St Pauls Cray And Grays Farm School

A Memory of St Paul's Cray.

I lived in Broomwood Road from when I was born in 1954 until 1965 and went to Grays Farm Infants and Grays Farm Primary - Happy Days! Teachers I remember are Mrs Tuffley (infants) and Mr Rigg (Primary). I remember sitting outside the Broomwood Pub with a packet of crisps, the milkman Fred Plum coming round with his horse and milk cart and the rag & bone man and his horse & cart - my nan used to give me a bag of rags to take to the rag & bone man and he used to give a cup and saucer or something bizarre in exchange! A treat from the fish shop in Cotmandene Crescent was a packet of smiths crisps from a big jar that had a screw of salt in it ! I bought my first pair of kitten heel shoes from Curtess Shoes for 9 shillings of my christmas money ! I had family, the Macdonalds, at 53 Dawson Avenue which I remember being resurfaced from cobbles to tarmac! I haven't been back for years and expect it has all changed.