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A Memory of Lewisham.

The white building on the right used to be called Chiesmans. Trams used to run along the street. In the 1950s in thick smog I had to wait for hours for a bus to eventually arrive to take me as far as Well Hall, where I had to walk from there to home. I was in a train travelling from Cannon Street down to Falconwood on one line when everything stopped because a train from Holborn became derailed on the Lewisham viaduct. Never forget that night. Screams from people injured and some dead from the train crashing into a stationary one on the other line. We alighted from our train to walk along the track led by railway porters with lanterns. Shaken up I and other passengers found a milk bar around the corner from Chiesmans which was still open. Then the long wait for a bus. The walk from Well Hall  took an hour to get home.