Sternhold Avenue Memories

A Memory of Streatham.

We lived in Sternhold Avenue, No 87 I think, and I went to Sunnyhill Road School until we moved to Crystal Palace some two years later. I remember the bombed out old Streatham Theatre and a milk bar call the Blue Riband which was opposite, I think. I always went every Saturday to the ABC cinema. I was there when the last of the trams ran along the High Street and for some years kept the ticket that was issued. In Sternhold Ave there was a school of that name and at the bottom a huge air raid shelter, on the edge of the common. When I left the junior school I went for a short time to Telferscot School, but as we had moved to Crystal Palace, the journey was too much. I loved Streatham, because it was comparatively flat and made cycling so easy.