Hamsey Green - a walk to understand its history

Come with me on a walk & talk tour of Hamsey Green, South Croydon!
This is an area I know very well. It was my family home and I spent my early adult years there. Despite it seeming like somewhere you simply pass through as part of a journey, it does have an interesting past. Come along and learn about Hamsey Green 😊.
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Links referred to in this video:
Stanley the Duck on BBC Nationwide: watch/?v=433...
Hamsey Green Primary School Virtual Tour: player.vimeo.com/video/430076489
Warlingham School website: www.warlinghamschool.co.uk
The Bourne Society: bournesoc.org.uk
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[@ianoneil2508]

Worked in the Coop back in the late 70's (77/78). Was South Suburban Cooperative Society (SSCS) back then. This was at the time the store was being modernised / made into the store it is today. Remember Woolies next door. Think there was a hardware shop opposite. Happy times

[@philswallow]

Ah yes, I remember the SSCS now. I remember it being quite a bit smaller then, and for some reason I remember the machine that sliced the ham/bacon joints 😂. Sanderstead Supplies was the hardware store I think, mid-way down

[@alexwatson5507]

Walked there across country from Biggen Hill. A lovely hike, 8/10 miles. Through countryside the whole way.

[@philswallow]

Sounds like a nice hike!

[@wendygreenwood8638]

Well that was a trip down memory lane!! Spent the first 25 years of my life in Wentworth Way and Hamsey Green shops were our local shops. I went to Atwood Primary and then Riddlesdown, which was annoying at the time considering Warlingham School was at the top of our road! I remember fairs in the field where the astro turf sports fields are now. Fine Fare with Green Shield stamps, the Co-Op with its dividend stamps, good old Woolworths where a lot of my pocket money was spent - and the Post Office where (if I remember correctly) you could put aside enough wool to make a jumper or whatever, then buy a ball or two as you needed. I also remember the smell of the dry cleaners; good to see it is still there. Going to check out your other videos now! Thanks.

[@philswallow]

I’m glad you enjoyed it Wendy, lots of viewers enjoy the nostalgia trip! 😊

[@guyj3025]

A wonderful walk down memory lane, we must have been contemporaries as you remember it exactly the same as i do, even down to the infants school changing to a middle school part way through my being there, as i recall it meant we spent an extra year there and went directly in to the 2nd year at Warlingham.

[@philswallow]

I think you are right, our memories haven’t let us down!

[@lisa5707]

I really enjoyed this, grew up in Hamsey Green. Moved to Canada when I was 10, so bought back many memories. Hope to visit someday soon! Thankyou!

[@philswallow]

Thanks Lisa!

[@carolyntolson6735]

Just discovered this channel - great nostalgia-fest! Do you remember Moody's toyshop on the Express Dairy parade. (I was born in '57, lived Wentworth Way, and went to Atwood CP.)

[@philswallow]

Glad you found it, Carolyn! Now you have mentioned it, I do! 😁

[@TimothyFrench]

Nice tour. I joyed your commentary.

[@philswallow]

Thanks mate!

[@77jazzbass]

My other half runs Pinks Funeral shop opposite the Coop in Hamsey Green

[@MrRowntree27]

Great video, very nostalgic. I stumbled across it while looking up the video rental shop (now DN Marble), which, sadly you skipped over in your commentary. So many happy memories of being taken to that place as a kid.

[@philswallow]

Thank you and sorry! On that point though, I may revisit some of these locations this year and do a 360° version set to a soundtrack so that viewers can then choose their angle and pause, looking in any direction at any point - it's on my list 😁

[@andystlaurent8262]

I think it was Kingswood Chemist in the 1970’s & 80’s. It got changed to boots later on

[@philswallow]

Kingswood sounds right due to the area 👍🏻

[@michaelwduffy]

AWESOME VID PHIL!!!!! Keep up the incredible work my friend !!!!

[@philswallow]

Many thanks! 🙏🏻

[@ludgang5]

I remember Express dairy had a milk machine outside where you could buy a pint after hours

[@philswallow]

I do not remember that, but it sounds cool (no pun intended!)

[@alisonwhite7271]

Hi Phil. Loved a walk down memory lane! I remember that the children's clothes shop was called Elaine's. There was a little shop over the other side called Cobwebs, where my first "big bike" came from. Unfortunately our family didn't own the green grocers, our mum and Lynne used to work there. At the time it was owned by David something. Hope this helps a little.

