This website is dedicated to the past times of Deptford. If you have any stranger-than-fiction stories about Deptford, I would welcome your input. This may include stories of people and places, those still here or long gone, characters, the war years, ghost stories and haunted places, ancient buildings and bygone memories, long forgotten. Please contact me with your stories axelgs1@yahoo.co.uk
Wednesday, February 19
Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 17, 4 March 1941
Sorry to cut in on current talks, but I've just come across a post from March 2014 re. Nissen Huts in Deptford. I lived in one in Croft street (number 12), cannot find anywhere to post in response to it. Valerie.
here's the post:-
"ellams said...
does anyone remember croft street off evelyn street in the 50s . When we moved to London and remember well the Nissan huts , any pictures ? 4 March 2014 at 11:51"
Hi I lived directly behind Deptford police station from 1964-9 in Napier Street. It's all gone now and it's a a smaller cul-de-sac called Napier Close. I wonder if anyone might have some pics of that area from the 50s or 60s? We were the last family to move in that street.
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Sorry to cut in on current talks, but I've just come across a post from March 2014 re. Nissen Huts in Deptford.
ReplyDeleteI lived in one in Croft street (number 12), cannot find anywhere to post in response to it. Valerie.
here's the post:-
"ellams said...
does anyone remember croft street off evelyn street
in the 50s . When we moved to London and remember well the Nissan huts , any pictures ?
4 March 2014 at 11:51"
I LIVED AT NUMBER 2 . I REMEMBER A YOUNG GIRL WHO DONE BALLET .WHO HAD A NICE MUM . PETER
ReplyDeleteI contacted lewisham local history dept about croft st and they told me you had replied to my post . Ellams family at no2
ReplyDeletehow on earth do I contact Valerie . my neighbour 60 years ago
ReplyDeleteface book. ice cream
ReplyDeletefamily history of growing up in deptford
ReplyDeleteHi I lived directly behind Deptford police station from 1964-9 in Napier Street. It's all gone now and it's a a smaller cul-de-sac called Napier Close.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if anyone might have some pics of that area from the 50s or 60s? We were the last family to move in that street.