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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => London and Middlesex => Topic started by: Patsy Beech on Thursday 10 December 09 22:16 GMT (UK)
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Hi Folks,
Earlier this year I requested help in trying to find a photograph or information about Caldecot Road School, in Camberwell, and received several helpful replies. However I am still searching for the elusive photograph!
Recently I bought a photograph of what is thought to be a London School which was posted in Camberwell on 8th October 1908, but there is no hint if the school was in Camberwell or not! It was sent to a Mrs. Chaplin, School House, Bramfield, Halesworth, Suffolk, and the message reads -
Dear A, Arrived safely. The train about 20 minutes late. H. met me at the station. Love from Edie.
I think the school was not closed until after WWII and so I have my fingers crossed someone in RootsChat Land might recognise the school building. It was not facing north as the sun is shining on the front of the building, and according to the notice on the corner evening classes were held there! Pity I can't read the remainder of the notice.
I will try and attach a copy of the photo, but I appear to be having difficulty in doing so - don't know why!
Yours with fingers crossed,
Patsy
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I think Kings College Hospital is now on the site. It would be worth contacting their archivist to see if there are photos
Monique
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Hi mc8,
I think you are correct in saying the hospital now occupies the site, and I will try and follow up your suggestion about contacting their archives. I will crack this problem one day, and most likely when I am not expecting to!
Thank You,
Patsy
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Your message has just caught my eye.
I attended Caldecot Road School between 1953 and 1959 and have very fond memories of the place. The photograph you have is familiar but doesn't seem quite right but buildings look different as a child, I suspect most schools of that era looked much the same.
The school was certainly meant to close down soon after I left to go to grammar school but did not do so for many years after, not sure exactly when but it was still there in 1963 because my grammar school used to go there for our domestic science lessons as we did not have those sort of facilities.
Kings College hospital now occupies the site
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further to my previous message
Caldecot Road school closed on 31/12/1997
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Hi,
I thought at first your photo looked a bit like the Marlborough Centre in London (from a different angle):
http://www.kcc.ac.uk/contact/marlborough.php
but as Agran says a lot of these places can look the same...
Have you tried Friends Reunited - someone suggested it to me and I managed to find some old school pictures on there.
Meriel :)
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Patsy
I attended Caldecot school from late 1945 until My dad uprooted us and we emigrated to Australia as "10 pound poms" in May of 1948. The posted photo looks like the old school. The "playground" in front of the school was asphalt and sloped down to the wall where there was a water trough with lead! cups hanging above it.
In winter the playground iced over and we used to slide down it on our backsides, much to Mums horror. The resulting patches only added to others honorably gained.
I have no photos, only memories.
I have not been back to UK since 1948 but I am returning next spring [2011] to try and refresh a few old memories.
I would love to hear from others
Minkara
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Hi Patsy
If you are still looking for a picture of Caldecott School their is one on this
website, www.landmark.lambeth.gov.uk if you click on places, then Loughborough Junction it is on page 4 with the title Bessemer Road, Herne Hill.
Regards
Kate
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Hi there, My mm went to Caldecot and I have (bizarrely) attended a clinic there as an outpatient. Mum agrees that this is not Caldecot Road Primary as it wasn't as tall. I think the building may be the school on Camberwell New Road. Mum attended in the early 50s.
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Hi,
I started at Caldecot School, in 1957 .... I agree, that the photograph is NOT of this school....
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Hi Patsy, With my sister I was a pupil at Caldecott Road School before the war. I started there in1934 up to 2nd. September 1939 when along with many others we were evacuated from London. Thankfully my sister and I still survive and I often wonder if any class mates may be in contact from that era. Coincidentally, I was speaking to my sister yesterday to learn that she has located a booklet about Caldecott Road school which she is mailing to me. Hopefully memories will be further rekindled.
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Hi, I grew up in this area and went to Caldecott Road School from 1951 - 1955. The photo does seem somewhat like I remember, the play ground was surrounded by a brick wall and the building is the right age but it looks bigger than I remember. Someone mentioned Kings College Hospital as being the site of the old school. this cannot be right as I was born in Kings College Hospital as was my brother.
I remember a large entrance hall to the school and very high and echo filled rooms. My best memory is of very large and ornate rocking horse in our classroom that was a treat to ride on if you were good.
We lived in Denmark Hill Road and there were still bomb sites all over the place that we played in and around.
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Hi Kate1001,
Your private message to agran has just bounced back to us as it looks like they have changed email address but sadly we do not know what the new email is ???
Regards
Sarah
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Hi Patsy, The school is still standing in Bessemer road Camberwell, my brother David Cross and I attended the school from 1952 to approx 55/56 when we moved from Flaxman rd off Coldharbour Lane, I remember that at the top of Caldecot road were the entrance/exit gates to King's College Hospital. If you remember there was a very small shop in between the entrance/exit gates, you can see it in some of the old movie pictures on the TV. Of course the old gates & shop have long since gone, but I once went through them in an old Humber Ambulance; (you know the one with the extremely long bonnet), after an accident in Myatts Park on my tricycle. I was about 5 at the time. i remember sitting on the kerb in Coldharbour lane with all the other school children, when the Queen was driven past after her coronation in 1953. Now as per the School--- You may not know that you can type into your browser Bing Maps. when it comes up type Caldecot school SE5 and enlarge the picture enough to get the blue line and a view of the School from Venitian road should then come up. You can move up & down the road using the arrows. Enjoy regards Andy
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Is this what you are looking for ?
http://victorianschools.ibinichi.co.uk/Schools.htmx?schoolid=86
However the postcode differs from that given on the Dof Education website:
http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/establishment/summary.xhtml?urn=100559
Tony Kelly
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Hi there,
I came across your photograph of the school thought to be Caldecot school. it is not Caldecot school but the old Bellenden Road Primary school SE15.
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Hi Patsy,
Caldecot school was still open as recent as 1984 with just 160 pupils remaining.
I have pictures from 1984 - i have also got some video, but cannot appear to upload to this reply?
Regards,
Steve