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Blimey! The amount of times I've drank from that water fountain as a kid, gotta be around fifty years ago! Thanks for sharing and refreshing some long forgotten childhood memories. 😎

times were better when the water fountain was working

Bloody hell, what has happened to my beloved thornton heath??? Trumble gardens looks like a dump now… and where has the prince of wales gone? Beautiful old pub knocked down? My gtandparents will be turning in their graves. Thnx for filming this - and nice that u walked up woodville road. 3 generations of my family lived on that street

I miss Thornton Heath... Had some good times growing up there.. shame its gone downhill 😢

Wow, the old gardeners that used to keep Trumble Gardens in immaculate condition would be turning in their graves. 😥 Even in my childhood years back in the 70's i was always impressed at how well kept the gardens used to be. Shrubs neatly trimmed, rose gardens, flower beds and perfect lawns. Just looks so run down now. What I did spot of interest were those large cylindrical planters that were on the left just when you walked into the children's play park at 2:48. Could they be all that is left of the original play equipment that used to be in the play park? Anyone that remembers Trumble Gardens from the 70's will remember the short sections of concrete pipe that used to form part of the play equipment. I wonder if those planters are the same bits of pipe? And I have to admit I am very surprised to see the old drinking fountain is still there, must have gulped down gallons of water from that thing when I was a kid. I remember that had the same style drinking fountains at my old Junior school - Elmwood. And of course, most kids that grew up in Thornton Heath years ago will remember the walk down those steps to the children's section of the library. I was often down there, I grew up in Frant Road, so not too far for me to get there. I have great memories of Thornton Heath, was a fantastic place to grow up.

I used to go to that library when I was a kid, used to play in Trumble Gardens as well, thanks for the memories. I also remember the fire station next to the library, they knocked it down to build the block of flats there. 🤓 (Who remembers Towns Toytown toy shop would have been on the right at 11:11? They had another store just up Whitehorse Lane as well).

Used to live in Penshurst Road in the early 70s , remember that drinking fountain well , those concrete planters used to be some of the play equipment in the playground , you used to crawl through them ! Anyone remember ‘Auntie Ethel’ the lollipop lady at the zebra crossing ?

I lived at Kenmare Road until 1969. Loved living in Thornton Heath

Tarrntan Eeaf! Miss my curry goat rice n pea Good place to get stabbed as a young man, Trubble Park too at 3am lol don't go down the backstreets unless you live there Sitting on the 250 one day 18 years ago it got stopped at pond for a bloody machine gun shootout... Peace be to my ends x

THANK YOU, whoever you are who took the time to wander with camera through these streets where I was born (1944) and bring up. Interesting to see what changes and what stays the same….. Recognising most of the road signs along the way… but now curious to know the name of that final road was after you turned off Natal !

I. Love My local. 💋😇👄. ✔.

You sneaky bugger, that cameras pretty low down🤣🤣🤣😉.

Lived T.H. in 1986 and I'm saddened to see that so many of its pubs have closed.

I grew up in thornton heath in the 90s. lived on Gonville Road went to gonville primary school. Miss this area.

I remember going to the childrens library for book trial!

Used to take my little boy to that very kids' library when we lived in Grange Park Road, up to December 2000

[I’m actually Philip Skelton, not Linda Fleishman who’s my other half]. Anyone remember us Skelton’s from Lakehall Gardens?

Love from Pakistan 💕

Used to live at 219 Galpins Rd.

Anyone go so far back as to remember Vernum’s wood shop?…. (1940-50s)

You can't get an area more Jamaican than Thornton Heath. closest competitors from Harlesden, Brixton and Tottenham 🤣🤣