Sally Lunns Restaurant And Prudential Building

A Memory of Ilford.

I was born in Gantshill in 1947 and my formative years were spent all around the area. I remember my meeting my mum for lunch at Sally Lunns sometimes during the school holidays as she worked at the Prudential Building. I went to Gearies girls school which no longer exists and when I left school I worked at a hairdressers shop in Cranbrook Road called Betta Waves which was run by an old couple called Miss Davies and Mr MacKenzie. I can remember most of the memories that people have been talking about. Could anyone remember there being a blacksmiths in Barkingside? my grandmother used to take me there. It was on the site of the police station and opposite Banardos?