Saturday Mornings

A Memory of Caversham.

I lived in Albert Road Caversham Heights from 1948 aged 5.
Went to school at Hemdean Road infants then on to Caversham Secondary Modern and left there in 1959.
I really enjoyed school, especially maths, history and geography, the geography teacher (Mr Weekes) formed a cycling club and at the weekend we would go for extended cycle rides even in the rain when he would say 'time to cape up boys' ( the cape was a yellow plastic cape you put over yourself and the handlebars of your bike.)
Science was another subject I enjoyed. Mr Vanborne was the science master - he allowed a chum of mine, Robert Little, to take the film projector and epidiascope around to different classes and set it up for them, a good intro to the career I entered after school - electronics as a Radio and Television engineer.

Saturday mornings often meant a visit to the barber shop on Caversham Bridge for a short back and sides, then on to the Regal cinema for the children’s films complete with a very itchy back from the hairs from the haircut!!
Into the teens and a paper round, based again at the paper shop on Caversham bridge, 10 shillings for Monday to Saturday and half a crown for Sunday. A trades bike was supplied to carry the papers plus a lamp when the mornings were dark. My round was Albert Road, Highmoor Road, Matlock Road, Buxton Avenue, Darrel Road and Ilkley Road.
TO BE CONTINUED

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