Coffee Stall at The Cricket Green Run by Lil Inglis Aka James
In all my years of looking at books and memories of Mitcham there is no mention of my mum's coffee stall at Mitcham Cricket green opposite Burn Bullocks pub also known as the Kings Head. As a boy I remember being with my mum as she worked on my uncle's coffee stall. She would tell me that of all the famous people that would stop and have their teas and hot pies and sandwiches as well as guardsmen and also at Derby races time as there was a horse trough there.
We lived at Bull Yard and my Gran, Louisa Inglis or known as Granny James lived at the farmhouse at the corner of Frimley Gardens. My dad worked for my gran on her pig farm in Sutton. I was a pupil The Star school from 1941-1947 and went to Western Road Secondary school. People always laugh at me when I say the actor Johnny Briggs (Coronation St's Mike Baldwin) used to go to The Star school, am I right or wrong?. We all used to play in the huge hollow trees on the cricket ground - I understand they have now gone - I believe due to road widenning. I would love to hear from anyone who remembers my mum's coffee stall.
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