Childhood Memories From 1947 To 1956

A Memory of Morden.

I lived with my parents and sister at 13b Abbotsbury Road, which was a top floor flat owned by a Mr Carsberg, who ran a carpet shop. We both went to Poplar Road school and my sister went on to the Willows.

I remember the Milk Bar in Abbotsbury Road, because we could look across the street from our flat.  I wonder who also remembers Hawes Furniture Store, Perrins Record Shop, Bata Shoe shop, along with Martins Bank (that's a name you don't see now), all in London Road.  We moved to Colchester in Essex in 1956.  I then moved to Clacton when I married and now live in Penryn, Cornwall.

We always spent our summer holidays in Cornwall and I remember especially catching the Tube at around six in the morning to Paddington, for the Cornish Riviera Express, to Truro!

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