@MarlynHutchison the person who uploaded the photo called it "the corner of Stainforth Road" not top. In some instances, I can only go by the source - I am too young to remember.
Most people wouldn't know there were public toilets in the middle of the road at Clapham junction oppersite arding and Hobbs I was surprised to see a photo of them
Battersea unreckonisable now days even Clapham junction arding and Hobbs gone princes head gone revisited shillington st where I was born the old pub the Chatham now offices I remember the charabangs going to the seaside and us kids would wait for the scramble when the men would throw out money for us to pick up
Me and my sister Carol and all the girls outside nottorianis with all the junction boys and going to the dances at Battersea town hall and Monday night's at the locano
Battersea is unrecognizable now Harding and Hobbs gone I used to go and see father Christmas there and nobody seems to remember the toilets in the middle of the road opposite there
10:02 Hi ya linda just wanted to say thanks for all your lovely old films about you and Battersea l was born there and knew all the the lads in your films knew Coco l lived in the same road has him , home road thank again its a fantastic achievement collecting all that old film
Only just found your channel such amazing work. Memories flooding back born and brought up in Battersea I was actually born No 28 Taybridge road in 1971 and we moved to Garfield road only a stones throw just up from the community centre across the road from the Beaufoy arms on lavender hill. Big family so we were lucky to be in a council house. Like more or less everyone I remember had to move away simply could not afford to live there come the 90s boom and bust period. Now in Cornwall what a change will have to pop back some day and walk around Battersea 👍
I loved that picture of the York tavern we lived on the estate behind it in salt burn house in the seventies and I remember Francine lyman and Nancy lyman also the corrugated iron next door where there was a bomb site and an adventure playground ,I also remember the sweeney being filmed in that road and they crashed the car through some fake corrugated iron ,all the kids were up on the third floor balcony watching .thanks great photo
Linda, thank you so much for posting this - I know it was some time ago that you did so! I so remember Maggie Brown's pie and mash shop. My aunt, Margaret Gurney was always in there. She loves pie and mash! If I remember rightly, it was closed down twice for health reasons - lol. I went to school with a kid called Paul Lye. Was he a relation? I seem to remember that Paul was working on the Big Dipper in the fun fair when they had the accident. I may be wrong!
Thank you. I know a lot of the Gurney family ... Georgina lived op us in Rowditch Lane also bros David John and Eddie, we didn't see my dad's family much but do have a cousin Paul Lye 😘
Fabulous video, Linda - thank you. It brought back so many memories. Particularly of Kings Road. Me and my mates used to walk along there in the evenings then, like you, we would just walk across Albert or Battersea Bridge home. We too would go to the Bird's Nest sometimes!
Hi Linda I really like your channel and watch it quite a bit. It always brings a tear to my eye with the memory of the days I lived in Battersea. I was born on 1962 and used to live in Abercrombie Street with mum and dad and my grandfather. This was the same house that my dad lived in as a boy and young man. I remember playing on the open spaces where houses used to be that were bombed during the war and then playing on the derelict houses waiting to be demolished. Going to Battersea Park Easter Parade and the fun fare. Shopping on Saturday in Northcott Road with my mum dad and aunty who lived in Salcott Road. Would like to meet you and talk about the days as a kid in Battersea, there is do much I could talk about.
Hi Linda..I’ve lived in Wandsworth for 52 years am 71 but was brought up in Blackpool …great times..children played on the streets as few had cars in our street and we used to go and buy Lucky bags and take lemonade bottles back to received three pence…my mother said come home when it gets dark..the girls would play hopscotch and the boys football..children were much more naive in those days without the internet…lucky to see any kids out on the streets today here in Wandsworth!!!
Wow this is my life here I was born in 1962 lived on Petergate Rd right near the York tavern and used to play with the landlords son and had sleepovers at that pub upstairs at the weekends probably when you was downstairs partying. But what’s amazing is that I went into hairdressing as well and worked on the kings road as well as other places and I used to go drinking down there but in the Chelsea potter or another one over the road and me mum took us to Clapham Junction shopping or the Arndale so thanks for the memories.
