Addlestone In "The Good Old Days !"

A Memory of Addlestone.

i was born in Addlestone at Garfield Cottages, Garfield Lane (off Station Road) long gone now and replaced by the tower block of Surrey Towers. We moved to Courland Road in 1957 and I lived there until I married in 1972. I went to St. Pauls Infants, Juniors and Senior schools and left there in 1964, when I left school I worked in the Co-op Bakery where my Grandad and my mum worked. I then got offered a job in the office as a junior and so started my "Office career" which lasted all my life ! I remember as a child the Co-op Sports Day when if your mum was a Co-Op member you got a ticket to collect your Sports Day Tea BIG excitement !! Lovely "REAL" shops in Addlestone in those days, the big Co-op shop included, shoes, drapery, clothes, electrical, hairdressers, dairy etc., also Billings Butchers, Jarmans Sweetshop and The Regina, Harfields Greengrocers, Goodriches ironmongers, The Carlton newsagents, and in the 60s my favourite teenage dress shops Grivers and Dorothy Perkins !! What a happy, simple life we led in those days, you could get the Green Line bus up to Kingston and London . . . NO computers ! NO mobile Phones !! HEAVEN. . . I remember shopping with my mum and meeting her friends on the street for a chat everyone knew everyone in those days it was a friendly cosy little place to live and I look back on it now as another world that I can re-live in my memories which I wouldnt swop for these modern times ,I was Marilyn Mc Dermott back then and my older brother was Michael.