Dwyer's Newsagents

A Memory of Loughton.

I used to cycle down to Dwyer's, the newsagents, with my brother to buy tins of coke, caps for our toy guns and comics (and half-penny chews). Dwyer's was in Brooklyn Parade, which is shown in this photo, I think it was two shops to the right of what was, until recently, Churchill Estate Agents. I think there was a Sketchley's dry cleaners there as well. I remember mum driving us down there one winter's afternoon and telling us to stay in the car as she wasn't going to be long and she left the keys in the car - naturally, being boys, we ignored her and got out to look in Dwyer's and we locked the doors. When she came back we were locked out of the car and my brother had to run down to Patmore's garage, whom we'd bought the car from, to get a mechanic to open the car for us.