College
A Memory of Wimbledon.
After attending Kingsley High School in Worcester Park, left there at 14 and attended Pitman's College in Wimbledon, where I learned shorthand and typing. Got me my first job in London at the tender age of 16. Don't remember much of Wimbledon, but do remember a very strict male teacher at Pitman's who would rap your knuckles if you did something wrong.
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Well I did grow up in Wimbledon, in Hartfield rd., but more to the point my sister Pat who was born in 1938 also went to Pitman's college where she also learnt secretarial skills such as shorthand and typing, in fact I seem to remember she won a scholarship to go there. I would only have been 5 or 6 years old at the time but remember the times fondly, I can remember the Pitman's building just up from the railway station at the bottom of Wimbledon Hill. My sister also went on to work in an office in town..'London' but like so many girls of that era was married at 19 or 20 which is when her working 'career' life ended. She was in fact married at the Holy Trinity Church which is down the other end of the Broadway. She married a neighbour two doors up from us, 'Ted' who was in officers training in the RAF, he was dressed in full regalia with peaked cap, tassles and a sword as was his best man, quite a thing for myself, a 9 year old to behold.
Ted and Pat have both since passed on but I remember those days very fondly. On another point we ended up moving from Wimbledon to New Malden around 1962 where a few years later my local and regular Sunday night haunt was 'The Plough' which is just down the road from Worcester Park. This is all quite poignant for me as I've been in Australia since 1974.
Cheers,
Peter Aubrey