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by limeygent
14 Jan 2012 14:30
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Found: A Crystal Palace Season Ticket in Forest Hill
Replies: 3
Views: 3109

Re: Found: A Crystal Palace Season Ticket in Forest Hill

Should've sold it and bought a Charlton season ticket.
by limeygent
6 Jan 2012 20:50
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Bell Green, Dillwyn Rd in the 60's
Replies: 30
Views: 42544

Re: Bell Green, Dillwyn Rd in the 60's

The coal merchant was definitely "Sawyer's", and there was a grocery store called "Clarks", I thought was at the end of Miall road, it was right opposite the toilets. I was about five at the time, so my geography might not be accurate, but I remember the names, Mr. Sawyer used to...
by limeygent
5 Jan 2012 23:18
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Bell Green, Dillwyn Rd in the 60's
Replies: 30
Views: 42544

Re: Bell Green, Dillwyn Rd in the 60's

Anyone else remember the coal merchant, "Sawyer"s", right there at Bell Green. He used a horse and cart to deliver the coal in the 50s. The horse was called "Old Bill".
by limeygent
1 Jan 2012 14:12
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: 1950's Kilmorie Annex/Kelvin Grove School??
Replies: 2
Views: 2916

Re: 1950's Kilmorie Annex/Kelvin Grove School??

My sister had nothing to add. There's a good shot of the building on "Google Street View".
by limeygent
31 Dec 2011 01:19
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Old Ma Wandy...
Replies: 3
Views: 3284

Re: Old Ma Wandy...

Old Ma Wandy had a little electrical appliance shop on Dartmouth Road, close to Kirkdale. The kids thought that she was a witch. All the kids used to bang on the door of the shop and run away, she'd come out yelling and shaking her fist. Much fun on the way to and from primary school. She was famous...
by limeygent
30 Dec 2011 13:14
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Old Ma Wandy...
Replies: 3
Views: 3284

Re: Old Ma Wandy...

Never took a picture, was always running away.....
by limeygent
29 Dec 2011 02:16
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Old Ma Wandy...
Replies: 3
Views: 3284

Old Ma Wandy...

Anyone remember her?
by limeygent
23 Dec 2011 00:56
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: 1950's Kilmorie Annex/Kelvin Grove School??
Replies: 2
Views: 2916

Re: 1950's Kilmorie Annex/Kelvin Grove School??

I attended Kelvin Grove School in the 50s. Kilmorie was the school on Kirkdale, in front of the main Kelvin Grove building. As far as we knew at the time, the two schools were totally separate entities, there was an iron fence and wall in between, there was no connection between the two. There was a...