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Post War Chingford Mount
Other shops I remember. Trant and Grundy, Star Radio, Jackson and Allen, Leytonia, Malcom Powney, Smiths Books, Welsteads, Lavender House. Owen Aves, Richard Miles, Timms Shoe repairs, Shales, Pollards, Choclate Box. Mount Sports,Wallis Fishshop, National Provincal Bank, Sainsbury's, Silk's Coal Merchant,
Hampton Garage. Coles, The Monument Mason by the cemetary. Pettingals, Norman Trevor. Bartons Bread.Hammets Butchers.Eastern Electric, North Thames Gas, Timber Mart.
Having moved to Chingford from Yorkshire in 1946 I have many memories having grown up and lived here ever since.
Albert Crescent, South Chingford
My memories of Albert Crescent are going to Freeman Hardy Willis, the shoe shop on the corner of Hall Lane, with my mother and sister. Also of going to the greengrocer shop on Albert Crescent, I think it was called Cherrys. I remember the lovely rows of fruit in the middle and the veg on the right. There were cash registers at the back and the men would take the money. I also remember the bus stop outside the public lavatories with the women attendents and the Izal loo paper! I remember the Police Box as well it reminded me of Dr Who's Tardis, which I saw at the Odeon with my friend Eddy and his mum, I believe it was the very first one. Also I recall Rossi's icecream shop on Chingford Mount Road, which sold the most delightful ice cream an those marvelous Rocket Lollys. Pass the lights going towards Chingford Mount Hill was Sainsbury on the left with its old fashioned counters and the Post Office just... Read more
Summers at Larkswood
I lived in Grove Road as a child, and spent a lot of time at Larkswood Pool - my friend and I used to practically live there in the summer holidays. We would get season tickets, so we could go as often as we liked, and go 3 times a day, only coming home for meals. I remember teaching myself to swim there when I was about 8 or 9, in the shallow end. By the end of that season we were jumping from the diving boards, and going down the water slide in every position we could think of. It could certainly be cold at the start of the season, but breaking the ice is a new one to me! Coldest I ever went in was 55F.
I remember teaching myself to dive, as well - eventually even off the top board, which turns me cold now even to think of it, a wonder I didn't break my neck! They were happy days.
Chase Land And Larkswood
My memory is the same as Alan Mowbray. We lived at Leadale Avenue, Chingford and I remember standing at the edge of the pool freezing cold and the teacher tellling us to jump in. I also remember the grotty changing rooms.
New Road School
A message from anyone who might have attended New Road School. My aunt, who was better known as a teacher at New Road School, was called Miss Jones and then Mrs Thornicroft. She is still living in Buckhurst Hill and will be 100 years old in September. If anyone remembers her, she has a wonderful memory and I'd love to send on any messages.
Larkswood Pool
We moved from Forest Road Walthamstow to 34 Leonard Road Chingford in 1953.
I attended Chase Lane primary school and then Wellington Avenue Secondary Modern at Chingford Mount.
We often went to Larkswood Pool and would spend all day there taking our lunch with us.
The school used to take us to Larkswood Pool for swimming once a week during the summer term. We used to travel on a really old bus that had trouble getting up Chingford Mount and sometimes would not make it and we had to disembark and walk back to the school.
I always remember the pristine gardens a the entrance to the pool, which were always neat tidy and never any rubbish.
When did it close ?
South Chingford War Years
I was born in 1939 in the Chingford Mount Hospital. My late father Sam Shapiro (later Shepherd) owned the business Chingford Mount Radio near the corner of Chingford Mount and Larkswood road next door to one of the wartime British Restaurants established in a community or church hall at the corner of Larkswood Road. He used to drive around in a small cream coloured van with the ad "Your Murphy Dealer" on the side. My father used to talk about the day he retreated to a bomb shelter in the back yard of the shop and there was a huge explosion when a German bomb made a direct hit on the shop. He emerged to find a lot of rubble and bits of radios, valves, cords, plugs etc scattered all over the road. Our family migrated to Australia in 1948. I have been back several times since but it a lonely experience unless you can find people to talk to who can remember.
Crystal Radio in Chingford.
Back in the early 1950s my girlfriend lived in South Chingford. I'd stay with her and her parents for a weekend every 8 weeks when I got a pass home from the Hydro Electric Construction job in Scotland. Often we'd go from Church Street where she lived to the shops in South Chingford for Saturday shopping. One shop in particular, a wireless repair shop, had a small sign on the front door, I remember it as if it was yesterday. It read: "Don't tear your hair out over your radio, Bring it in here and let me tear mine"! Denman Lalonde
