Surrey Lane

A Memory of Battersea.

My mum Vera Thurgood, eldest of 6 children was born 1914 at 96 Surrey Lane. Grandad James, married to Katherine was a coal merchant with 12 work horses in the back yard. He used to give me rides on them in the yard. The laundry, Sunlight, I think, was next door. I spent many happy days visiting my grandparents especially when grandad came home on a shire horse with sacks of cockles and winkles to have with our tea. A beautiful house, sadly demolished-a sacrilege.