Iron Mill Lane

A Memory of Crayford.

My mother's sisters (and she had a number of them) all seemed to live in Crayford - Aunts Mag, Martha, Maud, Rose, Phyllis, Violet and Freda. My favourite aunt lived in Iron Mill Lane and she had four children - Harold, Leslie, Margaret and Ann. We visited often. Next door to her house was a sweet shop where one of my younger cousins, Violet, helped out on Saturdays and earned half a crown for doing so. In the evenings we kids had a ball while the grown ups went down to the Jolly Farmers pub. My grandmother lived on the other side of Iron Mill Lane. She was a very hard woman indeed who ruled her family with a rod of iron. She had never been to school so was totally illiterate.