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Wow I find it incrediable that this information and pictures too have not been lost. I wonder what else is out there so many stories.

Thoses were hard years but as kids it was just fun we did not have to clean up at least we were warm. I do remember Ice on the inside of our bedroom windows and all the kids jumping into one bed just to keep warm.

It was a 185 Bus to Victoria that slid back down gave everyone quite a fright. Do remember going with all the kids collecting the Peat from the road when they took up the Tram Lines, it burt well No wonder we had such bad fog in thoses years.

Remember going on a Tram but not rolling down. Do remember a number 185 sliding back down during a snow storm 1960 or 1961. didn't get out of ED for two days.

Thank you so much great picture

You have just confirm something for my Grand Daughter who thought her Gran was crazy when told that there was a Muffin Man when I was a little girl in Dulwich. Having been born and grown up in South Africa this really was strange for her to understand, or that her Great Great Grand father used to light the Gas Street Lamps He worked for the Gas works for 25 years fought in both wars and died in 1956 from lung Cancer due to being Gassed in the Great War.

The Odeon, used to go every Saturday morning from 1952 no dvd's or even much TV in thoses days,when I was in the UK in 1984 it was sad to see it had gone. Ther are a few of us around that still remember it

The chap on the Motor bike is my Great Uncle Wolley Smith who lived at that address (not sure when it changed but had to be after 1968) with his 12 brothers & sisters, my Great Gran Smith lived their from the about 1885 untill 1974 when she moved to my Gran,s at 20 Colwell Road the Christie,s live there from the just before the Great War untill my mum died in 1980