Wells Way, Camberwell, S.E.5
A Memory of Peckham.
My stepfather, Frank Russell, owned a tobacco and confectionary shop at 76 Wells Way, Camberwell in the late forties and early fifties. He and my mother married in 1952 at the church on the corner of Wells Way and St Georges Road. The accommodation above the shop was very small so I continued to live with my maternal grandparents in Gloucester Grove, Peckham which back then ran off Wells Way. Gloucester Grove no longer exists but my old school which is now named Gloucester School is still there and I visited it in 2002. My stepfather and mother separated in 1954 and he with his two daughters moved to Australia in 1955. He started writing to my mother to ask her to come to Australia and try to get the marriage going again. She decided to give the marriage another chance and she and I emigrated to Australia in 1956 which is how I came to live in Australia where I still live. Frank Russell, my stepfather died in 1968 and my mother died in 1980.
I revisited Wells Way in 2002 but the shop had long gone by then.
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