tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post5689697490920291025..comments2024-03-13T07:34:24.149+00:00Comments on The Age of Uncertainty: Teddington - a Dreary, Overpriced Suburb?Steerforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-91826354120514785652023-10-12T17:42:06.256+00:002023-10-12T17:42:06.256+00:00Teddington holds such special memories for me . My...Teddington holds such special memories for me . My sister and I grew up in Cambridge Crescent in the 70's and 80's, and my Gran lived by the small Church in Twickenham Road. Mum used to walk us to Collis Primary school stopping to buy peaches from he VG store on the high street. My auntie and uncle owned and ran The Charcoal Grill restaurant and we spent our childhood days in Bushy Park and Diana Park. We loved the library on Waldergrave Road, we used to read the books in the children's area and wait there for Dad to finish (he worked next door in the old AA building.). Dowsetts the sweet shop was always full of kids and I remember a fur shop on the corner. The model shop was brilliant, we always stopped to look at the window display and as someone mentioned before there was a very chatty Minor Bird in the green grocers. Woolworth was always a favourite for pic n mix. Later we both went to Stanley Road School.<br />Buses were never on time when we were kids,.. no electronic signs to tell you when they were due. My favourite piece of graffiti on a bus stop in Teddington High Street was.. I died here waiting for the 281 :) It really was a happy time for my family.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-57473802957987471322022-11-08T19:30:37.401+00:002022-11-08T19:30:37.401+00:00I grew up in Teddington inter 50s 60 s and sevent...I grew up in Teddington inter 50s 60 s and seventies you could not of wished to be in a better town we had everything at our fingertips ,outside swimming pool teddington lock bushy park teddington studios where we could meet top football players and get there autographs the model shop on the bridge every kids dream we had two places to eat liles cafe and the charcoal grill it’s still a loverly town but not as friendly as it was years ago don’t think I could live there now been in Whitton for over 30 years now Andy from Udney park road Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-79522053965196194692020-07-05T08:07:18.598+00:002020-07-05T08:07:18.598+00:00Very moving. I hope your life is better now. Very moving. I hope your life is better now. SuedeNymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11800418557142837360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-75759730750378806822019-12-06T21:31:31.984+00:002019-12-06T21:31:31.984+00:00Love it. Bring back the 80's!! All that shite ...Love it. Bring back the 80's!! All that shite music and stuff. I seem to remember Ah-ha recorded a music video in the then derelict St Alban's church. Cool beans baby yeah!!. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-30342914809186935152019-09-04T20:45:04.528+00:002019-09-04T20:45:04.528+00:00I THINK MOTHER MAKES FIVE WAS FILMED OF THE BROOM...I THINK MOTHER MAKES FIVE WAS FILMED OF THE BROOM RD AND LOVE THY BABOURGH WAS FILMED NEAR BUSHY PARK GAS WORKSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-56443041822179174772019-09-04T20:36:18.318+00:002019-09-04T20:36:18.318+00:00 I WENT TO A SPECAIL SCHOOL CALLED OLDFIELD SCHOOL... I WENT TO A SPECAIL SCHOOL CALLED OLDFIELD SCHOOL IN OLDFIELD LANE IN HAMPTON THERE I WAS LEFT A LONE AS IT WAS EASER TO LEAVE ME THEN TRY TO MAKE ME DO ANY THING AS I WOULD DESTUBE THE CLASS AND THE TEACHER WOULD HAVE TO STOP THE LESSION AGAIN I NO WHY I DID WHAT I DID I NEW I COULD NOT LEARN THEY WAYS THEY WERE TEACHING THE OTHER S IT WAS LIKE IN A RACE AND U ARIVED TEN WEEKS LATER O BACK TO ST JOHNS THE BAPITIST I WAS EXPLED AFTER AROUND 10 WEEKS OF BEEN AT THE SCHOOL AS AGAIN I KETP RUNNING AWAY SO FROM 5 YEAR OLD I WAS RUNNING AWAY FROM EVERYONE EVEN WHEN I WAS IN MY TEENS TELL I WAS 17 I KEPT RUNNING AWAY EVEN LATER BUT SORRY CANT WRITE REGARDING WHY .BACK TO OLDFIEND I REMEBDER THEDAY I WAS LEAVING I SAT ON THE COUCH BUS AND CRYED MY HART OUT AND I WAS MENT TO BE THE BAD KID THEY ALL LEFT NO NOT HARD FAR FROM IT BUT BAD MAD DESTUBED THERE WAS ME CRYING WIPING TEARS AWAY FROM MY EYES SAD I WAS LEAVING A PLACE I HAD MEEN IN FOR 3 AND A HALF YEARS TO MOST OF U SO WHAT FOR ME THAT WAS THE LO0NGEST PLACE I HAD EVER BEEN THAT SCHOOL WAS LIKE MY HOME EVEN THOUGH I SMASHED THE SCHOOL WINDOWS EVERY OTHER WEEK IF I WAS COLD AND THEY WOULD NOT LET ME IN OR I GOT UP SET WOW U WERE I