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computedshorty

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  1. It is possible to add picture to that site now. [www.camberwellboroughcouncil.co.uk]
  2. Sorry I did not offer a peice of Birthday cake, we decided to keep it small I had the outer and let the wife eat all of the middle. Well she is an Eskimo.
  3. St Anthony's School was in Lordship Lane it is now called Thomas Moore Hall, the old Church Hall next to Number 1 in Bassano Street facing the old Steam Laundry The school was for boys and girls and infants. These were the Children moving from School to Church that needed shelter from the blitz. I had my Wedding Reception in the Hall in 1960, A bit dull and dark, it was the only place available that day. My best man was not sober enough to get his car back from outside St Clement Church in Friern Road for two days. Fifty three years ago in July.
  4. Good to hear that there are others that alow their other half to get involved, here Mrs Shorty helps me put up the roof trusses in the bungalow we built. She likes being on the top scaffold to do the painting, I had to make the tea. Never stop a willing hand.
  5. This picture taken about sixty years ago near the end of Blackwater Street & Lordship Lane, note I am wearing my Zak Dingle style Peaked Cap, as shown I am still wearing it in my Coffin Mobile.
  6. Bassano Street had Brick built Air Raid Shelters on the same side as the Steam Laundry, these were a little different to others as they had an arched concrete roof opposed to the flat roof ones. The school teachers thought that the children should not use them. This is a quote from a report '?There was no air raid shelter, as we regarded the surface shelters alongside as meant for the residents in Bassano Street ?. No short cut Allyways but you can park outside your house.
  7. Thanks for your Birthday wishes. The wife is part exchanging my old hand pulled carriage as she finds it a bit tiring, for the more suitable coffin carriage, when the time comes just take me there and you can sell the chassis for a few drinks.
  8. The Lane was to the Dulwich Park Groundsmen's Nurseries and Green houses, it is thought that the staff used this entrance to get into the park to open the gates to the public. Although the lane passed the back of Barcleys Bank in Dulwich Village it could not be used by the bank staff, if they used the lane they would have had to continue past the green houses to the Service entrance into the park, from here they would have to leave the park and turn right for the bank. To date there have been built nine huses in the space between the Green Houses and the Bank. One of the Park Keepers was my mates mother Mrs Sis Sissons, who dressed in a brown uniform and wore trousers and trilby style hat, who lived in Landcroft Road just below Heber Road.
  9. The Back Passages that were there before the bombing these led from Lytcott Grove to Playfield Crescent.
  10. Hidden Back Passageways. Some time ago a local resident questioned if there was ever a Passageway from Plough Lane to Goodrich Road, I have traced it and where it came out into Goodrich road with a Coblers Shop behind an Offlicence next to the Allyway, it was at one time registered as 60 A Goodrich Road number 60 being before the Castle Pub. There was also a small sweet shop facing the Allyway. Landells and Goodrich Road junction was another Off Licence a Grocery Shop and Will's Green Grocers next to the Sweep in Landells Road.
  11. John. I have placed many posts to your site but You have no facility to post pictures on your site. You could of course copy and paste those to be found elsewhere into your site. [www.camberwellboroughcouncil.co.uk]
  12. This is an old picture of Lordhip Lane near the Library showing where Enid Blytons home was destroyed.
  13. The bomb that dropped in Lordship Lane between Northcross Road and Shawbury Road has only shown the site as it was cleared up afterwards. I have now traced a Picture of the place before it was bombed, unfortunatly it has an over print on it, but it does give an idea of the place as it was.
  14. It was more acceptable when the temperature was in Fahrenheit, ? the temperature will reach the low eighties ?. That would suit me quite well, but I am willing to share it with those who are younger.
  15. I have been thinking of buying myself a 82nd birthday present next friday just to get me and the wife about. Dont trust a Buggy as if the battery runs out I could not get it home so I have looked into an electric Bilke if that battery runs out I can peddle it home. I might give this Pope Mobile a try, it seems just the job for shopping,and I can put my Zimmmer in it, and the dog can sleep in it. I wonder if I will have to wear a helmet?
