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A Memory of Gerrards Cross.

WE MOVED TO GERRARDS CROSS, BUCKS IN 1950 WHEN I WAS JUST OVER 3 YEARS OLD. I WENT TO TREGENNA RUN BY MISS WATKINS AND ONTO GAYHURST AND MY SISTER WENT TO HOLY CROSS CONVENT.

WE LIVE AT CHURSTON, BULL LANE, GERRARDS CROSS AND MY MUM DIDN'T MOVE UNTIL THE 1990'S.

USED TO HAVE COFFEE AT "CAFE COLLETTE" IN OAK END WAY NEXT TO "TURF & TRAVEL AND WE KNEW TED BOTT WELL AND ALSO THE GRAHAM BROTHERS.

MISS HEMBROW WAS THE DANCE TEACHER AND MY DAD ALWAYS USED TO FILL THE CAR WITH PETROL AT THE COUNTY GARAGE.

SPRINGALL'S WAS MY BARBER AND ALSO MR HOWE AND WE SHOPPED AT MARSHALS, ROFFS, ALDRIDGES, STURLEY'S AND KRISTY'S

THE SWEET SHOP IN STATION APPROACH WAS RUN BY THE "LITTLE GENT" AND WE HAD SHERBET DIPDABS ALL IN THE 1950'S

THE PACKHORSE WAS MY FIRST PUB, WITH JOHN HUTSON BEHIND THE BAR AND POEPLE LIKE DICK CONSTAM, OTTO ROAN, HOOT GIBSON, DENNIS COMPTON AND OTHERS COMING IN ON A REGULAR BASIS WHEN I WENT WITH MY DAD IN THE EARLY 1960'S

FUN TIME IN GX AND STILL HAVE FRIENDS THAT LIVE THERE AND I AM STILL A MEMBER OF BEACONSFIELD GOLF CLUB -- OVER 50 YEARS NOW!

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I remember most of those things, places. I lived at Holly Tree Farm on Austenwood Common. Went to Maltmans Green and my brothers went to Thorpe House. Both still going. My parents used to go to the Jolly Farmer in Chalfont St Peter which those fabulous characters Lucille and Tom Davies ran. The Three Pigeons was the nearest pub though. Used to love sturleys for their really sickly cakes and yes Miss Hembrow taught me ballet and then we had to do ballroom dancing at the village hall opposite pub in the High Street.

Those were the days,
By Simon Leak on Fri Jan 19th 2018, at 1:39 pm
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