Where were you born?

[Wilf Shergold]

Quarry Road, Old Town. Just along the road from some of the Fluck (sic) family, scruffy bunch they were. D Dors wasn't one of them.

Interestingly it doesn't seem like anyone comes from S E London, Old Kent Road / New Cross / Peckham etc. When I were a lad it seemed most of Park N and S had arrived from there. Maybe their allegiances have stayed with Millwall, Charlton, Palace, Hammers etc.

[chalkies_shorts]

Quarry Road, Old Town. Just along the road from some of the Fluck (sic) family, scruffy bunch they were. D Dors wasn't one of them.

Interestingly it doesn't seem like anyone comes from S E London, Old Kent Road / New Cross / Peckham etc. When I were a lad it seemed most of Park N and S had arrived from there. Maybe their allegiances have stayed with Millwall, Charlton, Palace, Hammers etc.

I think you'll find a fair proportion of Park South and North were born in Ireland like my folks were.

[Nemo]

Born in PMH, grew up in Park South. Nobody ever believes me because I speak like a proper posho.

[Wilf Shergold]

I think you'll find a fair proportion of Park South and North were born in Ireland like my folks were.

Maybe, but this is what I remember:

After the completion of Penhill in 1955 the builders moved onto Walcot followed by Park South a year later and Park North a year after that.

By 1960 Walcot was completed and Park North and South by 1962.

In addition to these local authority estates two new private housing estates were also built in the 1950s at Walcot West and Lawns.

By 1961 about 13,000 people had moved to Swindon from London and the population had grown to over 100,000.

From the Swindonweb site.

[Joycie]

Born in PMH, grew up in Park South. Nobody ever believes me because I speak like a proper posho.

I took a wee trip down there, met a few folk kicking about. It's as rough as a baby's arse.

[THE FLASH]

Salisbury.....Oddstock hospital.

[bassett boy]

Jarrow then when 8 the canny lad moved to Penhill

[ghanimah]

PMH

[Bumpkin]

Borough of Thamesdown.

[Mother Brown]

Maybe, but this is what I remember:

From the Swindonweb site.

Was there any objection from the Parks nimbys against the Walcot/Lawns developments 

[Victor Mildew]

Salisbury.....Oddstock hospital.

That figures...

[Arriba]

I think you'll find a fair proportion of Park South and North were born in Ireland like my folks were.

My mother inlaw and her siblings would fall into that catagory. Came over here early 70's for work and settleed here.
Plenty of Londoners did too along with Polish folk

[chalkies_shorts]

My mother inlaw and her siblings would fall into that catagory. Came over here early 70's for work and settleed here.
Plenty of Londoners did too along with Polish folk

My folks came over to London in the early 50s and lived in a shitheap flat and were offerred the chance to move to Swindon with a 3 bed houseand a garden - no brainer really. My dad had no oblections to Wealcot or Lawns as he was a labourer and these developments along with Nythe / Dorcan paid his wages.
A lot of the Poles came from Austria and other countries where they had been displaced after the war.

[wokinghamred]

PMH

[fatbasher]

Jarrow then when 8 the canny lad moved to Penhill

How long did t take you to walk?