Telegram Boy

A Memory of Croydon.

First to Ingram Infants then to Beulah Boys then to Ingram Boys. Remember the Davis Theatre the Flee Pit on the corner of Surrey Street and Scarbrook Road. The Red waistcoat man who sold curtains and the Sarsparilla Van . I was a telegram boy I remember Johnny Barker Geoff Rockliffe Fred Quittenden and Jimmy Richards . Joe Taylor and Len Christopher P. H. \G.'s i The 654 and 630 Trolleybuses. The 42, 16 and 18 trams . Oh yes Croydon from the 30's a marvellous place to be. The Hart Families and the Curds and the Powises. .The ice cream parlour at the bottom of the steps coming from Grants. Turtles the tool shop in Crown Hill and Hammond and Hussey the Tool shop opposite Grants in the High Street. My sister worked at Hammetts ( later Downs ) grocers in Church Street.

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