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Dutch Boy Bagwash was on the corner of Peckham Hill Street and Peckham Park Road always piles of laundry in bags outside ready to be taken in for washing, I used to ride a cycle with one of those little engines that was over the back wheel that you had to put onto or remove from the back tyre travelling dowm Hill Street I was fiddling behind me to release the drive from the tyre but it did not release, I skidded on the morning ice on the exposed Tar bloks and crashed into the pile of bags. The back wheel had bent so had to carry the cycle a few to my workplace. Must have been 1954 or near.

Time to remember

These buildings were the old East Dulwich Police Station in Crystal Palace Road befor they moved to Lordship Lane.

At that time two brick built Air Raid Sheltes were in the Library Gardens, one by the Trafic Lights and one in the corner by by the first house in Eyenella Road, here my younger sister a twin aged six was playing picking Daisies when the Doodle bug flew over, those in shelter dragged her into the shelter, she remembers it exploding and coming out saw hymn books on the grass, why had my sister roamed so far? During this time there were very few cars just the trams and buses, a near miss for her but she had closer ones later. She now lives in Eastbourne aged 77 her twin has now died.

Damage by Doodle Bug. SE22 Dulwich/Camberwell V1 Flying bomb East Dulwich Between Lordship Lane, Court Lane and Eynella Road None killed injured 14 people 13/07/1944 17:22 afternoon The V1 fell in the area behind Dulwich Library at the junction of Lordship Lane and Woodwarde Road. It injured 14 people and demolished part of a church and the priest?s house in Lordship Lane. . 9 shops and 40 houses suffered severe damage in Lordship lane and 50 houses badly damaged in Court Lane. The damaged/rebuilt area can clearly I lived nearby in Lordship Lane.

The Post Office has changed shops many times, the first I remember was when it was at number eight Woodward Road next to the alley that led behind the shops to Lordship Lane, the shop is now known as Pickwick Estates. It moved after the Bombing to opposiite the Library in Lordship Lane.

Disappointing my wife did not see the Fireworks from St Thomas? as it was closed to all entry even the next night shift nurses, only one nurse was there in Ward, she tried her best to move the patients to an open widow to at least hear, they did hear the singing, unfortunately my wife was wired to a monitor so could not go to the window. We have in the past been there waching so she can recall seeing it then, but that was years ago.

Sorry to deviate from the main subject Fireworks. I believe that my wife is on the sixth floor of St Thomas? Hospital looking down, I have not been able to get there for a visit due to my own illness, but phone three times a day, she has her Mobile phone, that I have topped up by ?20.00. so that she can take pictures of the fireworks just below the Ward. Her first operation was on the 23rd December but it did not work properly, she had a second on 24th December the operation to remove the fitted one and fit new parts, but the return to health after all this is very slow. Yesterday while having an Echogram the Student learning about X-rays said to her, ? how good to see you again I was present at your operation it was very complicated, I recognised you from your name, glad to see you awake again ? A long time since her Emergency admission on Tuesday 18th November at another Hospital with Pneumonia, then Pleurisy, then 4 Dental Extractions, and facial surgery, that had to be done prior to heart surgery. I think I might buy her a new Mobile phone as a late Xmas present as she was unable to hang up her stocking Xmas Eve. Thank you for your good wishes on her recovery. Shorty.

My wife is recovering from a double heart Operation ( the first one failed ) in St Thomas' Hospital and can see the barge where the fireworks will be lighted,after six weeks here this be interesting for her. But would willingly miss it to get home.

!950 Sunbeam Talbot 90 brothers car used to go to Saint Clements Church Friern Road newly rebuilt after the war. Then 1960.

What car did you have to your wedding a Rolls Royce, vintage car, or go by Bus.

