My Old Cafe

A Memory of South Benfleet.

I was only young when my family left Macs cafe, I lived there with my mum Dorothy, father Arthur King, brother Adrian, and sister Delicia King. My half brothers are Brian, Ken, John Cripps, and sister Daphne Cripps. I have good memories of that old cafe, It stood on the main road a13 near the cross roads near the Tarpots pub, there was a garage next to the cafe. People I remember are David Newman, the big family Claxtons Susan Cribb.
Going back to my mum and dad, after the war, they lived on a house boat on Benfleet Creek. I remember Ted Heaney, I used to use his canoe, and another man called Lewis, who died through a fire on his boat. I remember going through the old bridge that used to open.
Sadly my mum passed away when I was 5, and after a while we moved away from the cafe, and away from Benfleet. The cafe was eventually pulled down, sad!! But I still go back to Tarpots, so different now, but I still have good memory's of the place.