NOGHTY KID SOME OF U WOULD SAY NORTY NOI WAS FUSTRATED I COULD NOT LEARN I COULD NOT GRAPE HOW TO READ AND LEFT LIKE A OR FOR THE BAD WORDS I FELK LIKE A DICK HEAD THEY SAT ME DOWN WHICH CARDS WITH AT 9 TO YEARS LEARNING TO READ WE ME HE IT SHE CAN JANE PETER THE SET ANDSAT WO MOST THERE AND FORE YEARS COULD READ THAT I WAS 10 HOW THE HELL COUKLD I CATCH UP I WAS GREAT AT MATHS AND NEW ALL THE 12 TIMES TADLES BE FOR I WAS 6 AND COULD BEAT MOST 10 TO 11 YEARS OLDS HOW EVER WHEN IT CAME TO HIGH SCHOOL THAT WHEN I NEW THERE WAS SOME MAJOR PROBLEM WITH ME FIRTS YEAR IN MATHS I WAS OK BUT THEN U HAD TO READ THE QUESTION I WAS LOST AND BEEN MIXED RAXE WITH ALL THE RACED BOYS NOT GIRLS BUT BOYS I WOULD GET A KICK IN MOST TIMES BY ABOUT THREE OF FOUR KIDS AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK <br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-39432962511856546852019-09-04T20:16:03.135+00:002019-09-04T20:16:03.135+00:00number four child in the home 31 king Edwards gro...number four child in the home 31 king Edwards grove Teddington the phone number at the time was 01 9777801 at 7 I went to st johns the batipest school near Hampton wick but as I was a what one would call today as a desturbed kid as I lost the plot very Easley nothing has changed that y I have stayed single and way we I had some very good times in Teddington we used to go to the rec most days and play football all races as the kids in your rd did not mind if u were black or mixed race it only matted when I went to high school as a kid we went to bushy park and had pack lunches me and another kid in the rd who lived in another home used to do car washing and get from 10 p to 25 p per car I waso did gardening work at 10 and 11 to earn pocket money and also planted flowers and sweeped carpets with a dustpan and brush of which I got 10 p ,a also cleaned silver cups and in king edwaRDS GROVE THERE WAS A ACTOR IN THE BROTHERS PROGRAM THAT WE CLEANED HIS CARS HE GAVE US 25 P EACH . AT ST JOHNS THERE WAS A TEACHER CALLED MRS COOK SHE BROUGHT ME A SMALL CASE OF WHICH I HAD AND TELL TEN YEARS AGO AS IT FELL TO BITS I ALSO REMEMBERED THE TESCO IN TEDDINGTON AS I USED TO GO PANNY FOR A GUY UP THERE AS A 10 YEAR OLD AND ALSO CAROL SINGING BUT OLEY NEW 20 PER SENT OF THE WORDS AS I COULD NOT READ AS A KID WE ALSO WENT TO BUSHY PARK AND MADE DENS OUT OF THE BRACKION ONE DAY WE HAD A VISET FROM I LOAD OF COWS BOY I DONT NO WHO MHIT THERE SELFS FIRST ME OR THE COWS <br />GREAT TIME S XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX RESTED TO TEDDINGTON WELL MISED ONE GENT IN OUR RD HAD A OLD ROLLER WELL IT LOOKED LIKE ON AND ANOTHER GENT HAD TWO BROWN FLUFFY TEDDY BARE LIKE DOGS , REMEMBER THE FRANZES AND JARVIS AND LOVELY BLOND JULIS WHEN SHE MOVED IN THE RD I WAS IN LOVE WITH HER WOW AND ANOTHER GIRL MOVED INTHE RD THAT LIKED ME WAS SUS BUT I WAS SO INACHORE AND WAS MORE WORRIED ABOUT WHAT WOULD HAPPED TO ME WHEN I LIFT CARE . AT 14 I WAS TAKEN INTO THE HOME OFFICE AND WAS HIT WITH A BOMB SHEEL WHELL FOR MOST OF U NOT SURE U WOULD UNDERSTAND WOW I WAS TOLD AFTER 14 YEARS OF SEEING OTHER KIDS IN CARE AND MOST OF THE PEOPLE I HAD EVER HAD CONTACT WITH THAT THEY HAD FOUND MY MUM WOW I REMEMBER TEARS COMEING TO MY EYES LIKE NOW 14 AND AT LAST I COULD GO TO SCHOOL AND SAY YES I DO HAVE A MUM AND BROTHER AND SISTERS WOW THEY ASKED ME AT 14 WOULD I WANT TO SEE HER I WAS 14 BUT HAD A MIND OF A 7 YEAR OLD AND EDUCATION STANDARDS OF A 7 EARS OLD AND COULD READ AS GOOD AS A 4 YEAR OLD OF COURE I WANT TO MEET THIS LADY ANYWAY THE DAY CAME THE TWO HEADS OF STAFF WERE IN THE OFFICE WITH ME AND THIS SORRY I AM MIXED RACE AND AT THE TIME 14 WITH A MIND OF A 7 YEASRS OLD SO SEEING A WHITE LADY AND ME BEEN MIXED RACE WAS A BIT CONFUSING TO THE LEATS I SAT THERE AS SHE AND A WHITE MAN WITH HER SAT THERE SHE SAID I AM YOUR MUM AND HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU ALL HER LIFE I WAS EVEN MORE SONFUSED THEN EVER AS SEEING ANIMALS HAVE BABYS AND THE MOTHERS GIVE THEM CUDELS AND FEEDING THEM WITH THERE TITS AND SO ON I REMEMER SHE SAYING CAN I HUG ME WOW 14 AND I MIND OF A KID I WAS EXSTTED BUT A BIT FRITENED AS ALL I HAD MOST OF MY LIFE WAS SOMEONE HAVING ME THEN I HAD TO MOVE ON SO IT WAS STRANGE I WAS I GOOD KID BUT BUCKED UP CONFUSED NOT TRUSTING ANYONE ALWAYS WEREY OF PEOPLE NEVER HAVING A BOND I AM STOPING NOW AS I HAVE GONE OF THE RAILS AS THIS IS ABOUT TEDDINGTON NOT ME <br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-81322381161797919062019-09-04T19:40:34.644+00:002019-09-04T19:40:34.644+00:00first and formost what a lovely wright up it bri...first