Memories

A Memory of Potters Bar.

My mother Gwen Clayden worked at the Ritz cinema during the war years, and spent many evenings on the roof doing fire watch. As a teenager in the mid sixties I remember many shops along Darkes Lane including Woolworths opening (in the late 50's I think) Delmars Record Shop and the Embassy Club. Boddies Sweet Shop, Baldwins Bike Shop and a very old fashion chemist on the corner of Manor Road. Thurleys Toy Shop, Singer Sewing Machines, Mc Fisheries, De Sallas Barbers, Wilsons Menswear, the Post Office in a motor cycle shop and Cobbs Bakers.