Happy Childhood In Selsdon.

A Memory of Selsdon.

My family moved to Selsdon in 1951. I was 4 years old. We lived in Selsdon Vale on our pig farm called Woodley. I went to Selsdon School. It was the happiest time of my life.
I so well remember the village as we called it and the Bird Sanctuary where I enjoyed walking the dogs and tobogganing in the snow. The rec was a bit far, but I did go there a few times - on my bike. I spent endless hours sitting under a tree in our orchard whilst reading Enid Blyton and climbing up the bales of straw in the barn where I could have been anywhere within my vast imagination.
I was also married in the Baptist Church in 1966.
My father sold the farm to a building company who purchased the whole of Selsdon Vale and erected the housing estate which now stands there.
I hold Woodley, Selsdon Vale as a very precious memory deep in my heart. I can still look at an aerial photo which I have, taken in the early sixties. I think this is my most precious possession :)

Pat Zettler (nee Willers)