[@philswallow]

Thanks Alison!

[@debbiebeck9142]

Another brilliant video Phil! Lots of memories from working in NSS as a teenager to retrieving tennis balls which flew across the road into our garden from the school. The betting shop that my grandad used to cycle to each week and the shoe shop where Hazel would give me free shoes for dressing up. It was a good place to grow up…

[@philswallow]

Thanks Debbie, I completely agree, very fond memories 😊

[@christinemandley8408]

Hi Phil great video. The clothes shop on the corner was Elaine's. The sweet shop before Forbes was Wheelers. Before NNS was Trevor's newsagent. The card shop was Tony Lockes ( a cricketer) then Jeffries then Moodys. Ritters was the shoe shop and Leslie's was the green grocers. Hope this brings back memories.

[@philswallow]

Yes!! That’s it, thank you Christine. Ritters I remember very well too. Glad you liked it 😊

[@juliealderson6489]

Love all the information you give us. X

[@philswallow]

Thank you Julie! 😊

[@X-HyperlapseTravelChanne-wj5or]

Nice! Well thought and made video! Kudos to the creator's hard work to bring us awesome video to watch!

[@philswallow]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@andystlaurent8262]

Nice video, brought back a ton of memories even though it's changed a lot. I remember Woolies (Woolworths) there & a Boots Chemist if I remember correctly. Lynn Bradstocks family used to owe a greengrocers store at the end of the shops down by the street you used to live on. I remember we used to go to the NSS Newsagents at school lunch times for sweets & soda. I can't believe Waterman's the cleaners is still there, also the fish & chip shop & a bookies.

[@philswallow]

Cheers matey, I'm not sure we ever had a Boots but can't remember the name of it. Ah yes, I remember Lynn at the greengrocers now. Glad it brought back some memories!

[@edtough]

Very interesting. Just one correction: it was Circle K, not 7-Eleven. 7-Eleven was in Selsdon.

[@philswallow]

Ah yes, of course! I should have remembered bearing in mind I would have shopped there occasionally, thanks for letting me know 👍🏻

[@XHyperlapseTravelChannel]

Glad to see a good quality video! So awesome! Big like! Returning viewer here! Nice!

[@philswallow]

Many thanks!

[@grahamlane9225]

Great video Phil, bought back lots of memories. As you know I also did a paper round from NSS newsagents and my first Saturday job was in the Co-op. I want to know when the 403 bus became red instead of green !

[@philswallow]

Thanks Graham, we have both walked those routes many times! Very good question, I found this: bus-routes-in-london.fandom.com/wiki/London_Buses_route_403 so I think sometime in the mid-late eighties?

[@andrewhunt7460]

I lived in meadway from 1956 until about the late 60’s went to the three schools in tythe Pitt. Shaw Lane , you mentioned the airfield down Kingswood lane , which we played in for years, there were two air raid shelters on the left side of the hanger which was painted black, there was as a large crater to the far left side ( about 1000 yards away ) there was also another shelter down Kingswood lane before the turning to the airfield

[@philswallow]

Do you know if there are any signs of them now Andrew, or are they likely to have been removed after the fire?

[@andrewhunt7460]

@@philswallow I know they have all been removed, as I brought my family up to show them where I grew up about eight years ago, even the bomb hole had been filled in and no signs for the air raid shelters

[@philswallow]

That's a shame, but good to know, much appreciated.

[@carolineeames5079]

I got run over outside warlingham school! 😮😆

[@philswallow]

😳

[@ramzimusallam5143]

I bought my first new car, a red Rover 400, from Leathwoods in 1996!!

[@josmith6684]

bloody hell 👀left in 1994 it’s so different

[@sirjacoo]

Very nice 👉

[@sophieyoung2411]

there is a lot of history on 266 tithepit shaw

[@philswallow]

Hi Sophie, do tell!

[@josmith6684]

and were is the pub 😂😂😂

[@philswallow]

Hmm, to be continued!

[@josmith6684]

@@philswallow 😂😂

[@josmith6684]

were is the wood shop

[@philswallow]

Sanderstead Supplies? Long gone! It's been a few things since it left

[@josmith6684]

@@philswallow sad 😞

[@leonardsanders2927]

how do i send you an attachment?

[@philswallow]

You can email me at [e-mail], thanks