  16. 06/01/1945. 17:06 pm. This serious incident occurred when a V2 fell in Court Lane, at the end of DoverCourt Road. 7 houses were demolished in Court Lane and a further 20 badly damaged. All the houses in Court Lane gardens suffered damage as did 12 in Eastland Crescent and 8 in Dover court Road. The damaged houses have been repaired and the 7 demolished ones re-built. They can be easily spotted because of their different style to their neighbours and the 1940' metal windows. This came under the area of the Dulwich Village Post no 60 Air Raid Wardens based at Pickwick Road, but due to the neerness of the East Dulwich Wardens based in the Library, they also attended the rescues my father was a Warden who helped. There's a new bench at Court Lane Gardens commemorating the 7 deaths. I might venture a guess the author of the Website V1 Doodle Bugs and V2 Rockets ( Steve ) has now returned to live in Court Lane. who's Grand parents were involved in that bombing, he might have been involved with the Bench.
  17. This was the one that fell fouteen doors down from my home. 22/08/1944 05:00 am. This V1 in Lordship lane fell on the West side just South of the junction with Townley Road. It demolished 20 houses in Lordship lane and damaged 130 others in Lordship Lane, Beauval Road and Heber Road. The impact site is very clear to see particularly on the West side of Lordship lane where the site is still partly populated with pre-fabs. The other side of the road has also been re-developed post-war.
  18. This is the V1 that Fell 14 days after D Day. 20/06/1944 18:12 pm. The first V1 to fall in Dulwich 8 houses were demolished,55 suffered severe damage and 71 slight damage. The area today around Friern Road and Etherow Street has been totally re-developed as a result of this V1 and the V2 which fell on the 1st November
  19. Prevous piture is this.05/08/1944 This was a very serious V1 incident, one of the worst in South London. The V1 hit the co-op store at the corner of Northross Road in Lordship Lane. The Co-op and 6 other shops were demolished and 20 houses damaged in Lordship land and 40 in Shawbury Road. A Salvation army hall was also damaged. It is stated in ARP reports held in the public records office that damage extended across a 700 yard radius, greater than the normal blast area. This is probably due to the fact that later V1's were packed with a heavier, more deadly warhead. It was also reported that Anderson shelters in the area stood up well to the blast. Bulldozers were called in to clear the debris and one tram track was cleared by 20.30 of the same day. The whole block where the Coop stood has been re-developed with post war shops. The opposite side of Lordship Lane also shows significant signs of re-building as do houses up Shawbury Road
  20. D Day for the troops might be thought to be indescribable to those living at home, but within fourteen days of the landings in France, we living in Lordship Lane became the target of the V 1 Flying Bombs and the V 2 Rockets, many destroying our homes in Lordship Lane and close by streets, troops might be expected to be wounded in battle but many of their families now lost their lives in their own home, so if a soldier survived the battles would his home remain for his return?
  21. ?D? Day 6th June. Over the next few days you might see memories of the invasion on France called D Day. There must be still many who have memories of being there. I was not there myself, but my elder brother was, he was on a landing craft, he was a dispatch driver on a motor cycle, as the craft dropped the front ramp the men charged forward but the craft had not as yet reached the beach, they sank into the water and the craft passed over them, my brother was ordered to move off, his motor cycle dropped into the waves he and his motor cycle were trapped under the flat bottom of the boat, fortunately the motor cycle saved him from being crushed he was held under water until the soldiers and vehicles got off, the craft then rising enough for him to struggle to get free, and get up the beach but his leg was badly damaged, there were so many casualties that his regiment had to amalgamate with another one. He survived the war, to live to sixty nine. Are there any who were there, who have a personal memory?
  22. A nice slice of new crusty bread.
  23. Denmark Hill was once a thriving area, with the Camberwell Palace Theatre live shows , the Odeon Cinema corner of Coldharbour Lane, the Golden Domes Cinema very small with gas lamps at the side of the auditorium, this was facing the tram shelter in the middle of the road, the trams were noisy you could hear them at a show, but they got you there and home for a few pence. A Lyons Corner House for your cuppa, or get your fresh pies or sausages from Kennedys, your radio?s from Analoy Radio shop, walk round Woolworth buy a few things for just pence, buy your clothes or even a watch or a gun at J. A. Davis the Mail order Store. Get that excellent service from a much smaller Kings Collage Hospital, no large Dentist Block then, drop into the Fox on the Hill for a livener, visit Ruskin Park, take a train for that day out from Denmark Hill Station. You might even bump into Freddy Mills who lived at the top of the road. Those were the days, now very much altered, the changes are not for the better, still if you did not know how it was then it could suit you.
