Hilly Fields, London, SE4 1LE, early autumn 1962.
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- Hilly Fields is a park sandwiched between Lewisham and Brockley in London. Of particular interest are the prefabs in Adelaide Avenue and Montague Avenue. Prefabs were temporary houses build after WW2 to tackle the housing shortage. Many lasted a lot longer than their anticipated 10 year lifespan. For more details see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabs...
Born in lewisham hospital in 66.I remember the sandpit concrete tunnles and the giant slide.Over the back of the tennis courts was a putting green.
My grandmother was only 1 years old when this was filmed omg this is amazing
Glad you like it. I was about six. That's me in the shorts in the opening shot. 😁
I think the sand pit, slide and definitely the concrete tunnels survived until the late seventies when I first visited. This must have been one of he best locations for prefabs ever!
I hope you enjoyed the playground as much as I did. I'm the fair-haired kid in the light shorts. Not much of that hair left now though. 😂
When I was two and a half we moved to Algernon Road in 1957 and I've lived there since then. I remember the prefabs, and the concrete tunnels in the playground.
You might even be in the film then!
I was born in August 1963 in Lewisham Hospital and Lived on Tyrwhitt Road when I was still a baby In 1963. Age of two 1965. I moved to Tressillian Road near Montague Avenue and at the age of three in the summer 1967 my second Cousin took me to Hilly Fields Park and I was a-bit scared on the swing and the slide's but I enjoy it though!. What a memories I miss Brockley so much...
Hi Errol. Thanks for sharing those lovely memories. I was born in Lewisham Hospital too! However, we moved away from London when I was still quite young and I wonder if I would remember Hilly Fields at all if my dad hadn't taken this piece of film. I'm glad he did, because so many people have enjoyed it.
O.18...that baby girl now at 60..most children at playground were born in 1956..salam with love from Malaya( now Malaysia n Singapore)😔😐✌🇬🇧🇲🇾🇸🇬
Massive 👍's up...thank you for posting 💯%
If you Google Earth the area, you can clearly see the "crop marks" where the prefabs were located along Montague Avenue.
Wow! You can indeed. Thanks for that info.
Ues to live on Tyrwhitt Road long after this though.
18th of July, someone in the sky...
It was SO lovely then. They should have left the prefab there, it would help with the housing problem. I loved them.!
Its much nicer without the prefabs But would love to see before the war that must have been great with railings band stand cafe etc
Now look at it, just an ever expanding ghetto of Lewisham