long ago. We (the family, Mum, Alun, Rob & me) must have left Colliers Wood just a few years after the war had ended. We moved into a Nissan hut, one of which seemed to me in a small suburb of huts, but no streets, just rough ground. It was near the railway line and there was a derelict two storey house that was both fascinating and scary, I suppose it was war damaged.
Not far away, behind a fence made of ...see more
Can anyone remember the pub, the Bull, in Church Road? The family who owned the pub, Mr and Mrs Long, had a daughter called Pat Long.
Can anyone help?
Cheers,
Paul Warren.
As I read and reread the memories that are posted on this site, Mitcham and my childhood there become more and more vivid. I can almost smell the grass on the cricket green, just after it was cut. When I was young, Mitcham was a place that people from the surrounding areas would come to. Now it's a place you have pass through going somewhere else. I sat and thought for a while, what was it they came for? ...see more
My name is Paul Wood, born in Greenwood Road in 1940. We didn't get blitzed much, but we had a land mine in our road and we were all evacuated. Buzz bombs or doodle bugs were a different matter, we had 8 in the area, at Sherwood Park Road, Wide Way & Manor Road, we were bombed out twice. We sheltered in an underground shelter which is now under the Church of Ascension, Father Shute would play ...see more
I was born in Collierswood Maternity Home, a very short time before it was bombed during the Second World War. The year was 1944. My family being homeless were housed in requisitioned properties in Mitcham. We were among the many poor families that seemed to have been moved from one house to another. We finally found ourselves, unknown to us, entering the last house we were ever to ...see more
I am trying to trace a woman by the name of Lily Fox, born in 1938 in Ireland. We know a Lily Fox married a Derek Rose on the 7th March 1959 in St Barnabas Church in Mitcham. He was a carpenter aged 26 and she was a cashier aged 20 years at that time. The address I have is 63 Ashbourne Road, in Mitcham where they were living when they got married.
I know Lily had a baby daughter in March 1960, as a postcard was ...see more
Hello all, my name is Steve Lane and I found this site whilst tracing my family. As a kid I lived in [Conningsby Court] Armfield Cresent. My dad Alf Lane used to drink in the Buck's Head and as a kid I remember sitting outside with a drink and a penny biscuit in his van on the little forecourt which had a fish stall. My grandfather, also Alfred Lane, was a lifegaurd at Mitcham Baths and he lived in Lavender ...see more
Hello, what a remarkable site. I came across it by accident while looking for something else. I was facinated by the reference to Lonesome . I also went to Lonesome School from around 1951 to 1961 followed by my 3 younger sisters. Our maiden name was Clare and we lived in Oakleigh Way. I well remember sites like Figs Marsh, Three Kings Pond, Mitcham Commom, The Majestic Cinema etc. At one point in our lives I and 2 ...see more
I was born in Streatham Road in 1948 and lived there until 1968 when I had to leave to get closer to my work. I looked out the bathroom window onto Figges Marsh and often played there. I saw my first film at the Majestic, my first school was Gorringe Park, and I'd catch the bus to go to Tooting at The Swan bus stop outside the pub. I was shocked recently to see how much it has changed. The Swan has ...see more
My father owned 28 Gaston Road, Mitcham,Surrey. His mother and father lived at the house after the end of the Second World War. Their names were Christopher Harold Manley and his wife Annie. I guess they died sometime in the 1940s. At their passing my aunt Sally Manley stayed living at the house until her passing in the 1960s. I gather she was employed by the Post Office. Does anyone know of these people ? Please contact me at jon_manley@bigpond.com