Parsons Mead, Norbury, Winterbourne, Selhurst, Top Rank Suite

My grandparents moved to Parsons Mead when grandad was transferred to Croydon Co-op. My mum, Eunice Moat, was head girl at Selhurst in about 1937. I went to Winterbourne In the infants we learnt the maypole dances. My partner was Trevor. The Junior girls were on the ground floor, the boys on the first floor. Classmates were Christine Ogilvie, Susan Hoppy, Lynda Payne, Christine Sendjak and Christine Tomashevski. The headmistress Miss Bray had a Morris minor. An early memory is of the donkeys at Kennards. Also a Croydon festival or Son et Lumiere with a re-enactment of a fire. Dancing on Tuesday nights at the Suite and my first burger at the Wimpy in Croydon.