Hello. I mentioned we moved to Battersea 1968. It was tough. Mum and dad parted 1964 we never saw him again. I was a pupil at Wandsworth Comprehensive in Southfields. (1968-73) One of my classmates was Ainsley Harriot. I knew a few kids who lived on the Ethelburga Estate. And the Surrey Lane Estate. By 1973. I frequently visited boozers and the Chelsea Birds Nest and Chelsea Drugstore.
Thank you for this treasure trove of memories... I, with my family, lived in Sporle Court - half way up and facing Gartens Glucose and the candle factory, with outstanding views of the river and the helicopters coming in to land at the heliport. Gordon's Gin with the smell of Juniper Berries just a little further along. We moved to 39 Rowena Crescent (not its original name!) in 1975 and were there til 1982-ish?? We rented from Wandsworth Council and under Margaret Thatchers Right to Buy scheme we were offered No. 39 for 18,000 Pounds. We couldn't afford the mortgage at the time. Today No. 39 has been sold and resold a number of times. The last time it went for around £900,000. That's right - nearly a Million Pounds. I suppose this is why Battersea has the nickname of South Chelsea! Where am I now at the new Pensionable Ave of 66 years old?? Why, I am residing in a homeless shelter in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, for single people. It is run by Julian House, a charity based in Bath. And no, I am not an alcoholic or drug addict. Just not very well.
Thank you. Yes, my house in Harbut Road purchased for £6,000 we converted into two flats we sold top flat for £82,000 in 1986... now £700 000. If only we held on to them lol.
Yet another marvellous video. I've shed a tear this afternoon looking at such nostalgia. I was brought up in Westbridge Road, opposite The Stag pub, with The Farnborough Arms on the next corner. My happiest days were spent in Battersea Funfair - always a special treat on a birthday - a wander on the Tree Walk, a visit to the Devil's Grotto and course, gazing in wonder at The Guinness Clock. Such lovely innocent times.
Wow just found this, so many memories i did'nt know I had, born in 1954 home was St Johns Hill, went to Plough Road infants and even sat on Arding and Hobbs santa's knee, special treats to Battersea park, tonsils out at Bollingbrook (lashings of ice cream). I believe my parents married at St Peters, saturday morning pictures at the Granada (Yeah Zorro) went on to junior school in Tooting and the Elliott on Putney Heath. Worked in my Grandads shop on Fulham Broadway till i joined the Royal Navy in 71 then never returned to London to live. Now in Weymouth. Very lovely video.
Great posting Linda, brings back lots of memories, especially Plough Road. My grandad, Cecil Goldsmith ran a butchers shop at No. 39 pre and post war. My mum, Dulcie, always spoke fondly of Schoolings, the bakers. She went to school with Reggie. Schooling. Thanks again.
Thank you, some lovely memories there. With my parents and brother we stayed many times in a caravan at Little Clacton. A special way of getting there on The Queen of the Channel from Tower Pier, London via Southend pier then for latter years in dads car. In 1954 I won the junior talent contest at the Pavilion when Ronnie Mills and his orchestra had their show. Afterwards a lovely afternoon tea at Cordys almost opposite the pier. Some years later a couple of holidays at Butlins with my friend on our NSU Quickly mopeds. Clacton was our absolute favourite.
I was'nt born in Battersea, but seeing all these photo's of England make's me feel very nostalgic. I was born in Clacton - On - sea, which I suppose is'nt far away.
What a great photo of the kids jumping off Battersea Bridge…I was born in 1952 and remember just walking around with about 9 or ten other boys wandering and climbing often carrying a stick..so,sad to,see no kids,out playing in the streets today
This video is a great Nostalgia trip. I was born in Clacton but left it in 1940 when the town was evacuated for WW2. We returned in 1945 and I attended Colchester Tech. (A perfect school for me as it laid a foundation for a career in engineering.) Left in 1948 for that career at various places ending up in the USA
