My Mum Ran Comerfords Corner Shop
A Memory of Thames Ditton.
We moved south from Chadderton near Oldham in 1965. My mum had taken over running the corner shop that had been bought by Comerford's in their quest to own the entire block.
All but one house has succumbed to their buying and even when we eventually left in late 1969 the neighbours were holding out.
I was 10 years old and I went to St Mary's in Long Ditton and my brother to Ditton Hill Infants.
I have great memories of Comerford's and the huge warehouses full of old bikes that we used to play on.
I joined the Cubs mainly so we could play football and we won the Esher District football competition in what must have been 1966 or 67. I moved to the scouts and the new scout hut was built by the pavillion on Long Ditton Rec.
Great rose-tinted days.
Whatever happened to Comerford's?
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Mum was born in 3 Park View on Portsmouth Road in 1917 and lived in Thames Ditton until marrying in 1940 when she moved to Hersham and then to Tasmania as a family of 'ten pound Poms' in 1947. We returned in 1949 to live back with mum's parents. For the next 60 years mum lived in Thames Ditton, loved by the many children who passed through St Mary's.
The pictures of Thames Ditton are fascinating, but why no image of AC Cars? What teenage boy could forget the throb of the V8 in the early Cobras and AC428's