Co Op Horse Stables At Cowpers Row On Brixton Hill
A Memory of Clapham.
Does anyone remember Cowper's Row at the top of Brixton Hill opposite the "Telegraph' pub? There were two cobbled lane's, one Cowper's Row, the other I forget. Rouplell Park estate occupies the area now. On saturday mornings when I was 12 I would meet our milkman , Stan, at the stables there. I would prepare the feed bag for his horse whose name was Purcell whilst he connected him to the milk cart. I helped him on his round for two shillings (I think). Purcell would always be at the right spot for Stan when doing his round. Also at the top of Brixton Hill opposite New Park Road there was a big white stone mileage marker, a leftover from the days of the Mailcoach.
Living next door to me back then, I remember, was an old lady who told me that when she was a young girl she would walk across the fields to sit on the bank of the river Effra.
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I lived in Sulina Rd and my brother & I would buy a hot halfpenny bread roll from Cloutings before school.
Cloutings was on the corner of Morrish Rd which used to be called Mill Lane. Cloutings originally baked bread using the flour from the old Mill in Blenheim Gardens. Long time ago! I used to play in that old Mill with a schoolfriend called Peter Hugget when it was all overgrown. Peter's father owned a flower shop in Blenheim Gardens together with the 'Flower Box' at the top of Brixton Hill.
My first job was with 'Lucas of Brixton Hill.'
I remember riding on the trams down into Brixton, and the Clifton cinema near Arodene Rd.