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Post by paul on Jun 12, 2016 14:09:03 GMT 1
Hi everyone, i grew up in eden park and played in the fields/woods of harvington. In the woods you can see old ruins of what appear to be
houses? I thought they may of been bomb shelters during the war? can anyone shed any light on this?
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Post by The Historian on Jun 12, 2016 16:22:02 GMT 1
Hi everyone, i grew up in eden park and played in the fields/woods of harvington. In the woods you can see old ruins of what appear to be houses? I thought they may of been bomb shelters during the war? can anyone shed any light on this? There were a series of mansions running all the way down South Eden Park Rd. Where the present car park is today was Harvington mansion. Each mansion had its own Lodge House, most are still there in South Eden Park Rd. If you look on the main site in the photo gallery and select Eden Park you will see images of the mansions. |
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Post by peter52 on Oct 6, 2016 15:30:16 GMT 1
We used to play in the woods too when at Harvington on Sundays when Dad used to play cricket there. There were mansion houses there and Pat Manning's booklet 'The Harvington Estste in Beckenham' tells the full story.
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Post by oldbiker on Jan 27, 2017 14:23:45 GMT 1
We used to catch sticklebacks in the stream that ran through "Harvers" as we called it.
It seemed more exciting to play in there than in the well-ordered nearby Kelsey Park.
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