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There is a short video of the old school in Iron Mill Lane, Crayford entitled: St Paulinus School old building on Iron Mill Lane, Crayford.

A memory of Crayford

I have lived in Welling most of my life. I lived in Selwyn Crescent with my parents until 1975. I then moved to a flat in Welling, in fact the one in the picture above Stylo Shoe shop. I moved to Crayford where we bought a house. ...Read more

A memory of Welling by mrsmarilynmackay

I now live in Gisborne in New Zealand and turned 70 on 29 September this year. Born in Sheffield I was evacuated to York in 1940 along with my mother (Mary) and older brother John. My dad, Reg, remained at his work in ...Read more

A memory of York in 1940 by Barry Allison

My mother's sisters (and she had a number of them) all seemed to live in Crayford - Aunts Mag, Martha, Maud, Rose, Phyllis, Violet and Freda. My favourite aunt lived in Iron Mill Lane and she had four children - Harold, Leslie, ...Read more

A memory of Crayford in 1945 by Jean Hendy

My mum (Win) worked in Parsons the hardware shop and also the grocers. I remember helping out a couple of times with grocery deliveries by riding the big black bicycle with a large basket on the front which was stacked with ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1961 by Patricia Barber

My name is Michael Mancey. In 1949, when I was four years old, my parents, youngster sister and I, moved to a brand new council house in Windsor Road. Although the postal address was Hounslow West, it was in ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1950 by Michael Mancey

Until the current concrete flood walls and steel piles that line the banks of the Fossdyke Canal were installed in the mid-1960s, this area of the village regularly flooded during the autumn and winter ...Read more

A memory of Saxilby in 1965

I was born 1945, lived with my mum and dad in one room at back of my granparent's house, 67 Monington Cres, which had a huge back garden. It backed on to the Parkway and I had many great times there. We would go ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1955 by Keithy Turner

I started school at Cranford Infants School 1974, Mr Hill school headmaster. I remember Ms Hickmett, Music Teacher teaching us in one of the huts and running to the school fields up to the river Crane where ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1973 by Appollo Mathews

My friends and I spent many happy hours in a tin boat that my brother made for me, paddling up and down between the two bridges at riverside Crayford. Often we would use our nets to catch sticklebacks and shrimps but always ...Read more

A memory of Crayford in 1952 by Francis Coxall