I remember this road very well and the fish and chip shop that was further down the road. I grew up in Patcham and went to school on Ladies Mile Road. I now live in Florida USA and have been for the past 50 years. I still remember beautiful Patcham.

In your main picture under Area - Patcham there are three cottages. My grandparents, mother and siblings lived in the middle cottage, with now a stable door, during the war. I remember visiting during 1946 until he died. Grandmother died a few months after I was born. Grandad always gave me fruit cake and read Rupert Bear stories.

On the 2nd of September 1957, about the time of this photo I started at age 15 as a trainee estate agent in the office shown of Eric Marchant for £3 for a five and a half day week! Fantastic happy days working for a fine gentleman estate agent with very high standards.

I remember going into this building as a child with my Mum & Dad when it was run by the Browns as a cafe, then later I worked there when it was 'The Elizabethan' and run by Mr & Mrs Thomas and of course now it is an Indian restaurant.  Who remembers Miss Dix who ran the school in Old London Road on the site where Old Patcham Mews now is?

I attended Marydene Montessori School and knew Miss Dix. There were at most 23 pupils in the school. We used to go to the Elizabethan Restaurant for our lunches. Does anyone have any photos of Marydene?

I was at Marydene School with Miss Dix from 1950 to 1952 approx. I remember we used to go to Patcham Place to play cricket. We used to take our tables outside on nice days. I remember the back garden which had a sandpit covered with a sheet of corrugated iron and there was a swing. Miss Dix's mother used to come downstairs from the flat over the school and do needlework with the older girls. A real treat was to take the mobile Metal horse to the Elms by Salmons where we took it in turns to have a ride on it. I also remember singing round the piano. Each child had their own duster on a peg and at the start of the day we had to dust the classroom. I am also remembering the glass cabinet with sliding doors near the window where the boxes of 'sounds' were kept which were part of our English language teaching. I could go on forever with my memories. I grew up in Vale Avenue.

I also went to Marydene school, from 1968 to 1972. Mandy, I remember you from that time. My father used to take the school photograph every year and I believe I still have copies. I would be very happy to supply you with them. We lived on Brangwyn Drive, on the other side of the road from Patcham village, from 1965 to around 1974. I now have lived in California for 15 years, but I remember my childhood in Patcham very fondly.