Recent content by Mark Nicholls

I have read through the whole thread and having been born in Greenfield House, Greenvale Avenue a few years after WW2, I didn't realize that there were bombs that landed on actual houses and buildings. All I knew was that my mother told me that the Germans dropped a couple of bombs in an attempt...

A really good way of viewing old maps of the UK is the Side by Side map site: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=5&lat=55.45420&lon=-2.95500&layers=10&right=BingHyb You can look at maps from several different time periods and get a very accurate idea of what specific places...

I have looked at old maps for the area around Horrell Road before it was built and there is no local place with Horrell in the name. It is possible that the name comes from someone involved in the development of the houses. I lived in Carnford Road in the late 1960s, which again doesn't have any...

I will have to look into that Nicholls family to see if there are any connections.

We were on the 3rd floor. Trevor was a bit older than me but I do remember the Slaters. I didn't know there was another Nicholls family around.

I lived in Greenfield House, Greenvale Avenue and had two older brothers, Dan and Andrew and a younger brother Ken at Mapledene.

I was at Central for 2 years in the late 60s. I remember Zombie taught chemistry and had bad dandruff.

Silvermere secondary school was converted to a teacher training college in the late 60s. When I was at Mapledene, I remember going round to the teacher training college to see their new video suite.