My Childhood In Leytonstone..

A Memory of Leytonstone.

I was christened in St John's church in 1935. I was born in Harvey Road, and have been back so many times visiting my old school Davis Lane, the old Red LIon was at the end of our street and on the other side was Walls Ice cream, I remember the three wheeled trike and the box in front and them selling the ice creams and the lovely orange ice lollies. My mum worked at Whips Cross Hospital, also the Green Man pub before the war. I remember Bermans and Woolworths, the Rialto picture house, sadly we were like a lot of others, bombed out. When I have been back my gran had chickens and we had sun flowers growing on the land, the chickens ran about in and to this day they still grow where now there are flats on the land that our house stood on, also the old cobbles and garages where we had taxis that my uncle had. He also had his own decorating buisiness. These pics bring back so many happy memories of a lovely childhood until of course everything altered when the Second World War came about, now at 75 I still hope to have another trip to the old haunts.
Shirley Reynard.