Battersea Park

I remember Battersea Rise in 1968 there was a chemist there who gave my husband a pill to keep him awake as he wanted to revise for his exam the next day. I was roped in but no pill for me so tired at work. We were in a flat in Leathwaite Road which cost £5 a week. There was a butcher in Battersea Rise and I often had a hand if pork which lasted several days. A shoulder of lamb was approx. 14 shillings. There was a hairdresser too. I once got on a train at Clapham Junction while it was moving. - an experience never to be repeated!! It took 5 years to save for a deposit on a house and when moving I was left to pack up on my own while he went to his home to collect his car. I stayed up all night packing, panicking I would not finish in time. I have been married to someone else for over 43 years now. Oh and I mer someone who worked in Arding and Hobbs who earned £10 per week. I used to wait at bus stops and everyone pushed to get on, so I did the same eventually! I remember people being more friendly in those days. There was a red light in front of a door in our road but was too innocent to know what it meant!