Rocky742

Thank you to all who have replied to my post.

Thank you. I think computed..... passed away some time ago. If I'm wrong I humbly apologise.

Long shot I know. Does anyone have any info on the balloon that was in the school grounds in ww2?

Please tell me when the bell tower in Heber Rd school was taken down. I have sent an email to admin at the school which has been ignored. Not the manners I learned when a pupil there in the 1940's! Thank you

Replying to my own request. I was 9 years old. In Jennings Rd we had an enormous bonfire in the road, and burnt all the rubbish we and our parents could find

What did you or your grandparents/parents do to celebrate VE Day 1945?

Don't know about bike sheds in front gardens but can remember the bike shed at the hospital! Wow!

When I was a kid during WW2 the 'paddling pool' was full of broken glass and dog mess. Is this the same place?

Davis Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > LadyDeliah Wrote: > > 'Davis, don't give up. The EDF has become really > boring because the same people jump on new comers > and most of the interesting posters have left. > > I don't bother with it much any more because it's > full of crap mostly nowadays, but your posts have > been quite interesting so far and when the idiots > get off your back and leave you to post in peace, > I'm sure you will find others will engage.' > > > -------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > > Thank you for the kind words and the positive > feedback. > > It does seem that some members have adopted a very > aggressive and patronising culture and are thus > unable to engage with ideas but rather resort to > insult and slander. I am sure they have their > reasons (social, cultural, economic, past trauma > etc..) but I just wonder if this is representative > of their 'off-line' behaviour? Are either of you AOB, AOG, JAGS or DC?

Christmas University Challenge isn't a good advert for them is it?

hi missteak where is lower scumpton?

Happy Christmas from Taddiport (North Devon)

Long shot I know but does anyone have a photo of the ww2 Barrage Balloon in Townley Rd opposite Alleyn's?

I left ED when I joined the RAF in 1954. Still look back with fond memories I was born in Jennings Rd, lived there through the war, went to Heber Rd school when it had a bell tower. When I look at Google street maps, I know it's 60yrs ago, but I have trouble recognising places. Hey Ho, would like to come back sometime

Hope all is ok Are you connected

Terrible scene. Where was it?

With my Dad, just before he rejoined the Royal Marines, on the unbuilt Anderson

At that time I would have been three and half years old.. I don't remember specifically but I do remember going down to the Anderson airaid shelter in the garden on numerous occasions and being kept awake by the noise of the bombing. I will always remember the smell of the paraffin lamp in the shelter and when I smell paraffin now the memomies come back. Dad was away in the Royal Marines so it was just Mum, me ,Nan and Grandad ( who because of their age had difficulty getting in the shelter) and Uncle Will if on leave from the RAF. It was not very comfortable but we survived. Later in the war when we had the V1 attacks Dad was home on leave and was having a haircut in a barbers in Hindmans Rd when one crashed. He came home smothered in dust, later he got stuck in the doorway of the shelter as he tried to enter frontwards, ( we had leant to go in backwards!) He said he was safer back in the Marines! There must be many more memories later. Rocky

Thanks for the photo. I recoginse the area well. In front of you was a bakers (Noeths I think), on the other corner is the Castle pub, behind you was a hardware shop(Lashams?) on the other corner was a grocers who had another shop at the top of Goodrich opposite Murtons. The third shop up from the water tank was a cycle shop named Crystal Cycles,being a keen cyclist I worked there part time early 1950's just before I joined the RAF. Remember the Fish and Chip shop well, spent many an hour outside with my friends, but this would have been after the war in the early 1950's Rocky

Thanks for the map of the bomb site at the end of Jennings Rd. Could you tell me the date of the bombing please. Rocky

Many thanks for the confirmation of the German plane. Also thanks for the many recognisable memories. I was born (1936) in Jennings Rd opposite where the brick air raid shelter was. I rember the Don shop very well. I was a member of the Boys Brigade from the Baptist church on the corner of Goodrich and Lordship Lane, we used to meet in Heber Rd school in the evenings, after which we used to go to a house on the corner of Cyrena and Heber Rd to buy steak and kidney pies. I wonder what was in them??? If any one else has memories please come back.

Thanks for the reply. Would the newspaper be the South London Express. I think that was what it was named.

During ww2 I had a memory of my Mother telling me that when we were coming home from Heber Rd school we were attacked by a German plane. I was going home to Jennings rd. Does any one have any memories of this?