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Would have been my Great Gran Evelyn prob as my nan Doris, was only there a short while,. Was extended Family living there, Great Nan Evelyn, Grandad Bob, my dad Bob and mum Gladys and me (Alan), was moved out to Grove Park in 1959.

Alan

Remember Charlies the Barbers, my grandadad used to take me to have my haircur=t with him once a month when I was a kid

don't know , she died two years ago so not able to ask, i'll try my mum, see if she remembers

Family lived just round the corner in 80 Porthcawe Road, but know my aunt Cis (Florence Stevens, nee Humphries) lived there, not sure of the number tho

Census is available free at NA , but terminals can only be booked for an hour, and they are being quite strict on this at the moment. Also 1911 Census not available by subscription till later in the year.

Alan

Yes remember my nan 'red leading' the doorsteps every other day as well as sweeping outside every morning

Anyone heard from Falkor at all lately, noticed he hadn't posted for some time.

Sydenham wrote:Can someone tell me what a CMS is? I only know it from IBM's mainframe VM/CMS operating system where it stood/stands for Conversational Monitor System.

Thanks.

CMS = Content Management System

I was born in 80 Porhtcawe road, but don't remember thast much about it, My mother says it was on the corner of Porthcawe and Relinque, although I don't know which corner. But do know that by 1957 the upstairs was absolutetly uninhabitabe.

Alan

Great stuff. Love to see if anyone had any pics just prior to the street being demolished tho

Alan

Slightly off topic and older than a few decades, but what about this one: History of the 11th Service (Lewisham) Battalion, The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Written in 1933 by Captain R.O. Russell, M.C. single volume history that was published as a limited edition by the Lewisham Newspapers ...

Not really, It was ok to grow up in Grove Park, apart from Downham , which always seemed to be pretty violent. No the big houses were still there, I remember the house on the corner of Chinbrook Road/Baring Road, beiing used by a cult called the Children of God in the early 70s, but most of the ...

Falkor Thanks As we were moved to Grove Park in 1959, I don't really have many memories of Porthcawe Road, although I remember the High St as my grandfather used to take me back there on a regular basis. Seem to remeber a Barbershop called Mimi's?? and Spicers. My farther also worked at J A ...

Anyone know anything about the history of this road in Lower Sydenham. My family lived at number 80 from the early 1900s till 1959.

Alan