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Surrey / Re: Epsom Workhouse "Middle House" in 1941
« on: Friday 21 January 11 20:06 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks, Mark.
I too, have a couple of paperbacks (?Sutton Libraries or somesuch) of St Helier and district.
I'd be very interested to know if the Piles directory showed the household into which I was born.
Our part of Garendon Road was JUST inside Carshalton's border and its parish.  I was born June 1932 and. although I was only 7 or 8 when I moved round the corner (1939-1940) onto the Sutton Bypass, I still remember families like: Applegarth, Symonds, Favell, Nelson, Charrington, Sparks, Stackhouse, Bullard, Clarke, Glass, Gunn, Parker, Chase, Broad, MALLION (that's US!), Morton, Dobwell, Winskell,...to name but a few!  I believe my parents and older brothers moved-in (from Islington) circa 1930.
Do let me know if there's anything at all I might be able to fill-in for you.
Cheers,
Bill    Friday evening 21 Jan 2011

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Surrey / Re: Epsom Workhouse "Middle House" in 1941
« on: Thursday 20 January 11 17:28 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Mark1973
Thank you. Yours was the first response to my first try at using this website: still very shaky  at navigating my way around it! I was born in Garendon Road Morden (parish of Carshalton) in 1932.  Moved around the corner onto Reigate Avenue Sutton, a few months before the 1940 Blitz started.  I lived there til I married Joan from Garendon Road in 1955.  Via a flat in Courtenay Road Worcester Park, another in Carshalton Beeches and a room in Joan's Mum's in Garendon Road, we finally bought a house in Priory Crescent Cheam (2,625.00 !)in 1958; had a son and a daughter there and moved up here to Suffolk early 1973.  I've recently been searching for info about our area prior to the building of St Helier Estate by the LCC.  You'll appreciate that all my Sutton & Cheam, Morden, Carshalton info is now -well- vintage!  If I can help filling-in any gaps for you at any time- just ask; I'm a mine of useless information!  Best wishes,
Bill aka "St Helier Boy".

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Surrey / Re: Epsom Workhouse "Middle House" in 1941
« on: Wednesday 19 January 11 20:12 GMT (UK)  »
Re: Epsom Workhouse "Middle House"
Don't know if this info is of any use to provide a "link", but here goes:-
 :-\ During the Blitz of 1940/41 I was 8-9.  I had a blister on my knee.  I picked it (of course!).  It turned septic and my leg swelled-up like a telegraph pole! Mum brought me from Sutton & Cheam ("Struggle & Scream") Hospital by 164 to Sutton "The Cock", thence by green 470, to Epsom District Hospital AKA "The Workhouse".  I was about a week in an upstairs ward with open balcony guarded by diamond mesh screen.  Overnight we could hear the bombing- more over Morden, Carshalton direction.
Bill- aka "St Helier Boy"

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