Swimming Pool /Pond, My Childhood

A Memory of Burgh Heath.

We always went to the Gallion swimming pool because it was cheap, maybe one penny ? I don’t remember. But the Sugar bowl was expensive for us, a half crown, I believe . We used to go to the pond to get spawn, which we took home, much to my mother’s despair 😬 we had frogs in the garden.
I worked in the haberdashery shop called ´Freida’ (or Freda??!) on the parade when I was 14 years old , all day Saturday. It was run by a Scottish lady called Mrs. Mackintosh. She didn’t pay very well !! I also worked in a kind of factory at the top of the parade. They made road signs. I don’t remember the name.
If we wanted to go to London, we took the Green Line, a single decker green bus, which took us to the centre of London.
Behind the parade were many houses, where we lived and further on, there was a farm. The farmer was Mr. Roe. We called him Farmer Roe. We called road that led to his farm, the lane. I remember one winter when there were deep snow drifts down the lane, as we said.
We used to play on Ballards Green, where there were bushes we could make stick houses in. Etc etc