Nostalgic memories of Tooting's local history
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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.
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Displaying Memories 11 - 20 of 95 in total
I went to a tech college 1952 near/in Tooting Broadway I think next door
To a Convent as I always watched nuns walking in the Garden when standing outside the heads office....we girls wore Navy uniform with brading depicting your house and a scull cap hat with Tassle....cannot find anything about it in Google.
Hi, just wondered if anyone remembers my Dad's shop at 126 Tooting High Street, it was situated between Webbs Scrap Metal Merchants and a factory called Sterns, opposite Woodbury Street, This would have been 1950's
My mother is writing aother volume of her memoirs and suggested that I send you an account of her sojourn in Tooting whilst her mother was Matron of the Royal Dental Hospital and she spent six happy years at the convent school. This is part of chapter 5 of her current work:
Over the years, the Holy Family Convent in Tooting, had become a finishing school for girls from France. I ...see more
I SPENT A FEW YEARS IN TOOTING, AND LIVED IN ASHBOURNE ROAD, TOOTING. THIS WAS NEAR TO A TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE AND MANY SHARED THE HOUSES IN THAT AREA AS STUDENTS. I HAD MY FIRST CHILD THERE AND KNEW MANY PEOPLE IN THE AREA, PARTICULARLY AT NUMBER 7 ASHBOURNE ROAD, THOUGH I HAD FRIENDS DIANE AND BRIDDY BIRD IN ACACIA AVENUE WHERE THEY LIVED WITH JULIAN DANTE BIRD WHO PLAYED WITH MY DAUGHTER, THERE ...see more
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Went to Convent of Holy Family Tooting Broadway. In early 1980s Headmistress was Miss Shine. Remember getting 95 bus to and from school and still have school blazer and crest. Gathering for school assembly in hall. Sad to think the school is no more. Made many friends Bernadette, Anne, Mary, Maureen, Anita x many more.
Breda Fahy
In 1957 I commenced, aged 10, at Franciscan Boys Primary School, in Mr Norman Leslie Caunt's Class 4, and a short while later moved up a year into his Class 2. I have a photograph of Class 2 taken in 1958, with many of the boys' surnames listed separately, although the majority of their first names are now sadly forgotten by me due to the passing of the many intervening years.
In September 1958 I progressed ...see more
Hi,my name is Ben Harverson i am trying to trak down some old mates of mine.we used to knock around together on aboyne park and Henrys cafe on garrett lane back in the late 60s.
Hi' my name is Ben Harverson i live in Tooting; 35 Brightwell cres, from 1953 to 1971 . I went to
Hillcroft school 64 to 68. My DAD and his Brothers had D I Y family Business; a yard in Charlmont Rd
and two shops one on Tooting High St and one on Garrett lane in the 50,60 and 70. Does anybody remember the shops,the yard or me. the name of my DAD Business was E Harverson & sons
As a small boy in the 50's on a Saturday morning me and Joey Hodson would walk up Garrett Lane from Summerstown to the pictures at the Granada. Tooting Grenadiers we were called at the Cinema. We couldn't have been more than10 yet we walked along the road without a care. We would knock on people's doors and run off. At the Granada an organist would rise out of the pit on a Wurlitzer and play the tooting ...see more
I was born at St James's hospital in 1952 and lived in Derington Road Tooting, early 1960 moved to Barringer Square Tooting Bec. Attended Franciscan junior school then Hillcroft school Tooting Bec. Then worked as an apprentice electrician with a company call DAW installations in Croydon. Alway remember as a kid in November in the underground (tube) doing, penny for the Guy and spending the money on ...see more