South Green Sunday School 1949/50
by David Stokes
I have recently come across these photos of South Green Chapel Sunday School taken in 1949/50; they were obviously taken on the same day but one is dated about 1949 and the other 1950. The chapel was, I believe, on the corner of Outwood Common Lane.
My parents moved into the first prefab in South Green – No. 15 Bullsteds Walk (editor: Does anyone remember where that was?). I was born in 1946, but we moved away in 1950.
The note on the back of the photo of the children coming out is ‘Neil Cridland’s back view’.
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I went to South Green Sunday School from the late 50s to the early 60s – it was a Congregational Chapel as I recall and you could become a Covenantor with a special badge. We lived in Ganels Rd – the first tenants of the new Council houses built there and where my parents stayed until 1994.
That’s lovely! Teresa is my auntie. She lived in London all her life with her very nice Italian husband. Sadly she died a few years ago. So has Eileen, but the other three are around and in their 80s. My mother remembers David Stokes, she says.
I remember the Connollys and used to go to their house. I distinctly remember one of the girls – Teresa who used to look after me as a small boy.
I have photos of myself with her.
Do you know what happened to her ?
Do you remember the Connollys at Oak Farm, South Green, also near Bullsteads Farm, she thinks? My mother is one of the daughters. Thank you for the memories!
The photos bring back memories of Sunday School. Bullsteads Walk was the row of prefabs that faced Southend Road. We moved into number 3 in 1946. The prefab was on a corner plot where Beams Way met Bullsteads Walk and was one of the first prefabs occupied. I am starting to collect any information etc. to do with this estate with a view to creating a history so if anybody has some to share it would be appreciated.
I attended Sunday School at South Green Chapel in the mid 1950’s. It was run by Mr Hewitt who was also my R.E. teacher at Billericay School where I managed to scrape through my GCE ‘O’ level R.E. exam in 1964. I can remember a new extension built on the right hand side of the chapel, probably in the late 1950’s. This housed a couple of small classrooms. I’m not sure of the date when it was all demolished to make way for the large OAP complex on the corner of Southend Road.
Bullstead Walk was the row of prefabs that faced the Chapel and Outwood Common Road.
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