Genealogy Chat

LadyKira, just read your post re walking from Woolwich Ferry to Hornfair Park and it brought back loads of memories.

I lived on Prince Henry Road which ran the length of the Park. I remember swimming in the Lido. In fact on warm summer days (yes, we had them then!) I would go off in the morning with 3d and a sarnie and spend all day there. Our parents never worried about us being on our own.

I used to do the walk you mention in reverse but not as far as the Ferry, just to a friend's house just beyond Maryon Park. I wonder if all those parks are still there or if they have been built over.

Yes they are still there.
The lido reopened a few years ago but appears to have closed again now.
Maryon Wilson still has the animals.
And the Hornfair is still held in Charlton House.

We went to an exhibition at Charlton House this week about the Charlton Parks and the historical relationship of the Parks with the House.

We saw some photographs of the lido around the sixties.

I know Prince Henry Road. Our business is on Charlton Road. I nad not realised what a strong connection my family has in the area.

I lived in Plumstead and went to school there before moving to Catford.

Another coincidence - I also went to school in Plumstead - King's Warren on Plumstead Common.

When I went I was the second year intake of the new Plumstead Manor School formed by the merger of Kings Warren, Waverley and Church Manorway. schools. My aunt went whilst it was still Kings Warren.

We may have had the same teachers as some were there for years like Miss Hunt, Catherine Dyer, Miss Cole and Miss Saville.

They are doing a lot of building work there now.