West Kingsdown, Post Office Stores c.1955
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Photo of West Kingsdown, Post Office Stores c.1955

A Selection of Memories from West Kingsdown

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from West Kingsdown

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Hi. Richard. Great memories of times past. A world without the terrible events that surround us today. Days when we could walk for miles as children, have our sandwich's and pop on the top of a haystack, wander through woods and fields without a worry or care by our parents. If only we could return to those days. Kingsdown was a sleepy, peaceful place, We played in the street, walked through the 'Cornfield' Built ...see more
Hello Peter. My name is Richard Abbott I know the Hart family very well. We lived at "Manor Woods" Hever Avenue. My dad was a serving Army Officer and bought our bungalow off a Mr Knight in 1950, after my dads posting to India The 'Harts' had another son by the name of Ian. Ther shop was called "Handy Stores". It was on our land that a Doodlebug crashed, the wing could ...see more
My name is Peter.I also lived with my family in Hever Road. In 1949 aged 5. Returning from living with my grandmother to my family at 'Selcroft' Hever Road. It was the white painted wooden bungalow opposite the shop, owned by Mr and Mrs Hart, on the cross roads with Hever Avenue. They had two boys, whom I played with named John and Colin Hart. I also knew the Roberts family that lived next door to the ...see more
I remember Hever Road as my cousin Doreen Meddick used to live there in the early 1950s, but she now lives in Canada. I myself used to ride my pushbike around Brands Hatch in the early 1940s as it was a dirt track then. I came to Australia in 1949 and been here ever since.