My First Early Years In Epsom

A Memory of Epsom.

I left school at 16 and went to work for Sir Freddie Laker of Laker Airways fame. I was a stud hand at his stud farm in Woodcote - The Woodcote Stud. He provided a bedsit just outside Epsom opposite a pub (can't remember the name). I used to get paid £9.50 a week and used to go straight down to the local snooker hall on the High Street and play all the jockeys. I learnt to play snooker very well very quickly! Mum and dad used to come down most weekends, mum used to bring hot food, clean clothes and dad did odd jobs. As a treat we would go up on the Downs and have a drink and a pie at the Tattenham Corner; mum's favourite song on the juke box was "tie a yellow ribbon" by Dawn...good days.

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