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I lived opposite the school and my mother was a cleaner there for many years, including up to 1959. I used to go there after school (Churchdown) to help her. Perhaps your brother was one of those Durham Hill School boys who used to pull my beret off and run away with it!
When I think of how hard my poor mother worked in those days, it makes me wince. There weren't any electrical appliances, it was all broom, mop and bucket and elbow grease and sand and oil for the floors at the weekend applied with a cloth on a broom handle.
perhaps he was one of those very boys 
!!!!! I know how hard they worked in those days my mummy bless her heart used to work at Hither Green Hospital in the laundry used to go and meet her after I came out of school, poor mummy her arms used to be covered in burns etc from the steam, jolly hard work used to watch them through the window folding all those massive sheets steam everywhere!!!!.... my god she earned her money in those days... I am now a caretaker/cleaner at our local primary school, even though all electrical appliances its still hard work, and |I still use a bit of elbow grease...Snowdrop, in case you haven't found it, there is a nice photo of Dagonet Gardens on the Phoenix Housing Association website.Hiya Brenda thanks for that, no I didnt know that, I will take a look, probably my memory is not what it was as well.
Can anyone identify which bit of Downham Way is in the adjoining photograph?
Looks like my memory is beginning to fail me. Dementia here I come.
SUE ! nice name but we can stick to Snowdrop provide you don't blame me for being in the club plum , where were you posted? Did you marry a Pongo too ? dickie..................
Ah! RMS Snowdrop no doubt, my eldest daughter was in the WRAC ( it used to be the ATS ! and I have a couple of cap badges to prove it ) She went from Frimley straight to Northern Ireland, or Ulster to give it its proper name, her second posting was to Cyprus a couple of months before the Turks invaded I think she was with the 9th. Signals. but she enjoyed every minute of it. There is a Portrait of her in the Gallery. How about a portrait of Snowdrop too? dickie......................
Wow I used to remember seeing that when I was sitting on the bus going passed it,
Gosh - that building looks so familiar. Blowed if I can remember where I saw it though!
I remember the 'pet' shop as well - and can someone confirm that I have located it correctly i.e. near to the Savoy ballroom in Catford. And what about the Savoy ballroom - is it still in existence? Charabancs - now thats a word you don't hear of often nowadays. I remember that for the only two holidays I went on as a child -a week in Dymchurch and Herne Bay in a caravan - we went by STEAM train from London and, yes, it always rained! Crikey, our kids don't know their born. I even saw Whitstable being called the new Chelsea by the sea in the press a few weeks ago so things are looking up in that part of the world.
.... am lucky now I live opposite the school where I work and the boys went to school there, but as usual they were nearly always the last ones the school well no worries darling I suppose anything is worth a try hey I may just lucky you never know lady luck may just shine down on me!!! xxxx
..perhaps I may just get lucky who knows 
