East Greenwich My Spiritual Home

A Memory of Greenwich.

I was born at Dyson House Blackwell Lane Greenwich in 1943. My father was still in Burma so I lived with my mother and maternal grandparents. We moved to Selcroft Road but in was too young to know when . My first memories are of tap dancing in Christchurch and of playing in the flooded bomb craters down by river. When my father returned home we moved to Glenforth Street. I went to Annandale Road School and moved to Dagenham when I was 9.
Greenwich is my spiritual home. Indeed i used to come back every weekend and holiday to my grandparents. I returned permanently when I was 15 to nurse my grandmother who unfortunately died in 1960. I married a boy from Haddo House Roan Street in 1962 and went to live in Lee Green.
But I was always coming back to Greenwich when I lived in the UK. Revisiting Greenwich Park and the Maritime Museum . Going to the coffee bar and the cinemas in the area. I even worked in Bartles Dentists in King William Walk saw the Queen once visiting the Royal Naval College. Visited Greenwich market often but of course it's not as it is now. I bought my first music hall outfit in that market. But that's another story.
Have been trying to get a picture of Selcroft Road as it holds so many lovely memories but having no luck. Am doing my ancestory and have had a DNA test so am trying to complete the picture. My name then was Sheila Martin.
Thanks for the memory .