The Beeches Avenue
A Memory of Carshalton.
We lived at number 20 from the early 50's to 1969 when we moved down to Devon. It was a lovely street to live in with the magnificent beeches all along. Nice neighbours- the Radfords at number 16 and the Huttons at 22. We had a plot of land between us and number 18- Miss Vine- which was sold for building when we moved. As it was, it made a great football pitch but must have been a devil to keep up for my Dad. There was a greengage tree and a cherry tree plus gooseberries and blackcurrants. Now living in Australia I particularly miss those berries.
One memory I have is knocking down our asbestos garage and smashing it to go in the base of a new garage. Luckily I don't seem to have suffered any bad effects.
It always interested me that at one end of the avenue it was "Beeches Avenue" and the other was "The Beeches Avenue."
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