  24. Document pertaining to the boundaries of plot of land purchased Reading the conditions of the Freehold Deeds, section number eight gave me thoughts that I am bound to maintain the dividing fence to my left, and I must renew the dilapidated and corroded metal fence adjoining my neighbour?s and my plot. To my right was the remains of an ancient fence that was barely visible, and would not stop my animals straying into his garden. Having a conversation with my neighbour, about his fence I asked would he be prepared to contribute toward a new fence, as I was prepared to build it, if he could not find the finance then I would pay for it myself. He stated that he was an old age pensioner and only had a small income, the light construction Bungalow he lived in the maintenance used up most of that. I purchased the fencing for one hundred and twenty foot long. Twenty four foot high by four inches square concrete posts allowing six inches set in concrete. 19 six foot by 1 1/4 concrete gravel boards. and had 19 wooden Lapped panels made six foot long and three foot high to fit between, and ordered the ballast and cement to hold up the posts. Looking at the old metal Strainer Fence of three foot high, it was made up of metal posts concreted into the ground, between each post there were wires stretched through holes in the posts with a tensioned device to pull the slack wire up, there was the remains of a chain link wire mesh fixed to it. I came to the conclusion that it was going to be difficult for me to dig up the metal posts out, with a knob of concrete on the bottom as they would be in the way of the new concrete fence posts. There was a lot of garden bushes now growing through the missing fence from next door, to remove these bushes and the fence would take me a considerable time. I told the owner that it would be easier to leave his fence in situ and move back into my plot a six inches, and build a new fence, saying that as this was to be on my plot completely I would take over the maintenance of the new fence, as I had bought the fence and it was completely in my garden, I realised that by just the six inches now not in my garden multiplied by the length of one hundred and twenty foot, I had relinquished the right to approximately sixty square foot of ground. We agreed, I built the fence creosoted the wooden panels, leaving his old metal Fence to do what he liked with, to be removed at a later date if he wished to. The owners only remark was ? I thought that you were going to build it six foot high ?. I said that unfortunately my own finances would only pay for the fence to be three foot six high, as you can see the old fence still there is six inches lower. Eventually the Metal fence was removed or parts of it bent over and buried, some of these must still be in the ground, by a younger man who visited. I have retained the Receipts for the purchase of the fencing in my name. Unfortunately the owner has now died and can not collaborate my statements. The new owners contest that the fence is mine on my land, the approx measurements were sold to them as 32 feet wide I asked them to measure their plot it is now 32ft 6 ins, my own was 53 ft wide and is now 52ft 6 ins wide. I am too old to pursue this now. They have removed four, three ft high panels and put in six ft high ones in their place and are using it as the back of a shed that he built the roof slopes in my direction is overhanging, I asked him to remove the overhang and the gutter is in now over my garden, he has done this but still claims that the fence is his because the Deeds say that the fence to his left is his, I told him that his fence that was there had been removed after mine had been built on my land.
  25. Take this experience: An estate was to be built, the roads were laid out, but the selling of plots did take a long time. A corner plot was developed, the owner was told to enclose his plot, so he had to build fences to the right, to the left and to the bottom of his garden. These had the boundary ? T ? markings on his side so he owned all three fences, he had financed the fences, so there was no doubt that he owned them. As time went by the plot to his left was built on, they only had to build a fence to the left, so the left fence was classed as theirs. The ? T ? markings showed when this was recorded at Registry. The next plot did not get developed, but the one did two doors down, they built on it, again all fences were theirs, so the ? T ? were recorded as theirs. Development spasmodically, the plot that was left vacant now had a building on it , But no fences needed to be built as they were already in place, so they owned none. No ? T ? marking showed in their plot to be theirs, so they did not have to maintain any fence. I would think that as each plot is developed at different times causes a lot of misunderstanding to the purchaser, you will find that Estate Agents and Vendors, will only state approximate measurements of a plot and quite often miss guide a prospective purchaser that such and such fence belong to this plot, as no such marking were in existence in former times when the plot was recorded. Each plot must be recognised as it is shown on the original Registry Document, if you want to spend money on getting a decision it will cost you money, is it worth your while to find an ownership of a fence?
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