Amazing memories, all my sisters were there from around 1953 till they were old enough to leave, so were there all their child hood, I was the lucky one ( if that's the right term) as I only stayed there for around 18 months and then came to Devon on the summer holidays and never went back, that was 69 years ago and still going strong.Sheila, Christine, and Jennifer Bentley were my sisters. I remember a Betty Hayes? some where on a picnic on an outing and she was my first kiss, well peck really, but always remember her, Being brought up in Battersea then put in the CRH then coming to Exeter Devon was such a change of life for me. Dennis
Evershed.. known as Dad? He wasn't! Baby "borrowed" from Brantwoods (where children up to the age of 6 lived (that was over the road!) Washing up was done once a week! It was done. Every. Single. Day! The Love Fund got stolen in a burglary, in the mid 60's, along with a load of trophies and other silverware won for various sporting activities. Two bob a week! ppff.. Depends on how old you were, and those kiddies in the shot would've had a bit less! Those OAP's were in The Wynberg, a house for retired ex-railway employees, who were very well looked after! Piper, the shoe mender, doing this for the camera, as leather soled shoes were on the way out then. Keep those wellies on kid, that basement was prone to flooding in really bad weather and that shoe store held a fair selection of footwear, but you could only select from what was available, no ordering non-stock items allowed. MH badge on the school jacket was the Monument Hill school, it no longer exists and was opposite the P.o.W pub in Princess Road) Those railway sidings still exist and can be seen as you go past what is now Woking Homes, a footpath used to lead from the buildings (Pipers shoe repair shop and other service buildings) up to the tracks. (Look it up on Google maps)
@@Wabbit_Hunta Yes, I was really alluding to the period before the Beeching cuts when the Railways had a mileage greater that which pertained after the "Beeching" cuts in the Transport Plan of '63. In the 50's most railways were operating much as they did just prior to the war but the rise in the use of the car was to be the death knell. I loved the 50's, lots of little branch lines and puffing steam engines, just as the film (and of course the book) The Railway Children portrayed. Jenny Agutter had her part in that film, she was the eldest of the three children and some 10 or so years ago I met her father, Derek Agutter. We had many a meal together and he told me all about his daughter and how she started her acting career. Such a lovely old man, very much one of the old school.
Amazing memories, all my sisters were there from around 1953 till they were old enough to leave, so were there all their child hood, I was the lucky one ( if that's the right term) as I only stayed there for around 18 months and then came to Devon on the summer holidays and never went back, that was 69 years ago and still going strong.Sheila, Christine, and Jennifer Bentley were my sisters. I remember a Betty Hayes? some where on a picnic on an outing and she was my first kiss, well peck really, but always remember her, Being brought up in Battersea then put in the CRH then coming to Exeter Devon was such a change of life for me. Dennis
Wow. Interesting.
I have watched the 1968 Oliver film. Mark Lester as Oliver Twist.
1:07, baby be like why have you forsaken me mother...why....
Evershed.. known as Dad? He wasn't!
Baby "borrowed" from Brantwoods (where children up to the age of 6 lived (that was over the road!)
Washing up was done once a week! It was done. Every. Single. Day!
The Love Fund got stolen in a burglary, in the mid 60's, along with a load of trophies and other silverware won for various sporting activities.
Two bob a week! ppff.. Depends on how old you were, and those kiddies in the shot would've had a bit less!
Those OAP's were in The Wynberg, a house for retired ex-railway employees, who were very well looked after!
Piper, the shoe mender, doing this for the camera, as leather soled shoes were on the way out then.
Keep those wellies on kid, that basement was prone to flooding in really bad weather and that shoe store held a fair selection of footwear, but you could only select from what was available, no ordering non-stock items allowed.
MH badge on the school jacket was the Monument Hill school, it no longer exists and was opposite the P.o.W pub in Princess Road)
Those railway sidings still exist and can be seen as you go past what is now Woking Homes, a footpath used to lead from the buildings (Pipers shoe repair shop and other service buildings) up to the tracks. (Look it up on Google maps)
Thank you for the clarifications!!
The Railway Children 1970.
Great times the 1950s
That was shot in the mid 60's!
@@Wabbit_Hunta Yes, I was really alluding to the period before the Beeching cuts when the Railways had a mileage greater that which pertained after the "Beeching" cuts in the Transport Plan of '63. In the 50's most railways were operating much as they did just prior to the war but the rise in the use of the car was to be the death knell. I loved the 50's, lots of little branch lines and puffing steam engines, just as the film (and of course the book) The Railway Children portrayed. Jenny Agutter had her part in that film, she was the eldest of the three children and some 10 or so years ago I met her father, Derek Agutter. We had many a meal together and he told me all about his daughter and how she started her acting career. Such a lovely old man, very much one of the old school.