Old photos of Crystal Palace Road.

[AnnaPanda18]

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone can help me. It's my grandad's 80th birthday and I'm trying to find photos of a shop that his family owned on Crystal Palace Road in the 1930-50s. I have done some research at Southwark history library and it was 168 crystal palace road, a boot repair shop called Watsons. If anyone has any photos of the road from this time frame, I would really appreciate it!

Thanks very much,

Anna.

[Iloveeastdulwich]

Unfortunately not your grandad's shop

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/file.php?20,file=102983

[uncleglen]

That photo is probably opposite the bit of CP Rd between Goodrich Road and Jennings road- numbers 269-281?

[Iloveeastdulwich]

Thank you uncleglen, I think it says number 283 on the shop behind.

[AnnaPanda18]

Thanks so much! I will definitely use that photo anyway and it's great. Do you know what year it was taken by any chance?

[Iloveeastdulwich]

Hi Anna

If you message computedshorty it's his photo and he may be able to help you further;

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,1162206

[hammerman]

Great photo and uncleglen was one house out in address surely I love east Dulwich?

Probably mid to late 50s photo in date.

[uncleglen]

It looks like there is a bombed out site to the left of the shops. There are still a couple of shops there, the newsagent, the chiropracter, but the rest have been turned back into houses (although there was a cafe in the row not too long ago), and they are still recognisable as former shop fronts.

[intexasatthe moment]

computedshorty say this

"Here is a picture of myself on right, and two mates a few years later note Emergency Water Tank built in the bomb site with th bricks from the two houses that were bombed, all the buildings down to the site were shops."

about the picture .