I remember well the prefabs built just across from Winchcome rd and at the side of the woods that ran up Middleton rd, before they built them some German prisoners had a camp there doing some kind of work, we use to see them on the way home from school. One of our friends Violet Shadbolt nee Stewart got a prefab what a change they were all mod con even had a fridge which no one had in those days and a stainless steel sink, kitchen cupboards, it was like something out of an American film, even had a little freezer at the top of the fridge, and we would stop there on the way home from school and Vi would give us an ice cube sometimes made with orange juice, that was the first time we ever had an ice lolly magic moments you never forget.

Has anyone got Pic's of this camp during the war also were there Air Raid Shelters in Rose Hill Park? If not what was  Rose Hill Park used for during WW2?

I am sure the air raid shelter was opposite St.Helier Hospital on the green. As a child I remember asking my Mum what the huge mound was and she said thats where we all went when the sirens sounded. Wonderful memories of St.Helier in the 50'

Hi Phillip, As far as I remember there were no air raid shelters at Rose hill park - it just remained a park. Prior to the war it had gates which used to be closed at a certain time, until they were taken down for the metal.

I was brought up in a prefab in Tweeddale Green, off Tweeddale Road. My memory is of a wonderfully mixed community – as a child you don’t register these things, but we had a range of nationalities and backgrounds: a Polish wartime pilot to one side, an Egyptian (don't know what he did) to another, a middleclass English civil servant across the way. Anyone else remember these days?

Linda Byne. I remember the air raid shelters you speak of as a ladies n gents in the fifties.

My Pal Collin Werner lived in Middleton Gdns. others I knew in the prefabs were Barry David & Alan Dibble also Terry Hart I lived at the bottom of Middleton Rd not far from the old goat bridge which was a single rd bridge over the Wandle. Carshalton was a fantastic place to grow up