Morden 1960s

A Memory of Morden.

I went to Poplar Primary School, the headmaster was Mr How - a great man. I remember Caters supermarket on the corner and was especially fascinated by the fish department which often included a tray of live eels. I remember one escaping and slithering down the shop aisles, scattering screaming shoppers in its wake, before it was caught and brought back to the chopping board. I also remember Hawes furniture store, the big Co-Op which is now Safeways, Woolworths, Bata shoes, Lilley and Skinner shoes, Disc Records, J Leon newsagent on the corner by the tube station, even the Odeon cinema for our Saturday morning pictures. Also the buses lined up to take everyone to the Derby at Epsom, and the big library at the end of Morden which is now a doctors' surgery. Morden Hall Park, before it was taken over by the National Trust, actually had deer in it and cows, as part of it was a working farm that you could walk through.