Mr Laughlin's China Shop.

A Memory of Crouch End.

This view of the Broadway shows it along Tottenham Lane where further up on the left was a china shop which was owned by Mr Eric Laughlin, who lived next door to us in Tregaron Avenue with his wife Ellen. They were lovely kind-hearted people and I always think of Mr Laughlin when I hear the word gentleman, he would always raise his hat as he passed by a lady and would stand to attention with his hat to his chest when a funeral passed by. After his wife died in 1972 he became a voluntary driver for the local Red Cross, he always had beautiful cars like Rover P6's and Daimlers. I can still see him in his immaculate blazer just like a real life Nigel Havers character.