Croydon, Crown Hill c.1965

Photo ref: C201155

What a fantastic website. So many fond memories. I moved to Croydon with my parents when I was two years old. Even in the mid nineteen fifties it would be considered a little too expensive to afford ones own camera, let alone the interest in collecting photograph’s of ones home town. We lived only a few minutes away from Surrey Street, Wandle Park and Duppas Hill Park. Sailing model boats on the pond at ...see more

I grew up in Tower View and went to Benson and Selhurst in the 50s to 60s. My friends and I often went to Ashburton Park crossing the old golf course. Most of our memories come from activities at St Georges. We did several plays for the Millenial. I was a page to Archbishop Whitgift in the Sunday school one and an officers wife of the East India Company in the school one. I remember the Queen coming for the celebration and was ...see more

Hi, I was born in Purley in 1950 and moved to Crawley in 1957 so my memories are sketchy. What I do remember was Kennards in about 1954/5 and a pony or donkey ride that used to start outside and go into a park or open area close by. Does anyone remember that too? Also Kennards top floor and tea room, a quartet playing to serenade us tea drinkers and monkeys/ baboons in cages on the top floor. Remember flaunting my long hair ...see more

Hi, I just stumbled on this fabulous site as I was trying to find some photos of the Duppas Hil Lane area. I lived at number 23 Duppas Hill Terrace from around 1963-71 and I would have been 12 or 13 ish when the lovely Croydon Council decided to tear our house down and build the block of flats that now stand there. In the winter when it snowed and it often did, I remember vividly making a ...see more