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Post by markf on Dec 15, 2012 20:09:59 GMT
That plan was dropped over a dispute involving a small stretch of land owned (& still is, I think) by the Water Board. It is next to the closest warehouse to the London Road now & is (with some stretching of the imagination) a pond. Then Tesco came along & the whole area was re-developed. My house looks over the IO centre & even though there was wanton vandalsim I would still prefer the overgrown wildeness the area had become to what is there now. It was quite green in the summer.
I still don't think 50% off the IO centre has been filled having opened right at the start of the financial collapse of the UK & the World in general.
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Post by toronto on Dec 16, 2012 18:08:43 GMT
Re Timbos blog. My uncle and aunt also lived at the end of Sorrento road "just before the bend" They had an alleyway alongside thier house which ran through to Stayton road. Thier surname was Devereaux and they like my family were irish. After the bend the road was called Pylbrook. From Pylbrook there was another alley that ran through to the bus station. It was always full of slugs and snails. I do remember some of the family names from Sorrento road. Perhaps they include some of your relatives. Prouse, Church, Rains, Blackman Walker and Haines spring to mind. Lets not also forget Mr Hills shop at the junction of The two roads..........Down memory lane
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Post by oohaah on Dec 16, 2012 21:10:03 GMT
I still don't think 50% off the IO centre You can still get 50% off at the IO centre? Why has nobody told me this? I'm still waiting to get 20% off at B&Q on pensioner Wednesday. |
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Post by sallycat on Dec 17, 2012 13:06:31 GMT
My toddler photo's were taken on Sutton green, I remember there was a fete on there every summer. Also remember Pigs Alley, that was my route to Westbourne. I keep forgetting we went to the same school! I remember those fetes too - my mum occasionally ran a stall there. My toddler photo's were taken on Sutton green, I remember there was a fete on there every summer. Also remember Pigs Alley, that was my route to Westbourne. Pigs Alley? I am actually struggling to recall Westbourne, a school? What was it called before? Westbourne has always been Westbourne as far as I know. It isn't that old, compared to a lot of schools. I'm not entirely surprised if you didn't know about it - it's kind of hidden down Anton Crescent, off Collingwood Road (next to Hallmead Day Centre). I used to play near Kimpton Park when I was a kid - for some reason I found the whole area kind of creepy. A friend and I used to dare each other to see how far we could get down one of the tunnels that ran into the brook. Silly! |
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Post by fluffy rascal on Dec 17, 2012 13:30:30 GMT
Westbourne Juniors was quite a newly built school when I went there, built late 70's I think, I went to Westbourne infants as well which was in the Crown Road/Wilcox road area. That one was known as Crown Road school then briefly Westbourne Infants before it was demolished.
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Post by exiledinandover on Dec 17, 2012 18:19:41 GMT
West bourne was built when the town was redelvoped.to take over from the schools in Crown rd and Wilcox rd.They were demolised for the new road to come through.
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Post by markf on Dec 17, 2012 19:07:21 GMT
Not sure what it is called now but "Kimpton Park" is actually or was Hamilton Avenue Rec.
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Post by fluffy rascal on Dec 18, 2012 9:20:52 GMT
West bourne was built when the town was redelvoped.to take over from the schools in Crown rd and Wilcox rd.They were demolised for the new road to come through. They were demolished after that, the school was where the flats on the corner of St Nicholas Way and Crown Road are now. I remember the school being 100 years old when I was there around '79 - '80, was demolished a few years later. |
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