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……..for organising a very well attended public meeting at the Corner House on Monday.

The meeting was attended by several members and also non-members, notably from Ditton Road and Dennan Road, Neighbourhood Officer Christina Gardner, Highways Officer Karen Heslop, Neighbourhood Chair and Vice-Chair Yogan Yoganathan and Bob Steed, a PCSO, Cllr. Umesh Parekh and former cllr. myself.

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A ‘for sale’ notice has appeared outside no. 3 Langley Avenue and a letting agency notice is outside no. 1. Both properties feature in the Sunrise development site that was the cause of a very long Planning Appeal last year. We are mystified as to what is going on.

Does anyone know?

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Gradually working my way through all the back blog.

Good to see some other namrs I recognise – Pat Morris, who I bump into from time to time. I know he and Derek Yalden are still very much in touch.

Trev Birmingham who I knew quite well at the time although he was a couple of years my junior.

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Dave
email me at idcollins at uwclub.net

put the usual @ in for the ‘at’

We can continue the Latchmere thread there.

Ian

Dave
email me at idcollins at uwclub.net

put the usual @ in for the ‘at’

We can continue the Latchmere thread there.

Ian

Just seen the date of this blog. Sorry Nick thought this was something new

Newent House as a residetial home and day centre are very close to my heart. My mother spent the last two + years of her life there and the day centre was for her a joy. The staff at Newent were wonderful and under extreamly difficult circumstnces made her last years more than bearable. I am sure that many many people over the years have come to rely on the day centre for company and care so please do everything you can to keep this very important place open. If you need any help please contact me as I would be willing to do anything I can.

Thanks Ian-did Miss Aldridge affect a hair style with earphone like buns on each ear? If you look at my class of ’56 list you will see there are 8 from Latchmere-you are right -it’s an SCGS blog.

Dave – I am amazed that the Scout Hut is still there…Must have been rebuilt. It always gave the impression that it was near its life end when we were there. I was a 1st Kingston Hill Cub and the Canbury Residents Association used to hold social evenings there.

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Ian-Scout hut is still there and is HQ for 1st Kingston Hill Scouts. I remember Mr Branson telling us about when he was there with Form 4-how during the snow the whole class ganged up on him. I seemed to spend 2 years writing out tables because I kept getting on his wrong side-then I finished up in his class! He kept a piece of wood called the “home rule” which was applied to my backside on a number of occasions-once when trying to stop him coming into the classroom.
From Latchmere I remember Mr Pearson,Miss Audric,Mr Edmonds, Mr Price, Miss Madley ,Mrs Alexander.

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Hi Dave

Lived (& was born) in Wolsey Drive on the Tudor Estate. Left in Oct 1956 and went to live in Worcester Park. Was at Latchmere from 1946-1952. We got thrown out of the Scout Hut on the corner of Tudor Drive & Park Road, where Form 4 was situated, at Easter. So I and some others were shipped out to Richmond Road School for the Summer Term before going to Surbiton.

Ian -hi-if you went to Latchmere where did you live – I was in Cross Road near the barracks. Very sorry to hear about Keats -upon reflection -a nice man. I recognise many of the names you mention.
General call — any one know what happened to John Oborn, I guess 1950 -1958 . Decent bloke who ran the Christian Union and read great stories at his lunchtime meetings.

Well hello fellow Old Surbs! I did find this site some years ago but few of my fellow pupils had then taken up the challenge. My term of endurance was Sep 1952 – Dec 1957. AG Willis was the head until Christmas 1952, after which we had to endure the ministrations of the disasterous Doig. However I do look back on my 5+ years at SCGS quite fondly and, despite the efforts of a few of the masters, consider I had a very good education; especially by today’s standards.

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