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Ladywell Recreation Ground
Ladywell Recreation Ground
  Here is a picture of Ladywell Recreation Ground from a postcard sent in 1909. It doesn’t look any different to how I remembered it in the 1950s.

The Recreation Ground
The Recreation Ground
  In 1956 Ladywell Recreation Ground had been known as such for 56 years or so.

  4 syllable words are obviously too much for the modern day dweller of Lewisham & Catford. Ladywell itself has 3 syllables and surely cannot survive.

   

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