1940 To 1956 Clarence Road
A Memory of Canning Town.
I was born at 25 Clarence road 1940 and lived there to 1956 as a boy worked on milk round with Albert on 3 whealed cart delivering to percey rd clarence rd manor road buildings also in Bobs dairy shop and Jack Feacey butchers went to Star Lane school 1945....1951 then Pretoria rd 1 year then SWHTS to 1956 .
As a kid playing marbles football cricket knock down ginger in the road.NO CARS!!
Walking to woolwich ferry spending half day to and fro sometimes greenwich naval museum as a nipper going shopping with mum down Rathbone market having sarcparellas hot chesnuts what wonderful memories boxing for Faairbain house wrens sweet shop bill savage greengrocers in clarence road not forgetting bookies runners mates jack falkner johnny and mickey knight derrick howard and many more we were so lucky to have lived through these times.
Alan Reid
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