Home Will Always Be Denmead

A Memory of Denmead.

My mum still lives in Denmead she is 100 years old,I recently stayed with her for few weeks due to my brother going into hospital .. The memories of my childhood came flooding back . Playing around the lanes and all of the walks we went on as children , the different shops there now all gone . There was Nethercotts the Top of Anthill The tuck shop on the green paper shop the cobblers Buttons hairdressers Restalls Butchers and groceries with the post office Pratts the butchers. hardware shop, Gregories and the shop at the top of Mill road I cant remember the name of that one , we lived on Anmore road and there used to be a bakers past shrover hall . My dad used to to run the Army cadets . Do you remember the blacksmiths on the way to school just past the White Hart ? The number 39 bus ah great memories ,I could go on but maybe next time .. I would love to know all the names of the shops we had in Denmead , I do remember when the Co- op came and Tarents and the Chemist oh and Mrs Goulds shop down Anmore road where I used to live .. My name then Mary Jenkinson .. my eldest brother still lives with mum Michael unfortunately our youngest brother David died earlier this year , my youngest sisters name is Shirley .. my school years 1950 - 1957 at Denmead then onto Cowplain Comprehensive .