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Forest Hill History Walk & Treasure Hunt
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oldforesthillian


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20-06-2010 09:51 PM

Thank you so much for your time and effort in producing the Forest Hill walk. I lived in Forest Hill from 1951 to 1970 and am so pleased to see that all the old familiar buildings are still standing and looking really good. I lived behind Ashberry Cottage and used to scrump plums from over the garden wall. As children we were petrified of the man who lived there as he was a Druid or something and used to do weird chants in the garden!
Hill House hasn't changed at all. So many memories flooding back!

The white house opposite the junction with London Rd/Honor Oak Rd, in the fifties and sixties there was a very posh old lady with a smelly Pekinese dog who lived there.

Brampton Road was unmade and just shingle in the fifties and full of muddy potholes. On the corner of the road was a lady with an Alsation dog which had lost the use of its back legs and walked on wheels.

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