Riddlesdown Then

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'

Above are some pages from the minutes of a wartime Committee meeting....

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?