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If not mate then we'll just keep on with the emails and maybe put up anything they may be of interest to anyone on here..i've loads of stories/memories of my youth in and around Kingston Crescent/Stamshaw/Rudmore areas,maybe if we check the old posts on Portsmouth we may be able to solve a few posts between us..i presume you got my emails today describing the Mills Road conundrum..if my mother is up that way i'll get her to take an up to date photo of the place..maybe jog your memory..till next email.

Steve

We lived at 25a and 25b Kingston Crescent, next to Lily’s Woodward. There was a board outside our house Madame Lene, my mother was a tailor.

I heard that the Woodward was the big house and that the person who owned that built our twin houses for his daughter.

Spriggings was the dentist a lovely house with wide stairs leading up to the back door and two lions sat on the top of bottom pillars like the guildhall. The house past the Woodward still had the servants bells in when they pulled it down to build that dreadful office block. The tree from my Mothers front garden is still there.

It was a lovely road, individual houses and such a shame they were pulled down. My favourite house. 3 storeys plus a double basement, nice marble fireplaces.

Ginette