and formost what a lovely wright up it brings tears to my eyes reading such wonderfull experances of your times in Teddington .now I will try to express mine and forgive the spelling mistakes as education was something I never grasped because of my childhood here goes I moved to Teddington as a 7 year old mixed race kid I was raised in foster homes from the age of 3 months old tell I was five 7 foster homes before I was 6 onkly the last one I can barely rember this was in Basingstoke with a family called the spencers they had 3 children of there own a very nice family that gave me the basic needs but at 5 and 6 what else would I no I do remember them living near a farm and they brought me a three wheeler ed bile and a blue scuter but I kept running away and one of there sons came with me so they had no chorse but to place me in care I remember the day the sosalworker came to take me iway my hart was exsited and broken but at 6 I looked at it as a day out .iremember reaching the home in Harlesden there was a load of geace running about then the social work left I do remember the spencers came to see me for 6 months bringing me comics and sweets I do beleave they did love me other wise thay would not have borthed as its a long way from Basingstoke to Harlesden battess green rd home not there now any way I stayed there for one year and moved to Teddington in june 1969 to a childrens home newly built which house 14 kids I was the number 4 to arrive wow having a rest <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-67018381657472249582019-06-19T17:49:30.937+00:002019-06-19T17:49:30.937+00:00Dear Mr steerforth. Are you related to daniel?, I ...Dear Mr steerforth. Are you related to daniel?, I went to st John's with him in the 80's. I just wanted to share my experiences of particularly the river roads, i.e Munster road, Atbara and King Edwards grove. In the early 80's things were very happy, a little boring perhaps, but good friends and fun times made it more than fair. Unfortunately as the mid 90's happened a lot of the people I knew moved away and suddenly a new type of teddingtonians arrived. They didn't stay long (presumably due to being mortgaged up to the eyeballs lol). Anyway things changed and although I have fond memories of teddington I don't miss it. I did go back recently and all the shops have now changed to bistro wine bars and coffee shops. The average car has now gone from a Volvo and Saab to a Porsche and worse. Anyway good luck to the original folks still living there. I personally now enjoy a good chat with my neighbours without all that keeping up with the joneses stuff. Keep posting the photos steerforth and best regards. DaveAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03885202349059402321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-12893315212241845342018-10-18T09:55:28.840+00:002018-10-18T09:55:28.840+00:00I reamber the black Smith and it always remind me ...I reamber the black Smith and it always remind me from home I was from Newmarket a lot of us boread at school profficinal children school I think it was down church lane ?I us to watch the black smith shoeing the horses I reamber the fish and chip shop shop we use to get are bus out side the hospital never came most time we would walk to Hampton spend are bus money on cider loly then walk to hanworth which us to have a loverly garden centre I loved bushy park I got a job with the civil sevic in teddington so it was like going back as I went to that school age 6when it open and 14 when it close wears day of are life but teddington hospital was loverly it was like an old fashion hospital I will always miss it I reamber the police station ireamber the libury wasent thear an open air swimming pool ? I now it was some war I must come back and visit Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18321144554956236682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-41035757989601046952018-04-30T22:05:31.714+00:002018-04-30T22:05:31.714+00:00We moved from Princes Road in 1957 to tth other en...We moved from Princes Road in 1957 to tth other end of Teddington, in the High Street, opposite Kingston Lane. The house had gas lighting still which had to be stripped out to install electricity! There were no restaurants then but a few basic shops and Ormande Eavns the grocers. My parents bought their house for about £1400. TheyTwere there until the 1980s when we sold the house. However I see now it is on the market for over £1.5 million! These are crazy prices. Even if I wanted to I couldn't afford to.move back. I know it is more crowded now with