Cotmandene Cresent

I saw cottmandene crescent being built! Early 1950s.i started at the brand new midfield school 1952/3 . I remember sometime in the early 1960s a post office van parked in cottmandene rolled down the hill and hit a pram outside woolworths.the baby died I'm sad to say. I met a lovely lady called Sandra Newton who lived atl liethhill just off mickleham drive.she was so pretty! She was 15 and I was 17 in 1959.i met her outside the chip shop in cottmandene in may 1959. I had just bought my pride and joy my Norton 600 motor bike! She came over and spoke to me. IV never forgotten Sandra such a lovely young lady.years later when I was a train driver in the 1970s/80s I was driving a late night train from Holborn viaduct and I let people ride in the gaurds brake behind my cab as the train was packed. Got talking to someone and they said they new Sandra and she was sadly in a wheelchair. I do wonder if she is still around?

I moved to St Pauls Cray in 1948 from London i was 5 went to Midfield s m left there in 1958 lived in Beddington Road my brother left there only 4 years ago. and have a friend who still lives in Leith Hill .My pride and joy was my Triumph Bonniville T120 stolen from outside my home.. Great times