Working In Sidcup

A Memory of Sidcup.

Reading one of the messages on the site about David Greig's shop in Sidcup high street, brought back memories of my time with that company. I did relief work some of the time in the early 60's and one shop I worked in was the one in Sidcup. My base was the Orpington shop and whilst training I worked in Reading and Slough. In later years I started work at the Kentish Times at the top of Sidcup Hill and have many happy memories of the years I spent there as a driver in the circulation department, I see from the internet that much of the old building has now been demolished. I left the company in about 1985/6 and went into working with people instead of newspapers, what a change! I also as a child remember Smokey Joe; my mother sometimes stopped at Bells fish shop in station Road on the way home from my grandparents in Hearst Road and at times we saw Joe. I have lots of memories about Sidcup and have not been near there for many years now as I live on the south coast, but enjoy looking at this site and the nostalgia of my grandparents going to the Blue Anchor pub off Hearst Road somewhere, and I as a child always wanted that anchor!