traffic problems. Bushey Park was a lovely place, the jewel of Teddington. <br />I went to school in Twickenham but can't see how it is any better than Teddington. A place is what you make of it.SuedeNymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11800418557142837360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-41838083697749053902017-12-05T15:51:39.341+00:002017-12-05T15:51:39.341+00:00Mr Haynes (Haines) the bus inspector and his wife,...Mr Haynes (Haines) the bus inspector and his wife, lived opposite us in Stanley Gardens Road, and the Cox's further up the street on our side. Some of us couldn't afford to remain as house-buying residents in this our little hometown: depending upon your choice of career; so we had to move, after 25 years. This means that our ancestors are still buried in Shacklegate Lane cemetery, but for those who didn't return from the war; one of mine lies in the cemetery having been killed in Flanders Fields.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12110439738188755639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-90130547455534310322017-12-03T20:54:04.451+00:002017-12-03T20:54:04.451+00:00This is a great post, especially the photos. This ...This is a great post, especially the photos. This is the third time trying to post a comment. My Google sign in wouldn't work so I had to re-register. That didn't work. So here's hoping. <br /><br />Going to be quick this time. I'm from this area and still live here after 20 years in London. I love Teddington. Most women don't inject poison into their faces like they do in most wealthy areas and some men don't reach 40 with an urge to drive a BMW or Mercedes. It's not that bad. There's still a good community and people who've been here a long time. Like me. <br /><br />But to the point of my comment. The place on Stanley Road was Harry's Bar but does anyone know what shop was on the corner of Church Road/Walpole Road? My aunty lived just across the road on Church Road. I went there every day after school to babysit for my cousin. And yet I can't remember the place at all. Someone told me it was where Dowsett's used to be. I'd love to know more about the building if anyone knows anything. <br /><br />????<br /><br />Here's hoping (and hoping this comment will succeed this time! it didn't so am posting under 'anonymous').<br /><br />Thanks<br /><br />JessAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-18752291290054639152017-12-03T17:08:32.619+00:002017-12-03T17:08:32.619+00:00I dont know if youll get this as I know this is an...I dont know if youll get this as I know this is an old blog, but Im wondering who Im writing to as my granddad and his brother were the ones running Clements green grocers :)Tom.Clementhttp://www.facebook.com/averagwhitetacnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-49234448752546412572017-08-26T20:40:22.330+00:002017-08-26T20:40:22.330+00:00I'm so pleased to have read this. I grew up in...I'm so pleased to have read this. I grew up in Teddington in the 1970's after moving from a boat next to Kingston Bridge. Now when I visit and walk the length of Fairfax Road I have the same oppressive feeling I have in Notting Hill where things are equally manicured and uniform. I remember buying rabbit food from a shop which would measure it out and put it in a paper bag.like you say things were local and sustainable without needing to write a manifesto! I could afford a studio flat in teddington so I've moved to the South Coast. Thanks for the reassuring post.Cavallanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-63448716908587128572017-05-21T20:16:40.249+00:002017-05-21T20:16:40.249+00:00Grew up in teddington.
Full of snobby wanna be ric...Grew up in teddington.<br />Full of snobby wanna be rich people who are stuck right up their own posterior parts. <br />Yes it's changed. Probably for the worse in the sense that there is no community spirit anymore, just posing and people trying to look better than the next man.<br />I don't live there anymore and I am glad of that. <br />At least now my neighbour stops for a chat rather than sticking sticking the nose in the air as they get in that brand new Mercedes or Porsche.<br />Good post I enjoyed it.Taylor Frynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-60260617347150238642017-01-17T10:46:45.295+00:002017-01-17T10:46:45.295+00:00Was it Harry's in Stanley Road? That was on a ...Was it Harry's in Stanley Road? That was on a corner with one of the side roads. