Good Old Battersea
A Memory of Battersea.
I was born and bred in Battersea, Firstly we lived in Yelverton road with my Grandparents and I attended Falconbrook School. Then my parents got a Maisonette in Culvert road I then attended Chesterton School. in 1969 I attended Battersea County School where I fell in love, got my heart broken and made a lot of memories some bad some good all part of growing up.
I remember going Saturday morning pictures at the Granada and there was also another cinema we used to call the flea pit it was next to the bingo hall.
Also remember going to Battersea park fun fair all the time it was open, I remember the pie mash shop in Battersea high st.
As I got a bit older I used to drink in the Eagle, Battersea Fair and The Vic on queenstown road .
When I got married we lived for a time on the Winstanley Estate on falcon rd.
We moved to kent in 1980 and although I went back to Battersea visiting relatives but never bumped into anybody I knew.
Since my nan passed away I have not been back to Battersea but I hear it has become a quite posh area to live in now and is nothing like it was when I was a kid.
Lovely to jot down some memories
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Spent many hours at Latchmere swimming pool and will always think of Battersea as home.One Aunt lived at Havelock Terrace, an Uncle in Eversleigh Rd, Other Grandad lived in Peabody Buildings Two aunts and my Grandfather lived at Reform St. Aunt Lou was a Labour Battersea Borough Councillor until Wandsworth took over.
Batterea was the best place to grow up with a caring Council and Battersea park. Very different today.