Morden

A Memory of Morden.

I lived with my grandparents in Central Road, number 57, from birth until I was 3 when we moved to Highworth for a few years. My grandparents lived in the house before the war. My brother and his wife and children still live in the same house, number 57. I had the fondest and happiest childhood memories in that house, my grandad had a shed at the bottom of the garden which used to be the old air raid shelter. It was an Aladdin's Cave, full of broken clocks bits and bobs. My grandparents grew all their own vegetables and summer fruits in that garden with a little bit laid to lawn with flowers for my Nan. Mrs Taylor lived next door and I remember cups of tea being passed over the fence during summer months. I have never been back there for the past 32 years but it is fondly in my memory, along with my grandparents. I was married in 1970 in St Lawrence Church there, as were my own parents in 1950.

I remember walking hand in hand with my Nan over a little bridge and the Willow School was at the back of the fence. I remember the old dairy shop over the road, and the Co-op where your money was put into a tube and disappeared somewhere above and came back with change and a divi coin.  My first pair of ski pants in olive green when I was 13 was bought from Morden High Street and my first watch when I was ten years old.
It's lovely to read everyone else's memories being as fond as my own.  Thank you Frith for this wonderful site.

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