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solstice Wrote:

Do you remember the Nutland family, Susan Nutland went to St. Peters...


Her Brother Peter was in my class from 1959/65 and we lived about 5 doors away from them, on the same side, further away from the top end of the road.


These Guys all lived in the area .Do you remember any of these from that same Primary School year, 1965?


Boys:Peter Nugland/Kenny Abrahams/Johnny Embleton/John Blackmore/Chris Blackie/Clifford Jones/Roy Parker/David Rowe/Robert Tutt/Peter West/Stephen Jewell/Terry Dunn/Gary Clarke/Dave Francis/David Locke/Tony Byerley/Alan CotterChristopher Cotton/Michael Pratt/Stephen Barber/Peter Syers/John Snelgrove/Stephen Sycamore/Paul Hodges/John Simmonds.


Girls: Susan(s) Howard, Simpson, Heywood, Gloria Lane, Rita Abbs, Jeanette Szynacker (sp), Jane Mann, Christine Ridley, Yvonne McQuillan, Sylvia Bowley, Anne Whittle,Janet McKeown,Georgina Roffey,Lorraine Jolly.


Well it was only 44 years ago:))


Or maybe Michael Horsman or Barry Andrews from Michael Faraday itself?

Mick Mac Wrote

> Doctors used to be real people who local people

> really knew and respected but now i think these

> larger surgeries have little personality and I

> think when people are unwell it means a lot for

> them to know they are going to see a person they

> know, rather than a strange face.


I had cause to go to Dulwich Medical Centre yesterday suffering from Sinusitis and was seen by a very professional and caring doctor

So I feel bad about my comments above - the local health centres I guess bring increased efficiencies and you can get good treatment even from someone who does not know you. Today's doctors are probably under more presssure to quickly see and diagnose patients and they achieve this with the minimum of fuss - so hat's off to them. They are a different breed from the old doctors of the past, but no less talented.

solstice Wrote:

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> I don`t remember Janet Stanhope but I just had a

> look at friends reunited, did you know James

> Saker,when we moved to Eugene Cotter House, we

> lived next door to the Saker Family. Will you be

> going to St.Peters on the 26th?


Do you remember any of the rest of my year that I listed earlier, along with Lorraine Jolly and Georgina Roffey that I have thought of since?

Knew James Saker, he went onto my Grammar School=Archbishop Tenisons, Kennington Oval.

He is now a Professor, according to Friends Re-United at Lancaster University, as I recal.


The 26th? Thats a Thursday so I might well go.


Are you thinking of sayone goodbye to John, Solstice?

None of the names look familier, it was along time ago, which one are you? I`ve got a picture of my class mates from 1964ish and I can`t remember any of their names. I can`t go on the 26th I have to work. So James is a professor, I wonder what his sister Joanna is doing now? I wish I had studied more at school. lol.
  • 3 weeks later...
Everyone will be glad to hear that Dr Cranes memorial service happened yesterday and was touching and heartfelt by everyone there. Lots of people went to show their feeling of loss for such a generous and kind man whose home was always open to those in need. Plenty of England players showed up and alledgedly even Arsene Wenger made an appearance. It just goes to show what a truely wonderful gentleman he was that so many people wanted to show their affections. I know the family felt very appreciative of the huge warmth and depth of feeling that was expressed

JDR Wrote:

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> Everyone will be glad to hear that Dr Cranes

> memorial service happened yesterday and was

> touching and heartfelt by everyone there. Lots of

> people went to show their feeling of loss for such

> a generous and kind man whose home was always open

> to those in need. Plenty of England players

> showed up and alledgedly even Arsene Wenger made

> an appearance. It just goes to show what a truely

> wonderful gentleman he was that so many people

> wanted to show their affections. I know the

> family felt very appreciative of the huge warmth

> and depth of feeling that was expressed


Thanks for letting us know JDR.


We have lost a Great, humble, caring Good Man.

  • 1 month later...
Dr Crane was also my GP, i lived in Darwin st and went to Townsend Primary school.I totally agree he was a wonderful man. His skill and dedication saved my life literally. I now live in kent and was so shocked and saddened when i heard tonight why the team were wearing the black armbands.His was my claim to fame and earned me many brownie points with my son when i told him years ago that THE England Dr was once also mine! I remember his smile, his caring nature and his wonderful humour.Nothing was too much trouble day or night weekends or at un godly hours of the night. My love a deep gratitude to him and his family.

poppy22 Wrote:


Dr Crane was also my GP, i lived in Darwin st and went to Townsend Primary school.I totally agree he was a wonderful man......


Lovely sentiments Poppy, and how very well deserved!


Do you agree that we had a real Community then and how sad it was that they built those Estates that began to destroy that Spirit?..


I live in Bexley, along (it seems) with half of Walworth!..they even held a 25-year Re-Union of Walworth School in Bexley as most had moved out.:))


Did most of your friends/neighbours move out to Kent/Surrey too during The 1970's/89's/90's Poppy?

  • 4 years later...

This is dragging an old thread up but for anyone interested Dr Crane is being remembered by Southwark with other people and families who lived and worked in the area. I have just returned from the naming of John Crane street which is a new build of the regeneration of the Aylesbury estate. His wife Penny made a small speech alongside other families who are being remembered in this way.


His wonderful memory will live on

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