Happy Hours Of Reading But Also Destruction.

A Memory of Wallington.

So many hours of reading here in this library. The children's section was in the main door and to the right served by the 2 windows shown on the ground floor. I recall taking out every Arthur Ransome title and many others. I was fascinated by the section of the Surrey Iron Railway displayed in the gardens also to the right of the pool against the boundary wall. I wonder if its still there.
Does anyone remember when some miscreants from the Wallington boys grammar school blew in the doors with a homemade fertilizer bomb and when it happened? Early 1960's?
Just down the road was the Cinema tucked against the railway line passing trains would drown out the dialogue but not for long then 3 pennyworth of chips on the walk home to Beddington. Happy times.