This week I have received a picture typical of the 1950s. Taken in the coal yard at the old Fleetville sidings – now Coach Mews – it shows two Kendall's coal lorries, having picked up a new load for delivery. Kendall's took over the coal business from Stanton's, whose family had a wood and coal business in Castle Road. Many thanks to Steve Kendall for letting us recall those days, when children were often asked to "count the bags in" and to "go into the road and pick up any dropped lumps." A photo of Kendall's shop in Bycullah Terrace appeared recently on the front page of the website and is now on the photo library page.
Thanks also to Janet Lang who is now able to let us see once again, not only the pub sign for the Bunch of Cherries public house at Oaklands, but also a drawing of the first building. This was occupied in 1949 when the licence was first granted, but at a time when no licences were available to erect permanent structures. Use was made of former builders' huts, believed to be already on site from unfinished pre-war house-building activities. The huts remained in service until the 1960s when the present house was put up by owners, Whitbread.
It is rare to find a group photograph with all of the names of those appearing listed on the reverse. Fortunately Janet had undertaken that task as soon as she received a copy of the picture in 1961. If you were in Oakwood School's top class of 1961/2, and were taught by Mr David Sidnell, then visit the School Groups 2 page of the website. You will only be disappointed if you were absent on that day!
It seemed about time to give some coverage to a former hamlet known as Camp Hill. First identified on a map in 1766 with a single house, it became home to an increasing number of families, initially associated with farming and domestic occupations; and then, from the start of the twentieth century, to industries setting up nearby, including the rubber works, electricity works and printing works. Work places also came to the hamlet, although all no longer exist. Today there are a number of modern office and apartment buildings near the top of the hill, but it all seemed to begin with a single home, known as Camp House. There is now a new page on the website called Camp Hill; see the menu list on the righthand side of the Welcome page.
This week I have received a picture typical of the 1950s. Taken in the coal yard at the old Fleetville sidings – now Coach Mews – it shows two Kendall's coal lorries, having picked up a new load for delivery. Kendall's took over the coal business from Stanton's, whose family had a wood and coal business in Castle Road. Many thanks to Steve Kendall for letting us recall those days, when children were often asked to "count the bags in" and to "go into the road and pick up any dropped lumps." A photo of Kendall's shop in Bycullah Terrace appeared recently on the front page of the website and is now on the photo library page.
Thanks also to Janet Lang who is now able to let us see once again, not only the pub sign for the Bunch of Cherries public house at Oaklands, but also a drawing of the first building. This was occupied in 1949 when the licence was first granted, but at a time when no licences were available to erect permanent structures. Use was made of former builders' huts, believed to be already on site from unfinished pre-war house-building activities. The huts remained in service until the 1960s when the present house was put up by owners, Whitbread.
It is rare to find a group photograph with all of the names of those appearing listed on the reverse. Fortunately Janet had undertaken that task as soon as she received a copy of the picture in 1961. If you were in Oakwood School's top class of 1961/2, and were taught by Mr David Sidnell, then visit the School Groups 2 page of the website. You will only be disappointed if you were absent on that day!
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