Shops.

A Memory of Bedfont.

My sister Christine lived in North Road from babes till 18-19 years old. I can remember the parade of shops, the chemist, Clair's hairdressers, Combes the bakers, Pickerings hardware store. There was a shop where we bought our shoes and I'm sure our school uniform. I remember Grants fish and chip shop, the bank, first supermarket, Budgens, Pollard the greengrocer, the launderette where Ruth Collis and my foster mother Margaret Ellis used to work and last Gerrards the greengrocer where I worked, this was the late 1950s well into the 1960s. We both went to Bedfont infants and junior and then on to Longford school. I can remember having to wear a blazer in the infants. What great times were had, we went to the 'rec every day in the summer hols, lunch sixpence and drink, had to be home at five, the paddling pools were great.