Woodlands Park Road c 1910

Comment by StephenBln on January 14, 2017 at 14:35

This was a bomb site.. with prefabs from the late 1940s until the middle 1960s.

Comment by Christine Killick on January 20, 2017 at 16:44

Remember playing in the derelict houses during the late 1950's.

Comment by Roy Abbs on January 9, 2018 at 22:34

I lived in one of the prefabs, 90 Woodlands Park Rd. c. 1959 to 1966. Must be close to where this picture was taken from. Woodlands Park School was in Blackboy Lane at that time.

Comment by Hugh on January 10, 2018 at 2:42

Yes the terrace was destroyed to the right of a point between the letters ‘y’ and ‘o’ of the watermark. This is where the school now stands. 

Comment by Eric Fry on January 11, 2019 at 7:15

   As a boy from The Blitz, I went to the school in Blackboy Lane between 1940 /45 . We had our own “War”, twice a year with another school the other side of the park. Summer we had a stone fight and Winter we had snow ( or anything that was handy, to repel the enemy.

My Dad had the Cafe in St. Ann’s road, which I believe is now a vegetable shop. For a number of years ,Dad would provide breakfasts and late night cuppas for the workers at the Ever Ready factory, that was one of the areas targetted by the German bombers. 

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