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I know this is a few years late, but I have just come across this photo of the Chapel.

My husband was born at 24, George Arthur Road and I lived in the next road up Reginald Road.

They would probably have served me, I lived opposite in Reginald Road, I bought my pram and high chair and playpen from McGauleys.

super photos, I have not seen these before. Here is a school photo of me in the uniform of that time

Hello Betty, I was at Cropwood in the fifties and I also hated it, I had lovely long hair and Ms Urquart said it had to be cut, I cried and said I would plait it, but she said no and I had the basin cut, it was awful, things they got away with then certainly wouldn’t be allowed today.

Hi Susan, I think we left Howe Street about 1952, I don’t remember a cafe, I went to Bishop Ryder school for a short while.

I remember the Carwadines and Irene and Charlie Bush who had the little shop, I lived at 1/23 Howe Street and my grandparents lived in Curzon Street.

Our surname was Forrester and my grandparents name was Millichamp they lived in Curzon Street.

I also lived in Howe Street when I was little, we left there about 1952, I don’t remember the thunderbolt, but remember the murder by a neighbour that backed onto our house.

I lived at number 11, Reginald Road in the maisonettes.

I was at Cropwood in the fifties, I hated my time there, Miss Urquhart was the headmistress, things they got away with then would not be allowed now. If anyone is interested there is a book you can get out of the library called A Breath of Fresh Air, it is all about the open air schools that...

Here is a photo of Blackwell Convalescent home

Sorry I don’t, it was a back to back and they were on the front of Curzon Street, right hand side of an entry, about four doors down from George’s cafe.

Mike when I lived in Howe Street and my grandparents in Curzon Street as children we used to play on what was called a bomb peck, that is houses that were bombed, that would have been I imagine where the tobacconists shop would have been.

Here is a photo of the Coronation party in Curzon Street, my nan’s window is behind where everyone is standing.

As far as I know all the houses had one family in them, it was one room downstairs with a ‘scullery” at the top of the stairs to the cellar, one bedroom and one attic. I lived in Howe Street in a back to back that was identical, my parents had the bedroom and my brother and I shared the attic room.

Here is a photo of Curzon Street, my grandparents lived just before where the little boy is.

It was me that was looking for the photograph of that pub, I understood it to be called the Railway Hotel and was for the people arriving at the station opposite, I lived as a little girl in Howe Street and my grandparents lived in Curzon Street, I can picture it now with my Nan sitting in the...

If you go to the search facility on this site and type in Raymond Road you will see a few posts about this Road.

I also lived in the maisonettes at number 11.