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Dr Gunawardene was our GP in the 1940's. My mother always spoke very highly of him. I thought he'd been struck off, but I'm glad to hear that he was repreived. Do you know what became of him?

I know that there was a P.O.W camp on Peckham Rye during the war but someone told me there were also pig sties. Does anyone know if this is true?

Does anyone remember or know about an airplane that came down at the top of Dog Kennel Hill during WW2? It was in the grounds of a large building in Champion Hill, which we knew as Green Lane for some reason. I never found out if it was one of ours or how it came to be there.

Ultraconsultancy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My understanding is that this is an urban myth > started by getting the cart before the horse. > > These fences were designed and erected in the 60s > and 70s to be used as stretchers in time of > emergency, either fire or civil defence. This was > a product of the same paranoia that created the > much loved Protect and Survive. > > Metal was scarce in both WW1 and WW2, and > stretchers were made of wood and canvas with > leather buckles and metal clips. > > If you look closely at the 'stretchers' you will > see that the thechnology in the mesh, the extruded > tubes and the welding is much more modern. > > The need to have a ready supply of stretchers near > blocks of flats has IIRC been superceded by > developments in the fire service, who now have > inflatable slides like those fitted to airliners. > > Of course I stand to be corrected on all of this; > I was having precisely the same conversation with > a chum of mine in lovely SE5 just last week, > probably the same ones as you, ratty. > > Ultraconsultancy My family lived in the flats during the war and my brother told me the original cast iron railings were cut down and removed for the war effort.