Arding & Hobbs And Granada Cinema
A Memory of Battersea.
I grew up in Bolingbroke Road in a prefab on Wandsworth Common until I was about 10 and then we moved to Tooting. I went to Honeywell Primary School. My brother and I were always on Wandsworth Common playing and watching the trains go by. I remember going to Northcote Street market with my mum. She used to load up with vegetables from Georgie May. I remember going to the Saturday morning pictures in the cinema in Northcote Road but later it closed and it became a Tesco which my mum liked. As kids we would play in Arding & Hobbs and get chased out by the staff.
We went scrumping for apples and I remember we had a guy when it was Bonfire Night and stood outside Wandsworth Station asking for a penny for the guy. I remember the laughing policeman in Clapham Junction Station, my brother liked him. I remember going to the Granada Cinema with my friend and seeing Charlie Chaplin in a film.
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My name is Bob Robson. Me and my brother also went to Honeywell from 1964 to 1967, when I went to Spencer Park secondary. We lived originally in Morella Road, opposite Wandsworth Common, then to Manchuria Road off Clapham Common and then on to the Doddington estate down by Battersea Park when that was built in the late 60's. I well remember Northcote Rd market and Arding and Hobbs (the amount of times I got stood up waiting to meet a date !).
Very happy memories