A drive through Worcester Park

Saturday April 30 at 2.45 & May 2 at 10am. Worcester Park is straddles the London/Surrey border 10 miles south-west of Central London. Around 17,000 people live here. The drive starts at almost the western edge of Worcester Park in Grafton Road at the bottom of Hanbury's Hill (which nobody local has heard of). The road then becomes The Avenue and passes St Mary's Church, Cuddington. I moved and rebuilt its Lychgate in 2000. Near the end of the road we leave Surrey and enter London. There is a small boundary marker but only pedestrians can see it. Opposite Worcester Park station (used by 3,200 people a day) we turn right into Central Road and proceed through the shops. At the top of the hill the road becomes Cheam Common Road and we continue past the churches until we get to the southern edge of Worcester Park just before North Cheam. The video then restarts at its northern edge, the far end of Green Lane, and goes to the bottom end of Central Road which we saw earlier. A 2017 version of the trip through the shops can be found here: • A drive through Worces...

[@wally10ize]

Over 50 years since I last lived in worcester park. I went to cheam common school in about 1953. I worked part time as a shelf stacker in the supermarket in the old odeon and later in the garden ornament factory on the corner by cheam common school. MY grandfather was ticked off for being inquisitive about the excavations for the nuclear war regional control center in north cheam by the Old Vic. I left the area in 1970

[@chrisamies2141]

We used to call the Grafton Road hill "Parker's Hill." This was in the 1970s and I don't know why it was called that. "Hanbury's Hill" is a name I've never heard of. I grew up in Mortimer Crescent and moved away in 1981.

[@woodentrainseriesofficial9511]

I recognise this

[@chrislascelles1]

Thanks so much for this. Lived and grew up in Worcester Park from 1955 through to 1971. Went to school at Cheam Common Infants and Juniors. Such a long time ago but there are still so may places I remember. I'm extremely grateful to you for posting this and helping bring back may happy memories and a tsunami of nostalgia!

[@SteveDD2]

Thanks, were you a Cheam High School boy?

[@chrislascelles1]

@@SteveDD2 No Steve - after Cheam Common Infants and Juniors I went to Wimbledon County - Later known as Pelham High School. School is now long gone. I was surprised to be watching one of the DIY makeover programmes last year and recognised one of the flats being renovated as my old French classroom in that school. Turn your back for 50 years or so and look what happens 🤣

[@tonyclifton265]

haha! i went to cheam common infants & junior school too! (in the 1970s)..then sutton manor. loved worcester park. caldbeck avenue. still miss it now i live in asia

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