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The Tavern Football Team
The Tavern Football Team
Sunday football
Winchcombe School Song
Winchcombe School Song
Do you remember it?
Golden Days
Golden Days
Photos from the 1960s
Coronation Party
Coronation Party
The ladies of St. Benets Grove
Happy Times on St. Helier
Happy Times on St. Helier
Please add your comments
His Lucky Day!
His Lucky Day!
Roadworker discovers treasure
Memories of St. Helier
Memories of St. Helier
Moved there in 1939
Local History at The Circle Library
Local History at The Circle Library
Men of the Wrythe
The Hub of the Estate - the Gaumont
The Hub of the Estate - the Gaumont
Entering a dream world
The Cinema
The Cinema
I remember being in the one and sixes..
Gunners the Butchers
Gunners the Butchers
Christmas 1950
Drain Clearing
Drain Clearing
A three-day job
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The Tyre Dump Fire
The Tyre Dump Fire
The black stuff was coming down for weeks
At that time I was living in Sherbourne Crescent, and a gang of us kids went...
By Ted Blowers
On 11/05/2012
Tower Cottage, Culvers Avenue
Tower Cottage, Culvers Avenue
A hidden delight
The Spanish House was the name given to 'The Culvers' for precisely the...
By Bob Steel
On 10/05/2012
Boxing
Boxing
A popular pastime on St. Helier
Donald, I knew all the family as I lived in Muchelney Road where they lived....
By John Maslin
On 10/05/2012
Scouting in St. Helier
Scouting in St. Helier
It's a long way from Reigate!
2nd Morden Scouts was fed by two cubs troops - one at Methodist Church, the...
By Ian Pearson
On 25/04/2012
School Days
School Days
The happiest days of your life?
I attended Tweedale School from 1947. My teacher was Miss Woods and the...
By Victor Calthorpe
On 06/04/2012
Tower Cottage, Culvers Avenue
Tower Cottage, Culvers Avenue
A hidden delight
There is a tree in Culvers Retreat which has bark that looks like cork, so...
By John Wiggins
On 05/04/2012
Happy Days At St.Helier Hospital
Happy Days At St.Helier Hospital
A Nurse's tale
I started my nursing training at St Helier hospital in 1948..I would like to...
By Doreen Sherwell
On 29/03/2012
Tower Cottage, Culvers Avenue
Tower Cottage, Culvers Avenue
A hidden delight
I lived on the St Helier estate from 1944. A friend of mine lived near Culvers...
By Irene McIlraith
On 29/03/2012
The Circle
The Circle
A thriving little community
We lived at 492 Middleton Road, between Peterborough and Shrewsbury Roads. Mum...
By Debbie Mabbutt (nee Woolley)
On 29/03/2012
Let It Snow
Let It Snow
Especially 1947!
I was 8 years old in 1947 and was sent along with an adult aunt with a pram to...
By Irene Cooper
On 24/03/2012
Scouting in St. Helier
Scouting in St. Helier
It's a long way from Reigate!
Just discovered this website and particularly the scouting section. My parents...
By Derek Gooch
On 24/03/2012
The Library
The Library
It was like another world you could go into ...
About 70 years ago the library was a wooden hut which was at the end of...
By Irene Cooper
On 24/03/2012
 

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