tooting: A memory of Streatham

Tooting

A Memory of Streatham.

wonderful memories of growing up in tooting. I was born in 1939 and can vaguely remember the end of the war. I remember the rationing, and often wonder how our parents managed, I was one of four, so often had hand me down clothes, I remember the rag and bone man that came round the streets with his horse and cart and we would hide because the one that was available had to follow the horse with a shovel and a bucket until it did its business, good for the roses my father would say. Tooting was a lovely place, there was a horse trough outside the Kings Head public house although it wasn't used in my time. Wonderful memories of sunny summer days spent on Tooting Bec common, walking from Tooting Bec road right through to Bedford Hill in Balham where the swing were. and swimming at the Lido, I could go on forever

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I lived in Holdernesse Road, Tooting Bec. My grandfather lived in the same house from 1899 and all his children, 13 of them, including my mother, were born in it. The house was blown down during WWII from the blast of a doodlebug. After the war the house was repaired and my grandfather, me and my parents moved in. Grandfather died in St. George's Hospital - in 1955 my parent and I left for South Africa. I went to Raventone Jnr School in Balham and then senior chool was Ensham, in Franiscan Road, Tooting Broadway. I too remember the rag and bone men and our coal being delivered in huge sacks on the back of coal-covered men. Denise Taylor (nee Macleod)

By Denise Taylor on Wed Feb 25th 2015, at 4:01 pm

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