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      Sazzie reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Varna Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
      Not many of the outside photos are Varna Road, but more the other side of the Rea. The indoor ones may well have been.
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      Sazzie reacted to wam's post in the thread Varna Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
      A few years back there was an exhibition of photgraphs at a local gallery of pictures taken by an American student centred on one woman...
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      Sazzie reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Varna Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
      It does not exist now. In the 1950s and 60s it gained a reputation as a red light district, and before that I think many of the largish...
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      Sazzie reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Flint Green Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
      That was the conclusion I came to. I thought the post 26 implied it was 44 referred to not 42.
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      Sazzie reacted to localmike's post in the thread Flint Green Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
      The website says that Sherbourne House is number 42, and not that it is 44.
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      Sazzie reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Flint Green Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
      I think it might have been 42 which was called Sherbourne House. 1908 directory lists last 2 houses in Flint Green Road as In later...
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      Sazzie reacted to devonjim's post in the thread Flint Green Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
      Just found this thread I lived nearby on and off from 1940-1970, there's a mention of 44, Flint Green in Acock's Green History site...
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      Sazzie reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Flint Green Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
      No 44 is not listed in any of the wartime or immediate post war directoies. I know that maps of the period which were generally...
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      Sazzie reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Flint Green Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
      The 1946 directory and 1950s maps do not show any indication of any army barracks,
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      Sazzie replied to the thread Flint Green Road.
      I know it was soon after D Day., when everybody in 44 celebrated by burning an effigy of Hitler and I had my first eclair!
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      Sazzie replied to the thread Flint Green Road.
      Thank you. Really appreciate this
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      Sazzie replied to the thread Flint Green Road.
      Thank you. Really appreciate that
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      Sazzie replied to the thread Flint Green Road.
      That is interesting. I am going to contact an old school friend who might be able to contribute to this My parents were there near the...
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      Sazzie replied to the thread Flint Green Road.
      That is interesting. I am going to contact an old school friend who might be able to contribute to this. She lives in Australia, so it...
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      Sazzie reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Flint Green Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
      1953…There was a barracks in Stockfield Road…
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