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Memories Of My Widnes School Days
Having lived the first 25 years of my life in Widnes ,I have many happy memories of my school days there. Born in Dundalk Lane in 1940, from 1943 until 1945, I attended the Nursery,situated next to Ditton County ...Read more
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Molly Gray's Memories Of Weston Green, Thames Ditton, Surrey.
When we were children during WWII, my brothers Rob and Wilf and myself often visited Weston Green. At Weston Green there were two churches and two ponds called Marneys and Milburns. My ...Read more
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Early Childhood In
We lived in Thames Ditton from about 1951 until 1963. We were in a shabby flat at first ,Warwick Buildings, Summers Road, before moving to a council house in Alexander road. The flats were still fitted with gas lights! The ...Read more
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I Used To Come To Comerfords!
I bought my first motorbike from Comerfords in Thames Ditton (would have been at top right of this picture) in October 1973 - a Yamaha FS1e moped in 'Blackcurrant' metallic. But for up to two years earlier I would ...Read more
A memory of Long Ditton in 1972 by
My Mum Ran Comerfords Corner Shop
We moved south from Chadderton near Oldham in 1965. My mum had taken over running the corner shop that had been bought by Comerford's in their quest to own the entire block. All but one house has ...Read more
A memory of Thames Ditton in 1965 by
Doctor John Lytle, Wych House, Holtwood Rd., Oxshott
I was fascinated to read the comments regarding Dr Lytle whom I met in the early 1980s when I was going out with his daughter Sarah. I was brought up in Thames Ditton, went to school at Kings College ...Read more
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Memories Of Blundell Road Ditton
born in 1940, and fond memories of schooldays at ditton primary ,in Liverpool road before moving on to simms cross, teachers were Miss Hartles Mr jones Eric Williams, Ankers Sammy Butterworth ,and not forgetting the ...Read more
A memory of Widnes by
Follets
As one who was born in Kingston Hospital before WWII, I grew up not far away in Long Ditton. My job in the late 1940s was to go to Kingston Market on Christmas Eve and buy a goose for our Christmas dinner from Follets, when ...Read more
A memory of Kingston Upon Thames in 1948 by
War Memorial In Leadgate
I believe my grandfather's name is on a WW1 Memorial in Leadgate and I wonder why? His name was John James Eccles and he is also remembered on a Memorial of St Patrick's Dipton. Can anyone help with this or with photographs of the memorial please?
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An Evacuee In 1940
I remember my first home in Westbury Leigh was with a family called Rowe, they seemed fairly old people to me (then a ten year old boy) but now I am eighty I don't suppose they were. One of the brothers, a Charles Rowe, ...Read more
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This is the private footbridge to the island at Thames Ditton.
There was once a pub in this area which was called the Ball which may be where the name Ball o' Ditton comes from.
Any early farmstead close to the coast would have been an easy target for raiders and so probably needed defensive ditches - 'Ditton' means a farmstead with a ditch or dyke nearby.
The village grew up firstly when Thames Ditton's commons were enclosed in 1838, and then when the railway arrived in 1885.
The best part of Thames Ditton architecturally is north and west of this viewpoint, which shows the post office at the High Street's junction with Ashley Road.
Cricket too arrived in the 19th century - the first recorded match played by Twickenham Cricket Club was on July 29th 1833 against Thames Ditton - but it was in the next century that the world
