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Post by sirpetmic on Aug 20, 2017 20:55:34 GMT 1
I was born in 1938 and lived at 76 Orchard Avenue, Shirley. I went to early school at 'Holly Lodge' primary that I think I remember as an old Victorian Building. Often my mother would walk with me but on a few occasions I rode my 'Fairy Cycle' on my own as she thought I knew the way well enough. I did know the way but not the rules of the road and very nearly got killed as I emerged into the (Penge? Rd.) at full speed neither looking left nor right. It so frightened a car driver that he stopped and made his way back to the school where he gave me a dressing down in front of the school.
I went on to Whitgift School South Croydon and at 18/19 took a gap year at a Beckenham firm called Muirhead, no longer there as it was taken over by GEC. Whilst there I worked in the Facsimile Laboratory under chief engineer Peter Sieber (Muirhead invented the facsimile machine and the CEO, Ray Brown, was the first to use it in his office.)
Recently, i took my grandson to the Science Museum and there on the main floor was the very machine on display in a glass case as a historical piece of technology (I earned a patent on a bit of tech inside it.) I knew then that I was very old. PCM
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Post by paduard on Aug 28, 2017 20:54:08 GMT 1
I was born in 1938 and lived at 76 Orchard Avenue, Shirley. I went to early school at 'Holly Lodge' primary that I think I remember as an old Victorian Building. Often my mother would walk with me but on a few occasions I rode my 'Fairy Cycle' on my own as she thought I knew the way well enough. I did know the way but not the rules of the road and very nearly got killed as I emerged into the (Penge? Rd.) at full speed neither looking left nor right. It so frightened a car driver that he stopped and made his way back to the school where he gave me a dressing down in front of the school. I went on to Whitgift School South Croydon and at 18/19 took a gap year at a Beckenham firm called Muirhead, no longer there as it was taken over by GEC. Whilst there I worked in the Facsimile Laboratory under chief engineer Peter Sieber (Muirhead invented the facsimile machine and the CEO, Ray Brown, was the first to use it in his office.) Recently, i took my grandson to the Science Museum and there on the main floor was the very machine on display in a glass case as a historical piece of technology (I earned a patent on a bit of tech inside it.) I knew then that I was very old. PCM Thanks for that.God Bless. paduard |
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Post by The Historian on Sept 2, 2017 6:10:06 GMT 1
I was born in 1938 and lived at 76 Orchard Avenue, Shirley. I went to early school at 'Holly Lodge' primary that I think I remember as an old Victorian Building. Often my mother would walk with me but on a few occasions I rode my 'Fairy Cycle' on my own as she thought I knew the way well enough. I did know the way but not the rules of the road and very nearly got killed as I emerged into the (Penge? Rd.) at full speed neither looking left nor right. It so frightened a car driver that he stopped and made his way back to the school where he gave me a dressing down in front of the school. I went on to Whitgift School South Croydon and at 18/19 took a gap year at a Beckenham firm called Muirhead, no longer there as it was taken over by GEC. Whilst there I worked in the Facsimile Laboratory under chief engineer Peter Sieber (Muirhead invented the facsimile machine and the CEO, Ray Brown, was the first to use it in his office.) Recently, i took my grandson to the Science Museum and there on the main floor was the very machine on display in a glass case as a historical piece of technology (I earned a patent on a bit of tech inside it.) I knew then that I was very old. PCM Thanks for that.God Bless. paduard I believe Holly Lodge School became Eden Park School. It was demolished a few years ago and is now houses. There are some photos of the demolition in the photo gallery. Look for the Eden Park album.http://www.beckenhamhistory.co.uk/flashNifties/gallery1.html |
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