Fountain Road And Upper Tooting

A Memory of Tooting.

I was born and first lived in Fountain Road. My first memory is the nursery at Amen corner in and old fire station they had stairs that went in a spirol and I hated them. I went to Defoe School and then on to Broadwater, next door. I remember going to the park just round the corner from us, don't know I think it was Tooting Grove, but not sure. There was a grass area and swings and the park keepers hut. Next door was the Fountain hospital where I think the Down's Syndrome lived. Next to that, just looked up old maps, to find it was Grove hospital then. I didn't know it was so big in those days. I believe St Grorges have taken over all this area now. We used to go to Fairlight Halls, me for Girls brigade, my brothers for Boys brigade. I remember shaking hands with Cliff Richard there.
When I was about 12/13 we moved to Topsham Road, Upper Tooting just after I had started Garratt Green School. I worked on Saturdays for a time in the new Tescos that opened near the Granada, and then at Martin Fords. Church was The Upper Tooting Methodist with the Youth Club. We had our own group with Geoff Thorne on base guitar, my best friend then was Jackie Davy. We all went on a club holiday to Guernsey and on midnight hikes. My name then was Ann Picott, does anyone else remember those days?