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26/07/05
Can you play chess? Can you help, please.
Lorn Road resident, Owen Owen, 80 this year and now registered blind, is longing for an occasional game of chess but hasn’t anyone to play against. Can you help, please, or do you know a chess player, young or old, standard not important, with an occasional hour to spare for a game?
Please ring: Owen and Mary Owen (020) 7771 2175
Owen and Mary Owen are no ordinary residents. For a start they’ve lived in Lorn Road for 50 years. In 1975, they took over the Slade Gardens playground from the council and, for 25 years, supervised it daytime and evenings, getting to know personally as many as 300 children at a time, often keeping them out of trouble and intervening on their behalf if they did get into scrapes.
Arising out of that commitment, they opened their own home to children not attending school or needing extra support with academic work.
They are more used to giving help than asking for it! Please try to help.
11/10/2004
wrote:
"Dear readers,
Ekarro Housing Co-operative Ltd is a Registered Social Landlord (Housing Association) and a Fully Mutual Housing Co-Operative based in Stockwell. We own and manage approx 60 properties in the area. In 2002 we negotiated the transfer of 4 properties, comprising 7 flats and one family house, in Groveway and Lorn Road from Lambeth Council. All the properties were formerly short-life and in need of major refurbishments.
We are pleased to announce that we have now started major works to some of these properties. Works started on 4th October 04 to 2B Lorn Road and we anticipate completion in March 2005. This will provide 3 flats for low-rent Social Housing, managed by Ekarro and with LBL having Nomination Rights.
Works to 37 Lorn Road, a 4-bedroom Grade II listed building, will start in March 05 with completion anticipated in July 05. All the works are being funded by Ekarro, no Social Housing Grant is available.
The two properties in Groveway will be developed as Leasehold/Homesteading shared-ownership properties. This is an innovative scheme which will result in 3 flats becoming Shared Ownership and one flat becoming Social Housing rented accommodation.
We are working closely with LBL Conservation and English Heritage to ensure that the properties are refurbished to the highest standards and in character with neighbouring properties.
If you have any old photos of 2B Lorn Road please let me know: we are keen to reinstate the original stonework details if possible.
07/04/2004
Amanda Cornish recommends the Shaftesbury Society who need good condition furniture. They will come and collect it. They will collect tables, chairs, stools, electric cookers (but not gas), crockery, kitchen utensils, three piece suites, two piece suites, sofas, sofa beds, side/coffee tables, sideboards, display units, desks, bookcases, single beds, double beds, wardrobes, chests of drawers, dressing tables, bedside cabinets, blanket boxes, bedding, carpets, rugs, curtains, prams, pushchairs and buggies, high chairs, cots, Moses baskets, bedding, linen and clothes, bed guards, playpens, and toys.
24/03/2004
is trying to trace Eileen Filkins who lived in the pre-fabs that were in Landor Road in the 1960s.
If you can help please .
28/11/2003
wrote:"I wondered if anyone had any information on number 37 Stockwell Park Crescent. My mother bought it either in the late 1950s or early 1960s and was Miss Edith Harteshorne, she married in 1964 becoming Mrs Edith Miles. I was born in 1967 and spent some time there for the first four years of my life until it was sold in 1971.
Unfortunately, my father died when I was seven and my mother died a number of years ago after a long and debilitating illness so I have no-one to ask about the house. I can not even remember how many rooms it had, though I have a couple of old photographs.
Does anyone know what became of the house or even any details about its age/size/history?"
If you can help please .
07/08/2003
wrote: "Does anyone have any information about William Rea - organist at St Michael's in the 1850s/or 60s? He became the Corporation's organist in Newcastle on Tyne in the 1860s and devoted his life to music in the North east. I am researching his life at present. Where would I find church records to investigate further?"
If you can help please .
05/08/2003
wrote: "Can you tell me whether any photographs exist of Rumsey Road, Stockwell, before it was redeveloped as Stockwell Park Estate please? My Grandparents lived at number 8 Rumsey Road until the late 1960's, early 1970's and I am trying to trace the history of their house as best I can, considering it was demolished! I look forward to hearing from you. Many thanks."
If you can help please .
25/02/2003
wrote: "I live in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and I am writing to you in the hope that you might be able to help me in my endeavour to find a photograph of the house my Grandfather Reginald Haynes was born in. I have been searching for a number of years and have exhausted all my resources, so I hope you can help me. My Grandfather Reginald Haynes was born at 2 Stockwell Villas, South Lambeth, Surrey in 1849 and I have started writing a book about our family that started and lived in Surrey. Apparently my family were fairly well off, as Reginald's Grandfather John Haynes Esq. owned quite a bit of land in and around Surrey.
Hoping you can help me with this quest, or maybe you could point me in the right direction to find this photograph I am after."
If you can help please
09/01/2003
wrote " Descendant of a Lorn Road/St. Michael's area resident, Rose (Rita) Evans (son, Raymond 1933-1999), looking for information about surviving family in U.K."
If you can help please .
