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Castle Hill Close

A Memory of New Addington.

I remember living in the post war prefabs,in I think it was called Castle Hill Close,number 4,right next to a power pylon.Yoy could walk across an empty field to the New Addington Hotel,then into Addington.I can always remember going with the local baker on a sat: morning delivering fresh bread from his van,pulled by a horse.The smell was wonderful.I'm pretty sure his name was Miller.In those days you could ride your push bike down to the Cricketers arms and back.Wheat fields across the road where we used to play and hide...long time ago.
I went back for a visit 10 years ago(from australia) where I now live,hardly recognized the place..lol.
Jim Young.


Added 08 March 2010

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Comments & Feedback

Hi Jim, My name is Gary Bint I lived at 49 Castle Hill Crescent in one of the prefabs,Although I don't remember you, I think I knew your dad was his name Mel or Mal I think he was a Builder or tyler and he had a three wheeler van I think it was a bradford or jowett.
I remember a few of the people who lived on your street. In the first prefab under the Pylon was a family called Bean, further down were the Mitchel's then the Randell's , Miller's, Goddard's ,.Bradley's.The Field at the back of your house Once housed a big wooden shed that the workers on the prefabs had for their canteen they also had German prisoners of war working with them,it also had a large dump of old broken asbestos sheets in which we used to make camps in. Do you remember the gypsies
parking up their with their horses and wooden caravans.on their way to Kent to go fruit picking. lol gary bint

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