[Clifton]

20 hours ago, Jill Sparrow said:

Anth, do you recall the Hirst family who lived in Woodbridge Avenue? I know CT recalls them. Raymond, Kathleen and their two sons, Timothy and Nicholas. Ray drove an Esso tanker.

 

Kathleen was my mum's childhood friend and we lived next door to Kathleen's mother for many years.

Hi Jill,
No I don't remember the Hirsts. i remember the Wadsleys (Colin sadly died), the Chawners, and sell as the Johnsons and Underwoods. We moved to Clifton when I was four, in 1954. I left Fairham in 1968 to go to college and never   really lived there again. We lived on Brinkhill, between Woodbridge and Shelley Ave.

[Clifton]

20 hours ago, Jill Sparrow said:

Anth, do you recall the Hirst family who lived in Woodbridge Avenue? I know CT recalls them. Raymond, Kathleen and their two sons, Timothy and Nicholas. Ray drove an Esso tanker.

 

Kathleen was my mum's childhood friend and we lived next door to Kathleen's mother for many years.

21 hours ago, Cliff Ton said:

 

I'm a few years younger than you and I don't think I knew you at the time, but might've been aware of your name. Those names you mention don't ring any bells; probably because they were a generation older than me. Are you on Facebook ?

 

 

 

Ayup Cliff, (am slummin' it)
Yes, I'm on Facebook, under my name, "Anthony Ginn."

[Clifton]

On 4/13/2012 at 10:36 AM, Cliff Ton said:

VWGolf, I'm intrigued. You obviously lived in that area....and so did I. Where were you?

I remember all those shops you have mentioned and I could still name them all. I won't bother at the moment because it might bore everyone else.

We lived on Woodbridge Avenue.

Cliff, if you lived on Woodbridge maybe you knew Raymond Johnson, who lived at the Brinkhill end, or Robert Underwood, who lived down the other end. There was also a kid who lived in the middle, who was crazy about Subuteo soccer. He created a whole division and had teams playing each other for the season. He may have been called "Stach'".  Someone told me he even did transfers. We used to skate down Woodbrige on our pram wheel trollies, on our way round the block, via Shelley Avenue. How eco-friendly is that?

[Clifton]

9 minutes ago, Cliff Ton said:

...and I went to the two Greencroft schools.

 

 

What years were you there Cliff?

 

[Clifton]

On 1/30/2009 at 4:25 PM, ray316 said:

Hi danny, the schools you mention at the bottom of sunninghill drive because there was two on the same grounds was greencroft primary and the other was brinkhill primary. They have now combined both schools and it is now called dovecote primary..

There were three schools at the bottom of Sunninghill, Greencroft Infants, Brinkhill Juniors and Greencroft Juniors. I went to all three.