Nostalgic memories of Raynes Park'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 1 - 10 of 13 in total
My grandfather owned a shop at 562 Kingston Road, Raynes Park, London and would love to see aphoto of it as it was in the 1960's.
I hope someone can help me email
peter_aj@bigpond.com
Cheers
Peter
Going to the pictures at Raynes Park .
If I remember my friend Nigel's sister Denise used to go to her boyfriends flat in RP,
he was studying to be a Doctor, A load of us used to go with her Me Robert, Tania.
Why did we lose contact.
I spent several years in the early '70's living at 198(?) Grand Drive. I think my aunt, Irene Nichols, had lived there since before WW2. She claimed to have seen a pre war cricketer break the clock at Lords. The house was like a time warp back to the war. Her ARP tin helmet was still there, as was a pre war car parked at the side of the house. The car was used to store old copies of the Telegraph ...see more
I was born in Prince George's Avenue in 1940 but spent the war years with my grandparents in Amity Grove. One of my memories of those years was the summer of 1944. A doodlebug ( remember the name ? ) hit St. Matthews Church in Durham Road and all the windows in our house (No 43) blew in !!
We used to live in Lower Morden Lane, opposite the cemetery gates! When I was little the fields opposite were still full of cows and horses, but I believe it has long since been built over with housing. I learned to ride my bike on the quiet paths of the cemetery and remember cycling through the cemetery, coming out in the recreation ground, past the paddling pool, the granite water fountain, the cricket pitch ...see more
Thanks Mr Frith for correcting the title of the photo from High Street to Coombe Lane. Now the heading to my memory doesn't make any sense at all!
This was taken from opposite the junction with Durham Road; the other one was taken opposite Amity Grove. After we moved out of the flat above the butchers (see my other memory) and moved up the hill my way to school was Durham Road, Coombe Lane and Bushey Road where the trolley bus is turning. Then past Carters, known to us boys as Carters Infested Weeds in those days, and on to the complex of schools ...see more
This is Coombe Lane looking towards Raynes Park station, just visible on the righthand edge of the photo. We lived over the butcher's shop in the mid 1950's so its probable we were in residence when it was taken. The butcher outside could be a Mr Sparks as I recall. My Dad managed a butcher's shop in Earlsfield at that time. The Lucas's lived over the Bank (Mr Lucas was a bank employee ...see more
I was born in Phylis Avenue, Motsper Park in 1943 and went to Bushy Shool in 1948. The first thing is that it was just after the war and there were NO CARS! The steets were empty and the only person that had a car was the Canadian doctor who lived at the end of Phylis Avenue, Seaforth. Unfortunately he ran over and killed a very dear friend of mine on about her sixth birthday as she was on her ...see more
I remember Grand Drive in the mid 1950s as in the photograph. I was a teenager at the time. To the left of the fence were fields where horses were kept. It's all built up with a housing estate now. So sad to see the way a lot of the whole area of Raynes Park and Morden has been vandalised by developers.