The Hermits Cave

A Memory of Camberwell.

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