Heath Stores

My parents opened a grocery store at the bottom of Hatherley Road in 1960. It had been a corn chandlers before run by the Jennings family. Dad redesigned the shop on "modern " lines as a mini supermarket. I have many happy memories of our time living above the shop. My brother and I would often take the grocery orders to the big houses in Hatherley Road and met many interesting people. We were there when the snow fell and we had the "big freeze" in 1963. That was where I heard President Kennedy had been shot. All formative memories of that time for me. I went to school at the convent at the top of Hatherley road. Every Saturday morning was spent at "Saturday morning pictures" - lots of fun! We seemed to have a lot of freedom and Sidcup was a safe place to grow up.