Poverest Road As I Remember It

A Memory of St Mary Cray.

People use to refer to me as Ian Little. Well I was bread and born in 53 Hood
Avenue, St Mary Cray in 1940. At three months old I was taken to my grandmother
Mrs Little at 20 Fordcroft Road. My grandmother passed away on my thirtieth
birthday,

Poverest Road back then was called Sherwood Road. I can remember going up
Poverest road to school and I used to talk to the German soldiers that were
digging a trench on the left hand side as you go past Littlejohn Road, our
soldiers use to shout at me and tell me to bugger off. The German soldiers were
very friendly, I got to know one soldier called Hans. I use to give him an apple
I'd scrumped from the orchard in Kent Road. I lived in St Mary Cray until March
1988, then I moved to Rochester until September 2008. I now live in Birchington.
I feel at home here, because there are a few two bedroom houses down here, just
like the one's I lived in with my grandmother.

Getting back to St Mary Cray, where we lived in the Cray it was known as
Sloppers back then, it was my life, my all, and will always remember it as my
safe haven as a child, when I lived with my grandmother.