Camberwell, c.1950
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Photo of Camberwell, c.1950

Memories of Camberwell, c1950

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Camberwell, c.1950

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kate barnes was a perminae fixture at the bottom of grove lane in camberwell she was a fiery lady and if you upset her the air could be quite blue with her colourfull labguage she enjoyed her pint and she often sat by her newspaper stand with her beer and bread roll usually filled with cheese at lunchtime she was still there in the early sixties when she retired the place never felt the same
The one thing that sticks in my memory about growing up in Camberwell was the newspaper stall outside the Hermits Cave pub and the young me being in awe of Katie Barnes (I think that was her name), the 'old' woman who used to sell the papers. She knew everyone's gossip and had a slightly hairy chin!