Now anyone who walked up to the High Street from anywhere along Well Hall Road may well have wondered about these houses.
I was always fascinated by how high and set back they were from the road and was always particularly intrigued by the one with high wall and brick entrance.
And I remember the time when one of the occupants excavated all that land in front of their house to create a car space which must have been in the late 60s or early 70s.
In time someone will post on the history of these properties.
Tricia’s picture, she thinks, dates from the 1930s and certainly the tram lines will date it to before the end of the 1940s.
When I regularly walked Well Hall from our house just beyond the roundabout which will have been thirty or so year after the picture was taken little had changed.
And I still remember the school friend who lived on the opposite side of the road.
She was called Deboarah, was a year below me at Crown Woods and went off to train as a teacher. Alas our paths never crossed again.
Many others remember those houses. My friend Jean thought they were posh while Lesley like me passed them many times on foot.
For me it was the return journey back from the High Street, which was just that better with its view down the slope to the station and then that steady rise away in the distance that took in the Odeon and the woods.
So thank you Tricia for posting the pictures.
Memories are made of these.
Location; Eltham
Pictures; Well Hall Road, circa 1930s, courtesy of Tricia Leslie
And I remember the time when one of the occupants excavated all that land in front of their house to create a car space which must have been in the late 60s or early 70s.
In time someone will post on the history of these properties.
Tricia’s picture, she thinks, dates from the 1930s and certainly the tram lines will date it to before the end of the 1940s.
When I regularly walked Well Hall from our house just beyond the roundabout which will have been thirty or so year after the picture was taken little had changed.
She was called Deboarah, was a year below me at Crown Woods and went off to train as a teacher. Alas our paths never crossed again.
Many others remember those houses. My friend Jean thought they were posh while Lesley like me passed them many times on foot.
For me it was the return journey back from the High Street, which was just that better with its view down the slope to the station and then that steady rise away in the distance that took in the Odeon and the woods.
So thank you Tricia for posting the pictures.
Memories are made of these.
Location; Eltham
Pictures; Well Hall Road, circa 1930s, courtesy of Tricia Leslie
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