Elmsleigh Road

A Memory of Wandsworth.

Born in 1947 before the NHS mum was transported to Hitchen to have me (hospitals full in London or too expensive?). I lived in half of a two-up two-down. We had the downstairs. My younger twin sisters and I shared a bed whilst mum & dad slept on the put-u-up. Nanny was across the road above her sister's sweet shop and our other nan around the corner at Whitby House. I had an idealic first 10 years of life until the Trinity Road was built. We had to move to the Alton Estate, Roehampton and my world, at 10 years old, fell apart. Here at 85 Elmsleigh Road we lived below "Uncle" Dan. We raced the streets. We burnt a guy in a street fire in the "frying pan" every 5th November. I followed the gang at 5 years old to Saturday morning pictures. I went to All Farthing Lane School and local Brownies. I have returned recently to trigger memories as my heart belongs to Battersea