Coulsdon, The Recreation Ground c.1955
Photo ref:
C165029
Photo ref:
C165029
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A lone figure walks downhill from the war memorial at the Memorial Ground in Marlpit Lane. The memorial was dedicated on 16 April 1921 and contains the names of 76 local men who died in the Great War. The trees by the entrance to the ground, left, have been replaced by an expanded parking area.
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Memories of Coulsdon, the Recreation Ground c1955
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I lived in Coulsdon from 1955 first in Woodcote Grove Road opposite Smitham school which I attended from 1958-1963. I remember the shops vividly from the United Dairies to Sainbury's with the wall tiles and the cheese cutter and butter pats. I went to school with Barbara Busby, Gillian Honey and Jane Salter and the favourite playground activity was swapping scraps - does anyone remember them!
I left Smitham ...see more
I lived in Tollers Lane, Old Coulsdon and would regularly go to the Marlpit Lane rec' to play rounders, football and hide and seek around the memorial. There was a hole in the chain-link fence behind the memorial which gave us access into the working chalk pits and the goods yard and sidings of Coulsdon North Station. We hunted for lizards and slow worms amongst the debris and building materials stacked in ...see more
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