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The Chimes Filling Station
A Memory of Streatham.
Hello Ken,
You may remember us, the Beaven boys at number 71 or 72 (Parents Name Collins). I was born in 1945, Stephen in 1940 and Michael 1936.
I went to the lovely Eardley Road Primary school before we moved to Clapham in 1954. Its now a nursery I believe. I loved the walk to school under all the enormous railway junction Bridges and at the weekend following my Brother to the Tooting Bec Lido for a swim.
One day accompanying Stephen and scrambling around the ruins of the former Chimes Garage on the Corner of the Common, we got involved in a fight between Gangs who were using air guns and it frightened the life out of me.
Streatham was such a vibrant place then with Trams rattling, coal being unloaded at Streatham Station, Coffee being roasted in a deli Shop near Pratts and going to the theatre to see Pantomime etc., etc.,
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