Tooting Broadway

A Memory of Tooting.

I moved to Coverton Road SW17 around 1962, my grandparents lived in Gilby Road, I played for hours on the grounds of the old St Georges hospital and attended Sellincourt primary school. The head mistress was Mrs Wooley and I'm sure there was a Mr Pritchard, but it's all a long time ago. I remember a lad called Steven Ellis, because then we shared the same surname, a girl called Caron Ford, an Irish family lived oppersite us with a son Desmond who used to Irish Gigg all the way to school. Next door was Warren and his sister (Maureen I think). My best friend then was Terry-Ann, I wonder if any of you people are still out there. At the top of Coverton Road was the fruit stall owned by Rosie, the smallest oldest lady I had ever seen!. The number 64 bus used to stop at the top oppersite her stall. We moved to Morden in 1971 and I never went back to Tooting I don't know why, children were not so well informed then!! Fond memories if a little hazy