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| Kidbrook Lane in 1872 with the Nine Fields to the north |
But I think there will not be that many, and certainly now few who will have played on them
Their existence was unknown to me and it was my friend Jean who set me off on a search for them.
She rememberd that “my father told me there were fields stretching from Well Hall Road from the Catholic Church,right across to Kidbrook, before the Kidbrooke estate was built.
Dad was talking about the 1920s when he was growing up at 47 Lovelace Green.”
And with the power of the internet there almost as soon as I started was a reference to the open land that was called Nine Fields, before the Page Brook estate was built. Moreover she remembered that they were one vast children’s play area. At one time small bi-planes were there offering cheap flights.”*
And in turn this led me on to an excellent description of the estates being built in the 1920.**
In the great sweep of world history I grant you that this little discovery is hardly earth shattering, but for people like me who have wandered that bit of Eltham and my sister who lives on Bournbrook Road it remains an interesting insight into what was and what has now gone.
Even more so because when we washed up on Well Hall Road in the 1960s those fields were still within living memory.
Now I am not so sure.
Location, Eltham, London
*Lily Tyrrell (Brown), from Eltham, Mottingham, New Eltham SE9
Royal Borough of Greenwich, http://www.thisiseltham.co.uk/lilyTyrrell.php
**Municipal Dreams, http://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/page_estate_eltham/
And in turn this led me on to an excellent description of the eststaes being built in the 1920.** http://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/page_estate_eltham/
Picture; detail from the OS for London 1862-72, courtesy of Digital Archives Association, http://www.digitalarchives.co.uk/
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