Sidcup High Street

Just looking at this photo brings a lump to my throat. We lived in Blackhorse Road just off the High Street. The shop in the photo is on the corner of Blackhorse Road. I was 15 yrs old in 1965 and the Beatles were topping the charts and Mods & Rockers were the latest thing! My Dad had a fruit & veg stall at top of Hadlow Road and my Mum did all her grocery shopping in Cave Austin. Fish from Pearce Bros, meat from butchers (there were 3 butchers then to choose from). Ham and cheese from David Greigs. Fresh bread from Tidmarshes on St John's parade. As a teenager I worked in Woolworths in the High Street on Saturdays, it was wonderful. I even got a holiday job in Dorothy Perkins. No shops there any more, it's all very sad, even Wooly's has gone.
We went to St Lawrences RC church every Sunday all of us married there, kids baptised there and sadly parents funerals there. I still feel more at home in Sidcup than anywhere else. I used to play on the Green every day I got the chance, we just called it the Park. I can't believe how old fashioned the people look in 1965 in the photos! I can see the huge clock that overhung the jewellers and the front of what was the cafe. I remember Hansons the chemist and Dawsons the department store (now Somefields). There was a little old haberdashers called Stangers on the corner of Blackhorse Road and the High St. this is now a chemist. There was a time I could walk the entire High Street and name all the shops but some I forget now. Thanks for bringing back so many happy memories - would be nice if there were still some shops in Sidcup.