South Ockendon, Church Crescent c.1965

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I went to benyon from 1969 to 1974. My teachers were Mrs Morgan, Mrs Woolliams, Mr Chaudri n lastly Mr Heath. Mrs Chappel was the school cook....Benyon school is still going strong.

It’s been a real pleasure to read all the various memories of South Ockendon back in the 50s and 60s. I was born in Brixton and moved to West Norwood. My Mum & Dad both wanted to move out of London and we managed to get 2 potential council swaps arranged to South Ockendon. So one weekend in January 1956 Mum, Dad, brother Neil and myself jumped on a Green Line bus from Aldgate ...see more

We moved to the prefabs in South Road, South Ockendon in 1949 From London, my sister and I started school in the village school the headmaster was Mr Impy after that we went to the new school which was called Mardyke School I only remember the name of one teacher which was miss Wright she was the PE teacher and had long red fingernails, my sister passed the 11 plus but there was only one place at the local ...see more

I went to Mardyke school in the early 50’s and I recall that we went abroad to Belgium and Holland. My recollection is a teacher called Mr Childs and there was speculation that one of the children developed some form of polio. Also we used to live at 208 South Road South Ockendon. Keith