Hi Sue. Very frightening for you, remember if you claim now you will have to pay a far higher premium for several years to come. My car is a Nissan Micra reg in 2000, it is a metallic purple stands out like a sore thumb. You can get a paint match from Halfords just take a paint flake to them for the spray can. Regarding the hinges those on the replacement bonnet should be OK, but those on the car are known to have rust in this area and it is tricky working in this bulkhead , I would go this way. I was once following a tipper lorry on the A2 at Tollgate fly over, reading the slogan on the back, was Bishops Demolition. ?Watch it come down?, just then a brick jammed between the back twin tyres was thrown up though my windscreen, shattering and obscuring my view I knew I was above on the fly over above the Gravesend Road, with no hard shoulder I had to rely on my view through my side window, and I knew that there was a road coming up from below to join the Motorway, fortunately no vehicle was coming. I stopped further up and broke out the windscreen, but was worried that my two cats were out of the basket, we were coming back from a weekend holiday my wife held on to them, I drove back to my employers yard in South Norwood parked the van and took another one to get me home without more problems. Don't worry I did not pinch the van I was the Transport Manager. I bought my Nissan from the brother of a Soldier killed in Iraq It had been parked at the barracks while he served over seas. There were three brothers, together one remained, the other was stressed and had to leave the regiment. If you want to take the pay out, and keep the car and repair it you can, but if it is classed as a write off, it will have to pass a new MOT and the insurers might raise the premium knowing it had been a write off. Good luck.

David. This is the record you wanted. Percy Seymore was my school chum he had his legs badly injured. A large boy who died aged 50 falling from a roof. I had so many memories on this page I had to remove most of the early ones posted about 2009. Dulwich/Camberwell SE22 East Dulwich Between Crystal Palace Road and Darrell Road V1 Flying Bomb 3 Killed 03/08/1944 at 10:24 This was the 3rd of the 4 V1's that were to fall in this small area of East Dulwich, It struck at the South end of Crystal Palace and Darrell Roads It demolished 14 houses and shops and caused damaged to 100 others. The area has been re- developed with post-war housing. .

Living here there are places that other people are unaware of. Greenaway & Son Builders House on Lordship Lane was used as Offices, they were immaculate, no builders equipment was ever kept here, they had a yard in Sunwell Street Peckham, now long gone, and is now a Park. Their lorries were kept in locked Railway Arches under Queens Road Station. I was an Apprentice Carpenter signed up until I reached twenty one, on reaching eighteen I opted to go into the army, rather than delay going until I reached twenty one. I worked on bombed houses in Barry Road / Etherow Street / Friern Road, then on Prefabs at Stuart Road Peckham, them working at the yard in Peckham making timber roof trusses for Airy Houses in Pluckly Kent that were taken by the lorries in sections. We then built new houses on Knoyle Street Deptford, I was involved in every thing from marking out the site to the finished houses, the general foreman said I must learn it all as it would be needed in my future. The tradesmen were classed as direct labour, and as the Forces and could not leave an employer, so were moved to the next site, some places miles away, I could not be told to move as I was still under age. The work was now getting more distant and I opted to work in the Yard supplying the equipment for the coming sites, anything from huts / scaffolding /mixers / shoves, picks, hammers. When a site was finished all that was left was taken to the next site if it could be used, or returned to the yard. During this time no new vehicles were made so ex military lorries were bought and altered at the yard to suit the equipment of builders, painted grey with a large GREENAWAY & Son Ltd in red. I have since made contact with the son Frank Greenaway. Mentioning the Boys Brigade, I recall that the Scouts hut was behind the prefabs opposite, reached down an alleyway beside the first house in Milo Road, there was also two more houses and a tennis court there. The Milo Garage hade two petrol pumps, and they did servicing cars, this was demolished the Camberwell Council built two rows of single garages about forty in all, I rented one. If anybody parked a car at night in a main Road they had to fix a red light on the roof of the car, a lead was crocodile clipped on the terminals of the battery, we often found in the morning that this small light had drained the battery flat, so we had to start the car with putting the starting handle through the front bumper engaging the socket and turning the handle until it started, of coarse you had to turn on the ignition and set the engine to run first, it often kicked back giving you a severe jolt.

You might like this website to be found in the Lounge by Johnnyboy. Prefabs - Camberwell Borough Council Camberwell Borough Council www.camberwellboroughcouncil.co.uk/prefabs?Cached This picture was opposite side of road