Sidcup, The Oval c.1955
Photo ref:
S127060
Photo ref:
S127060
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The half-timbered top storeys of all these shops added an attractive architectural extra to this suburban part of the town. Dewhurst the butcher, sixth left, was one of many traders familiar to shoppers in the 1950s. Today this parade of shops sit by a much busier road than the one we see here.
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Memories of Sidcup, the Oval c1955
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I remember a shop on this parade where you could take a broken dolly to be repaired in a ' hospital. I lived in Blackfen, so only a short walk down to the Oval. Or you could ride on a single decker bus.
We lived on the corner of the oval adjoining Burnt Oak Road in a flat, 53b, above what was at the time an empty shop. It was wartime and we used to ride our bikes around the empty shop. Out the back was a garden and there was an iron fire escape leading up to the back of the flat. I remember that the bakery on The Oval used a horse and cart for deliveries and if we had a penny we would go in and buy a sticky bun and for a ...see more
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