Eltham, High Street And St John's Church 1961
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Memories of Eltham, High Street and St John's Church 1961

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On the right of the picture is Eltham Corn Stores, a Pet shop. My mother worked there for many years. Next door there was a Chinese restaurant 'The Three Yen' run by a Chinese lady who claimed to be Scottish! We knew her as Auntie.
I often used to go dancing at Eltham Swimming Baths in the winter with my boyfriend, Frank Fellows, who I later married in 1954. I remember the bandleader Ted Heath performed there. So many happy memories. Lived in Mottingham Village, I was then called Sylvia Street. My father owned a shoe repair shop.
I have this framed print displayed on my landing wall. When I pass by and stop to look at it, I remember the swimming bath just below the church where I used to go dancing in the 1950s.