Genealogy Chat

Hi Jacqueline
We lived near Charlton football club ground.

Spent many a happy time at the Lido swimming pool off shooters hill .

If we couldn't have the money to get into the big Lido then we would splash around in the baby's pool near the swings section .

Most of my paternal grandmothers family came from the Greenwich and Deptford area and were barge builders on the Thames .

I went to Askes girls School at new cross in the late 1940, s . Although we don't live in the area now I still have family that do, so it's very much old stamping grounds for both OH and I.

I was born in the British Hospital for Mother's and Babies in Samuel Street Woolwich, also sadly demolished.

My Mum worked in the new Greenwich District Hospital. It was the first hospital to have elevators.

If anyone is interested there is a facebook group
The real woolwich community for real community people

Lots of old photos and intersting tidbits.

Oh wow lady Kira ,so was I

It was known as Wood Street when spoken about . Mum was determined I would be born there but they had just moved to sidcup into a new build house so were out of the area . Mum was naughty and gave her family home home address at Charlton as her address . We eventually moved back there anyway .

We still have our business in Charlton.

My three times great grandmother's first marriage was in St Luke's Charlton.
And I have lots of history in Greenwich as her father was aGreenwich Pensioner.

Mum and dad married at St Luke's too on dec 25th 1929

All 8 of us kids were christened there too

Three sisters and two brothers also married there .

My hubby is catholic so we married at Our Lady of Grace in the top road at Charlton going along to Charlton Standard

Shirley & LadyKira,
memories flooding back! I was born in St Alphages, baptised at St Lukes and my sister was married there. Spent many a day in the Lido in the park (can't remember the park's name!) which ran parallel to the road we lived on. We would go off in the morning with a packed lunch and spend all day there. It was free for children in the morning and 3d for the afternoon session. Weren't we lucky to have such freedom as children?

We did Potty

We were brought up with lots of warnings of not to talk to strangers and never get in anyone's car but then sent off for the day in the summer holidays not to come home till after 4.30. With no watches we would have to ask strangers for the time!
Getting sent off with a picnic meant jam sandwiches which on a hot day the jam would soak into the bread and it would be soggy . I hate soggy , when money was tight in the 1940's breakfast would be bread and milk with sugar !! Hated the slop . I would prefer toast even if it didn't have marge on it . Dripping was fine with me with the jelly too from the Sunday roast and salt and pepper ,delicious !!!

Just reading this post and saw that you went to Aske's Shirley, so thought I would say hello to another Old Askean. I was there from 1952-1959. I occasionally get to Old Askean meetings. Do you ever go back ?

Hi Vera

Yes indeed I was there from 1948 to 1952. should have stayed till 1953 but money was tight in the family . My elder bros went into the Air Force to do his National Service he was talked into signing up for 9 years 5 in and 4 on reserve.

Folks werent happy with him . I was needed to leave school at 15 and go to work to replace his family money input .

Miss Dyson wasnt happy to let me go as the parents had signed to say I would stay to 16 but I was let go .

Yes i am still in touch through the old girls association . was on the committee for 5 years but am now just a member

OH and I go to to the Annual General meeting and Dinner every year at the Blackheath Golf Club Eltham. Maybe we have seen each other without realizing we are also genes members

Hi Shirley

What a coincidence. Because of distance and other commitments I've only made the dinner at Blackheath GC once, the first or second year it was held there. I'll certainly try to get there next year.

I have a picture in my mind of a Shirley who has been at various meetings - I wonder if it is you I am thinking of.

Vera

I have my grandmother listed as unpaid domestic on the 1939 register here. Has anyone any idea why she would be unpaid, or would she be a volunteer? Thank you

I have my grandmother listed as unpaid domestic on the 1939 register here. Has anyone any idea why she would be unpaid, or would she be a volunteer? Thank you

i think housewives were listed as unpaid mine are on the 1939 reg

a few london hospitals were workhouses lambeth hospital where my children were born was a work house i only just found that out

Ann -

As Malyon says, housewives were listed as "unpaid, domestic" or "unpaid, domestic duties".

Do you mean that a hospital was your grandmother's address? (Most of this thread is about hospitals in the Greenwich area.)
If so, without seeing the record, it sounds as if she was a patient there, rather than a hospital domestic.

It would be easier to give you an answer if you gave us the details so we can look at the record.

Ann -
if you look at the column immediately to the right of her name (assuming you're able to see the image of the 1939 record), if it says P, then she was a patient.
If it says S, she was a servant or employee.