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fosney - Oops! I'll straighten up the map

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 ...

Ray - I made a mess of adding the attachment. I'll try again.

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...

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...

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...