Oh my! I used to live off of Lower Addiscombe Road and had never realised this had happened. I was grown up and left by 1986, but that is truly too close to home. Somehow I have a memory of a boy going missing, but really thought it was in the 1950's. Can anyone shed any light on that for me?
For some reason I thought the boy went to the same school as me. Does anyone know what school Kevin went to?
I keep thinking what could have happened. I know the route and my best guess he was taken into a car somewhere along the way. I think there are a lot of alley ways behind houses in this area, but the dustmen use them so I would have thought they would find anything.
It is odd. The papers do not say what school he went to and everything is all very near Ashburton Park which we discussed on the Tia Sharp thread.
Here is a map. Sissinghurst Road is between Widehurst Road and Black Horse Lane.
http://croydon.streetmapof.co.uk/sissinghurst-road/
I am racking my brains as to where the 7 eleven was but I think it would have been at the end of Blackhorse Lane so his most likely route is down Widehurst Road and at a guess turning left as I think Blackhorse Lane end would be too far down for the 7 eleven.
To get to it you would have to cross Lower Addiscombe Road. That is unless I am wrong and it is sonewhere on the right on the other side where the Co-OP is now?
He was certainly not going far.
Addiscombe station is a fair walk down Lower Addiscombe Road and it was never easy to get to anywhere apart from, I think, Norwood from it. There is a bus stop which would have been in use (12 and 197 buses at that time I would think still, at the end of Blackhorse Lane after the crossing.
The Black Horse Pub was at the end of Blackhorse Road and I wonder if that was stil open when Kevin disapeared. Did they ever ask in there?
Places a lad might get to therefore in the immediate area: IF he was meeting or met up with friends -but nobody saw.
?Blackhorse pub
?Ashburton Park
?Hop on a bus to Croydon or the other way to Norwood.
Someone would surely have seen a hit and run.
Lower Addiscombe Road is fairly busy.