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Reply to Computedshorty That picture brings back memories, I think it was the 84 and 56 trams that used to terminate at the top of Peckham Rye. When we were kids the conductor would let us switch the seats back for the return journey. Thanks for that. As you seem to know quite a bit about Dulwich, would you know anything about a mansion that was situated between Champion Hill and Sainsbury's before the war. We used to play there after the war and I remember it as being like the grounds of a mansion. There were terraces with stone balustrades and a huge stone fountain which the kids used to float doors on. There were bombed or derelict houses in the vicinity but I can't remember a really grand building.

Does anyone remember Mr Guiliano the ice cream man who used to push his barrow everywhere? And the rose bushes that covered the slope on Albrighton Road. And the air raid shelters between the flats off Dog Kennel Hill?

I remember P.O.W.s in the huts when I was young. I think it was after the war and I believe they were German. I particularly remember icicles on the huts. Someone told me that the kids used to collect cigarette ends for them. I thought I remembered an air raid shelter with a sloping roof in that vicinity, opposite the open air swimming pool.

Was it Marcantonio's ice cream parlour on the corner of Choumert Road and Rye Lane? I remember a greengrocers and fruiters on the opposite side of the road between Choumert Road and the railway bridge. 60 years later I can still remember the smell of the fruit in the summertime. And that is something that sadly few people are going to experience again in this country.

I've been told that during WW2 there were pigsties sited on Peckham Rye on the Nunhead side. Can anyone tell me if this is true?