It was a far more innocent age or at least we used to think so and back then I thought nothing of taking a picture of a young person sitting on the green.
Today I would think twice, and quite rightly so, added to which I tend to ask permission before I take a picture of anyone out walking or even of their house or their car.
But something like forty years now separate me from the scene which includes the young person and distance does add to anonymity.
We are behind our house and I guess I would have wandered through the passage way from Well Hall Road and onto the green and from there may well have ambled on up towards the woods.
It is a familiar view for countless people who grew up on the estate and still do today.
But now I am not so sure it is Lovelace Green.
Memory and the logic of where I would have gone suggests that it is Lovelace Green but modern pictures have thrown me.
And that is the price you pay for leaving home 44 years ago.
Either way it is a view I remember with affection and one that brings back my carefree childhood.
For four decades it was one of the pictures I took of Eltham and Woolwich in the mid ‘70’s which sat undisturbed in our cellar.
But all good things eventually come to light.
They were colour slides which have been transferred electronically.
The quality of the original lighting and the sharpness is sometimes iffy, but they are a record of a lost Eltham and Woolwich.
But despite the quality it was good enough for Jacqui to comment that "It's Lovelace Andrew, looking now on streetview the trees on the green have obviously grown and the post and chain fence has gone.
The only puzzle is why the woods can no longer be seen over the rooftops! Thanks for the memories, I would have been biking around the estate as a 15 year old, happy days!".
Location; Well Hall
Picture; Well Hall circa 1976, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
But something like forty years now separate me from the scene which includes the young person and distance does add to anonymity.
We are behind our house and I guess I would have wandered through the passage way from Well Hall Road and onto the green and from there may well have ambled on up towards the woods.
But now I am not so sure it is Lovelace Green.
Memory and the logic of where I would have gone suggests that it is Lovelace Green but modern pictures have thrown me.
And that is the price you pay for leaving home 44 years ago.
Either way it is a view I remember with affection and one that brings back my carefree childhood.
But all good things eventually come to light.
They were colour slides which have been transferred electronically.
The quality of the original lighting and the sharpness is sometimes iffy, but they are a record of a lost Eltham and Woolwich.
But despite the quality it was good enough for Jacqui to comment that "It's Lovelace Andrew, looking now on streetview the trees on the green have obviously grown and the post and chain fence has gone.
The only puzzle is why the woods can no longer be seen over the rooftops! Thanks for the memories, I would have been biking around the estate as a 15 year old, happy days!".
Location; Well Hall
Picture; Well Hall circa 1976, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
Pretty sure that is Lovelace Green, my sister and her husband lived there for forty years moving there in 1961. Just love the Progress Estate.
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ReplyDeleteyes deffo lovelace green,looking at big green ,can see my old home in top pic,just see the beams on front of no 47 lovelace green,top left,we had small green in front of house,them white house stganding 2 along from us to the right was where mrs gill lived,we were the wa\de family,in family from 1915 till the late 50s,lovely little house,
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ReplyDeleteWould phineas pett road been on this estate?
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