Dorchester Court c1955, Herne Hill
Dorchester Court c1955, Herne Hill Ref: H410010
Memories of Dorchester Court c1955, Herne Hill
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My Memory of Herne Hill
My father Frank Clarke was the caretaker at Dorchester Court for many years, and we as a family lived in the bungalow which went with the job. In about 1957-1958 he was given the sack, and a friend of the owner was given his job. We were devastated. We had nowhere to live so my sisters and my mother were sent to a 'rest centre' in Camberwell Green. My father was not allowed there and had to get a bed and breakfast. It was awful. We had to share a room with another family. It was scary and still haunts me now. We eventually moved to 58 Milkwood Road, Herne Hill. I left there when I was 18 to get married. I think our house has been pulled down now.
Manor Farm Dairy - 12 Herne Hill Road SE24
My uncle George Bowen and his wife Rene ran the Manor Farm Dairy out of 12 Herne Hill Road. According to my mother who would visit them during the holidays - milk was delivered in those days in big churns pushed on a barrow.
The housewives would bring out their jugs and milk was ladled into the jug. There was only one kind of milk no choice with regard to skimmed or semi-skimmed. Butter came in big blocks and was put on marble slabs and weighed, it would be shaped and cut up on the marble slabs and shaped into rounds and stamped with a pattern of a cow.
There was a shop attached to the front of the house and Auntie Rene was in charge of that - she sold groceries and there were tables and chairs for refreshments. A favourite drink in the summer was ice-cold milk with a dash of soda water.
At the back of the shop was an office where the... Read more
