SearchCurrently displaying: 28 results. Clear the search. You can also search our Questions and Answers.You've searched for:Categories: "Streets" xArea: "Patcham" x Search term Filter by Categories Tours (7)Neighbourhood tours (7)Patcham (7) Sort by: RelevanceTitleOldestNewest Once known as Spring Street Please note that this text is an extract from a reference work written in 1990. As a result, some of ... Patcham's main village street Please note that this text is an extract from a reference work written in 1990. As a result, some of ... Development of the old drove road Please note that this text is an extract from a reference work written in 1990. As a result, some of ... Looking north, c.1960 A windmill in 1620 The history of windmills, located in the area of Old Mill Close, spanned a period of almost three hundred years. A ... A place full of music No. 4 Highview Avenue North, Patcham, where Edna (‘Teddie’) Ashton made many friends teaching music from the ’30s until her ... A new house in 1932 Watching the house-building Our family moved to 23 Craignair Avenue, Patcham, around 1932. We used to visit the site of our ... 1930s development These historic photographs were taken in 1930 when the development of modern Patcham was starting. This photograph shows the old ... Sticks up like a sore thumb The beginning and end of the Mackie Estate. Ladies’ Mile clock tower was one of the first buildings to be ... Looking west from the public library Ladies’ Mile Road connects Old Patcham with its newer estates. The first photograph was taken looking west from the Public Library ... View of the estate and the downs Prominent in the middle distance of the first photograph, is the playing fields of Warmdene School, with the Mackie Estate beyond it ... Tillings bus at the fountain A flashback fifty years to the time of the First World War, and the Tilling’s bus waiting at Patcham Fountain ... View across the main A23 The view across the main A23 London Road towards Patcham Fountain, and looking up the hill towards the church, the ... Once again a village street The Old London Road is now once again a village street. The road sign at the right of the photograph ... Examples of early flint work Origins of the cottages, the inn and the fountain The shallow depression in front of the church marks the site of a pond, one of the principal sources of ... Photo tour, present day Photos from the early 1960s Postcards from the early twentieth century Nestling in the Downs Introduction to the area Your editor for Patcham is Bill Maskell. If you’ve got any queries about this area, or can add any information, ... The years following the Second World War A small house in Overhill Drive “I was brought up in Patcham in the years following the Second World War. We ... Walking my girlfriend home from school What great memories I have of Patcham! I can remember walking my first girlfriend home from school (Patcham school at ... Remembering broken biscuits and cheese triangles Click on the image to open a large version in a new window Dairylea cheese on the way to school I lived ... Development initiated in 1931 A new garden estate The development of the estate was initiated in 1931, when in November of that year, George Ferguson, ... The developer: George Ferguson Developer from Scotland Mr and Mrs Ferguson, the original owners of the land, were from Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbright, Scotland, and the roads ... 3,000 residents in 1935 Semi-detached house for £550 The wages for most of the workforce were 1s 1d per hour. Mr Ferguson’s chauffeur earned £4 ... The estate 80 years on The show house The show house for the estate was in Vale Avenue, and there were numerous other full scale advertising ...