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Johnshort   
Added: 7 Oct 2017 21:07 GMT   

Hurley Road, SE11
There were stables in the road mid way - also Danny reading had a coal delivery lorry.

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Added: 17 Dec 2023 21:57 GMT   

Hurley Road, SE11
I remember Danny reading we lived opposite him at number 15 he used to give us rides in his lorry and a bottle of cola if he was carrying it on the lorry x


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GrahamClayton   
Added: 10 Oct 2024 19:42 GMT   

Armed guard during 1919 civil unrest
During the 1919 civil unrest, a company of soldiers guarded the power station day and night - if it was forced to close down, a large part of London’s transport system would be inoperable.

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Mark G   
Added: 6 Oct 2024 15:08 GMT   

Change of Road Name to SARK WALK
All of the terraced slum housing on JERSEY ROAD was demolished and the area rebuilt with modern housing in the late 1940’s, early 1950’s. Subsequently, the road was renamed SARK WALK.

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B Willmot   
Added: 24 Sep 2024 00:39 GMT   

King Charles Street, SW1A
My Great Grandfather (Joseph William Willmot) started school here in Charles St - Penley’s College in 1857.

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roy elsom   
Added: 20 Sep 2024 16:44 GMT   

Parkers Row, SE1
In the 1841 a relative of my wife, family name Reeves lived in Parker’s Row

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BB   
Added: 19 Sep 2024 12:41 GMT   

Saunders Street, SE11
My grandfather (and presumably my father, uncles and aunts) all lived in 3 Saunders Street. I’m slowly researching my Family Tree. Does anyone know when this street was demolished, what were the properties like (I’m assuming extremely poor). My grandfather’s surname was HILKIN.

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James   
Added: 18 Sep 2024 12:55 GMT   

Southwark
Does anyone know how this street came to be named Leyden Street? I can only find a couple of Leyden Streets in Britain, one in Glasgow in Scotland and one here

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Roger Purcell   
Added: 14 Sep 2024 17:46 GMT   

Verdant Lane, SE6 (1911 - 1936)
My great grandfather Joseph Henry Purcell moved into 140 Verdant Lane with his family circa 1910/11. He had recently retired from working in a senior role for the Borough Market Trust. It would have been a brand new terraced house at the time. He died there in 1916, but my great grandmother Emma continued to live there until her death in 1936.

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Anonymous   
Added: 29 Aug 2024 13:22 GMT   

Wartime
My late Aunt lived in Tidal Basin during the war. Their family name was Brandon. She told a story of a schoolboy killed on the dock railway when walking to school. Apparently it was common for the kids to walk along the busy tracks serving the docks.

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