I know this is an old thread but a remarkable one.
I moved to Calton Avenue Dulwich as a child of 3 in 1954. Only after reading this thread and some other local history have I realised how much death and damage was sustained locally in WW2 by the flying bombs. I and friends (I remember Jeremy and Tony who lived in Calton Avenue) aged about six or 8 played on a rocket damage site where Townley Road joined East Dulwich Grove. I was told it had been a church but I’ve just grasped it was a church hall, probably attached to St Barnabas.
Our large 5-bedroom house was rented from Dulwich College via managing agents. It was shabby and had no heating beyond a multi-fuel stove we installed and several 3-bar electric fires scattered round. There was a coal shed, an outside loo - also an indoor one - terrifying ‘geyser’ for hot bath water….my parents had a messy divorce around 1962. If they had bought the house when they could, rather than divorcing, they and their children might have ended up pretty well off!
