Stockwell Toilet Watch

LIBERTY STREET AND CALDWELL STREET YOUNGSTERS 1952. WELL BEFORE THE ROT SET IN. A GUN FREE AND SHANKLESS ZONE. EVEN DURAND GARDENS WAS STILL AN ACCESSIBLE PLAYGROUND.

There you go what an obvious horde of happy youthful LIBERTY STREET and CALDWELL STREET hoodlums circa 1952. DURAND GARDENS was only about five minutes walk or so away and we could all go and play there too. Unlike nowadays it didn't have dirty great full height iron railings locked 24/7 x 356. This 1952 photo is 30 years on from the HACKFORD ROAD SCHOOL mafia kidscape blogged a month or so ago. No problem. CLICK ONCE OR EVEN TWICE ON THE IMAGE TO GREATLY INCREASE ITS VISIBILITY. A nice photo of the non hoodlums I grew up alongside. Back then there weren't any young THUSHA KAMALESWARAN dancing kids in STOCKWELL ROAD shops in danger of getting shot and gravely injured for life by utterly brutalised moronic masked-up hoodies on BMX's. No idea where those photographed above all are now. And an adjacent largish field behind FREEMANS backed onto LIBERTY STREET wherein we built extensive adventure camps and played but nowadays its been well and truly built over with million quid apartments.

posted by Ian Cameron aka KILROY WAS-A-HERO @ 21:38