South Chingford, Chingford Mount Road c.1955
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Memories of South Chingford, Chingford Mount Road c1955

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Other shops I remember. Trant and Grundy, Star Radio, Jackson and Allen, Leytonia, Malcom Powney, Smiths Books, Welsteads, Lavender House. Owen Aves, Richard Miles, Timms Shoe repairs, Shales, Pollards, Choclate Box. Mount Sports,Wallis Fishshop, National Provincal Bank, Sainsbury's, Silk's Coal Merchant, Hampton Garage. Coles, The Monument Mason by the cemetary. Pettingals, Norman Trevor. Bartons ...see more
I was born in 1939 in the Chingford Mount Hospital. My late father Sam Shapiro (later Shepherd) owned the business Chingford Mount Radio near the corner of Chingford Mount and Larkswood road next door to one of the wartime British Restaurants established in a community or church hall at the corner of Larkswood Road. He used to drive around in a small cream coloured van with the ad "Your Murphy ...see more
I went to see 'The Jungle Book' in the Odeon and remember the restaurant opposite - dead posh. I worked in the tiny TESCO supermarket which was opposite Rossis. In the 1970s Rossis was a mecca for teenagers as it sold records and you could stand in a tiny booth and preview the record before you bought it. The queues for soft icecreams were incredible on Sunday. The Sainsbury shop was where ...see more
We moved to Leonard Road Chingford in 1951. I particularly remember the trolley buses and how the poles on the top used to come off and the conductor would get a long bamboo cane from under the bus to rehook the pole onto the electric cable I also remember Larkswood lido, the Odeon cinema at Chingford Mount. After attending Chase Lane Primary School I went to Wellington Avenue Secondary Modern School near Ridgeway ...see more