Village School

A Memory of Mottingham.

I went to the village school, firstly the one in Dorset Road and then the primary school near West Park. On the corner was Martins Bank with a big gold grasshopper over the door. I used to try to get to the school playground early after an air-raid to see if I could find any shrapnel. The head master was a Mr. White and the other teacher was Mrs. Phippen. My best friend was Betty Peters who lived opposite the school near The Porcupine pub. My father had a shoe repair shop in the village, opposite the butchers. A Mr. Dillon had the butchers and the off-licence was on the corner of Devonshire Road. We got used to the bombs etc but a buzz-bomb came down, skidded all down the road and hit the petrol garage by the war memorial. It was chaos trying to put the fire out.


Added 29 August 2011

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Hi to you all I lived in mottingham Framlingham cresent I was born 1957 I remember all the great times when a child I walk for miles cow track Chislehurst and I remember smokey joe, people throwing money to smokey he had a old bike no tyers and a tin can for tea to be put into from the café that was in Chislehurst near the ponds. I remember well hall park on sundays they put shows on for children to join in and fairy hill park mottingham station on sunday they have a big van pull up and the man would go to the back to push up the back of the van and there was a screan to watch cartoons woody wood pecker and others. That park was lovely swings long chines on them working the swing so high them jump off, sand pit and the cheese cutter we call it I remember cold harbour whith the fish and chip shop go there Friday evening to buy them. I also went to the parks there the unberella and swings I loved it, park in Chislehurst and the foxes field and mottingham village with the big Toy shop I use to walk down there just to put a penny in to a slot out side the shop to watch the train go round. Mottingham the cabin I remember the ice cream fridge they have out side the shop to buy your ice cream and I remember going to the loft to pick my Christmas present a talky walky doll. The king and queen pub the libery blue bus pull up out side there, I love my child hood. The mottingham secondry school cooking and tennis I loved that, Girls jackey hinson and paula lake and christen mayjor and joanan rennie shelia simsom and jean speed and pat heart jones many more I now living in beautiful Hastings East Sussex been here 13 years I lost all my family sad to say. Pamela Belton now McKenzie love sent to you all out there we blessed to have the fab memory and so many.
Omg brings back a lot of memories I did all these things did you go to the youth club up the cows track we lived in Beaconsfield Road I met my husband there he lived in Framlington Crescent we have been married 50 years nowxxx

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