RIDDLESDOWN
THEN
A 1927 PICTURE OF AINSLEY BERRY SHAW, RAGGED GROVE AND MITCHLEY WOOD LOOKING
NORTH
A PICTURE OF THE AREA TAKEN AROUND 1930
In the foreground is the junction of Lower Barn Road, Buttermere
Gardens and Mitchley Avenue, with the Laing's site offices at left of
bottom-centre. At the lower-right is the golf-course.
CELEBRATING THE CORONATION ON THE GREEN IN 1953
THE DOWNS OVERLOOKING PURLEY, EARLY 1900's
Picture courtesy of Corporation of London
Keeper, Riddlesdown Common
KENLEY FROM RIDDLESDOWN,
EARLY 1900's
Picture courtesy of Corporation of London
Keeper, Riddlesdown Common
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH, 1927, SHOWING MITCHLEY WOOD ESTATE AREA AND
RIDDLESDOWN
Picture courtesy of Corporation of London
Keeper, Riddlesdown Common
THE QUARRY AT KENLEY, 1931
Picture courtesy of Corporation of London
Keeper, Riddlesdown Common
The following three
pictures were sent in by Leslie Oppitz, who lived in Riddlesdown from 1938
to 1956
A STEAM TRAIN AT RIDDLESDOWN STATION - 1967
(Photograph by John Bradshaw whose website
www.transport-of-delight.com
contains many interesting photographs of all kinds of railways
around the country and other parts of the world)
RIDDLESDOWN LOOKING OVER WHYTELEAFE
MITCHLEY HILL, 1938
THE
SHOPS IN LOWER BARN ROAD - the cover illustration from a 1936 Laings
Catalogue of their 'Purley Estate'
Below are some pages from the minutes of
a wartime Committee meeting....
a.jpg)
1956 RRA DANCE AT ST.EDMUND'S CHURCH HALL
This picture has been kindly donated by Norman Shepherd, a one-time stalwart
of the RRA Committee. The event was, Norman says, the first social event to
take place in the hall. The only person he can identify is the first vicar of
the church, Revd. R.A.Third, who is the one with the dog-collar. Can anyone
identify anyone else, or even themselves, almost 50 years on?
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O M E P A G E)
