West Ewell memories
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A Place Worth Remembering
A basket of freshly cut potatoes,
In it goes to a hot frying pan
Till it turn into golden in colour
Basket of aroma of fried chips.
Slices of seasoned and boneless fishes,
Dropped into a pan with deep hot oil
Just 3 mins for to float and cook
Savourly juicy fish you taste and never forget.
From this row of shop you find
Fish & Chips not all it served...
Malaysian Fried Rice,
Is one of dish you will loved
Remember! it is spicy.
Enjoy your food worth paid for
and a place most remembered
Helper
During the war my uncle was in the army with a man called Bert Sprake. When they got out of the army Bert opened a butchers shop in the parade almost opposite Plough Road. I used to go into his shop and help him make the sausages. I never got paid for it but it was great fun. I lived in Oakdale Road for the first 19 years of my life so that shopping parade I just loved. I used to wait for the 468 outside the sweet shop knowing my nan would get off the bus and I would get some sweets. I look at the parade today and make no comment.
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Happy Days
Spent 3 very happy years on the nursing staff, made many friends, who I lost contact with.
SRN, RMN
I arrived at Horton hospital as a young nurse, from Guyana, and was given the best nursing education. I moved to the USA, The education I received at Horton was second to none, and I am eternally grateful.
Baldwin's Butchers Shop
I have this photograph on the wall as it reminds me of my dad, Arthur Edward Elson. He was born in Mill Lane in 1914 and worked as a 'butcher's boy' for Baldwin's which is just visible on the right of the photo.
He delivered meat to customers by bicycle which is how he met my mother, she had come down from Durham and was working for Doctor Eileen Stevenson who lived at Holmfield in Cheam Road.
He worked there until he was called up to fight in the Second World War, in fact they continued to pay a percentage of his wages to his mother Alice, my grandmother, for the duration of the War as she was a widow and survived by taking in washing.
The first Elsons to arrive in Ewell were my great great great grandparents John Elson, a widower from St Martha on the Hill and his wife Sarah Longhurst. They were married in Ewell on 29th December 1793.
Wedding Day 1958
This is the church that my parents were married in, April 12th 1958. I haven't seen it since 1974, when we emigrated to Australia. Their wedding photos were taken in front of the church, with family members, many of whom are no longer with us.
Department of Building/ Plumbing
Department of building second year of a four year plumbing apprenticeship. As an sixteen year old just starting work Ewell Tec set the standards that I have tried to keep to all my working life.
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