Childhood

A Memory of Mitcham.

I did get the privilege to revisit Mitcham again this year. The fair green has changed little, there is now a main road running striaght to Tooting Broadway opposite the fair green, where the Bucks Head pub was there is a paved off area and the Old Majestic still stands but is now a cinema.  Can't remember name, I am sure it was once a bingo hall too.  My aunts used to live in Tynemouth Road and living in Swindon, Wiltshire we would travel every year to visit my nan who used to live in Totterdown Street in Tooting.  If anyone remembers the house it was the one right next door to the market and the Avery scales shop.  The Bucks Head pub holds memories for me as my cousin had her wedding reception upstairs.  I don't remember a lot about the day as I was only about six years old.  She married at Christ Church in Colliers Wood.  The room upstairs in the Bucks Head I remember had a pink textured ceiling and drapes all around the room.  Can't remember the colour.  Also there were lights on the walls.  When I popped in there recently after my visit back, there were lights downstairs on the walls, not sure if they are the same as the upstairs has now gone, been converted into a flat.  I was told the room was very unsafe and when my cousin got married there I remember the floor was moving with everyone dancing.  Can anyone remember the room at all? Myself and my cousin Christine were bridesmaids that day and were given little heart lockets, our dresses were made by my aunt Daisy in Tynemouth Road, mine was yellow lace and satin and I had a posy of sweet peas which to today is still one of my favourite flowers.  My aunts no longer live in Mitcham as aunt Daisy  died in 1993, my remaining aunts now live in Bexhill, Sussex.

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