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14982707315074309733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-85581174639897163982017-01-16T10:13:50.496+00:002017-01-16T10:13:50.496+00:00just came across your blog by accident, but enjoye...just came across your blog by accident, but enjoyed it so much, i also grew up in teddington, (born 1964) so have so many memories of the places you mention! That photo of your mum, is she on the road that went past the NPL on the way to bushy park? we lived in coleshill road so were always up and down there on our bikes!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05048711322391105453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-3240592092688846362016-06-21T18:06:07.256+00:002016-06-21T18:06:07.256+00:00Someone must remember the wine bar in Teddington, ...Someone must remember the wine bar in Teddington, round about 1979 - 80......I can't remember what road it was on, but can picture it, on a corner, had an awning outside and I seem to recall large potted palms inside. Time has also wiped its name from my memory bank, but it was a really popular place!!Chelsealouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10790602796878765772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-46653960638303469352016-01-17T19:28:26.413+00:002016-01-17T19:28:26.413+00:00i grew up in the 70s the place to be was the royal...i grew up in the 70s the place to be was the royal oak on the high street every saturday you could see SID james having a shant ...and going to the bookies to pick up his winings and buying a beer for everyone in the pub....the best memories were Tommy Cooper what a man we had many a laugh with him ....just till 2..3 o clock in the morning<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-46897819196468458252015-08-20T11:14:52.459+00:002015-08-20T11:14:52.459+00:00It's great memories of teddington!! Really app...It's great memories of teddington!! Really appreciate the fact that you approach these topics.keep posting!!Rent my property in Teddingtonhttp://www.rebeccasmithpropertyservices.co.uk/tenants/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-26917434082608021062015-04-22T21:24:49.136+00:002015-04-22T21:24:49.136+00:00I remember Paul's Plaice very well. In those d...I remember Paul's Plaice very well. In those days, nobody thought twice about letting a nine-year-old out on their own and I'd often pop around the corner to buy a pickled onion from your parents. Happy memories.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-57285850863867754582015-04-22T16:23:05.498+00:002015-04-22T16:23:05.498+00:00Great memories of teddington. It's great readi...Great memories of teddington. It's great reading memories of teddington and the parade of shops in waldegrave road teddington where I was born and brought up. My parents ran the fish and chip shop on waldegrave road that was then known as pauls plaice. Fond memories of going out to our back garden and savouring the scent of the mint that bill and dave (clements the greengrocers) would grow next door in the back garden /being given freebies of sweets from the newsagent (before caseys came) sadly the atmosphere of that parade no longer exists! Johnpaul Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-11129848307637831942015-03-31T07:19:24.558+00:002015-03-31T07:19:24.558+00:00Glad the photo brought back happy memories (apart ...Glad the photo brought back happy memories (apart from waiting for the 27/270). I remember very clearly going to Clements, (often followed by a trip the hardware store to stock up on paraffin). My mother wouldn't buy fruit and veg from Tesco.<br /><br />I agree that the supermarkets killed off the shops that gave the area its character. The Yuppie era did the rest, turning Teddington into a property 'hotspot'.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-83233012556797688952015-03-31T00:45:55.163+00:002015-03-31T00:45:55.163+00:00Clements the grocers in the bus stop photo belonge...Clements the grocers in the bus stop photo belonged to my grandparents and then the two brothers of my mums. I have wonderful memories of big family get togethers I was born in 1958 so roughly the same time as the articles writer! I also remember waiting for ages for buses outside the shop! Unfortunate my grand parents are no longer with us and my uncles.retired. The undoing of all those marvellous friendly shops was the new supermarkets - but that's another story! My mother was recently given a copy of said photo which brought back happy times for her. Is wonderful to see articles like this what would we do without the web etxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com