fosney - Oops! I'll straighten up the map
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- Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:23 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Rotherhithe New Road
- Replies: 44
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- Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:12 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Rotherhithe New Road
- Replies: 44
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Re: Rotherhithe New Road
Hi Fosney I was looking at your map showing the Rotherhithe New Road school access by Suffolk Grove. That’s the school I went to very briefly around 1950. It’s a pity there’s no pictures of it. I’ve been posting on Catlin Street cos I was brought up in one of the prefabs – no. 4 to be exact. It was ...
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:01 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: CATLIN STREET
- Replies: 10
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- Tue Oct 03, 2023 12:57 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: CATLIN STREET
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11246
Re: CATLIN STREET
Thanks Ray I’ve had a look at the Rotherhithe New Road topic and found fosney’s map showing the Rotherhithe New Road School in Suffolk Grove. That was the old Victorian School I was talking about and I was a pupil there. I notice a large area on that corner has been replaced with flats and a new sch...
- Sat Sep 30, 2023 3:08 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: CATLIN STREET
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11246
Re: CATLIN STREET
Hi Ray Good to hear from you. I don’t know the exact timeline but my dad, Bill, may have ‘handed over’ the café to Fred Overall and his son Brian about the time you used the café. I suspect he pulled out because he caught wind of the BRS depot directly opposite was closing down. They were big custom...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 6:27 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: CATLIN STREET
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11246
Re: CATLIN STREET
Hello Kiwi Well, you could have knocked me down with a feather. You got that image from the Prefab Museum. My dad owned the ‘canteen’ (aka Cain Hill Café). Some people associated it with the Cane Hill Asylum. I am pleased to report, it has nothing to do with that institution. Mind you, you had to be...