1948 1962

A Memory of Morden.

I was born in Morden - christened and went to Sunday School, junior church and youth club at St Lawrence Church at the top of the hill by The George backing on to Morden Park with the bandstand. I remember the old Club House that sold icecreams from a window and the paddling pool by the Club House and the pitch and putt course and the stream at the bottom of the hill! We lived in a house opposite the flats at the end of the parade of shops on London Road by the footbridge that went across the underground railway lines. I remember Caters and the other grocers down by Woolworths at the Morden Hall Park end of the town - they sold broken biscuits from the tin. I remember sitting in the little house outside the Crown Inn for women and children waiting for Dad to finish his pint. Went to St Paul's Kindergarten near the Woodstock then to St Davids at Raynes Park. Had a good childhood there - plenty of freedom. Anyone remember Mrs Mac's private library near the Crown? It was a regular trip for mum to get her favourites - Cowboy and Indian books! Mum and Dad moved to Morden before the war with my eldest brother David when there were lavender fields in Merton. I remember the express dairy shop by the underground station and, of course the Odeon cinema and the posh sweet shop by the underground entrance where they sold hand made chocolates - and so much more....
Anne Mercer - my maiden name was Chick

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