Ferry Approach
A Memory of Woolwich.
My dad opened his first shop in Ferry Approach, a cafe, it was situated directly outside the woolwich foot tunnel with plenty of dock workers and factory workers passing by every day and a constant stream of traffic queuing for the ferry.
My brother and I used to go to the shop after school to help out, washing up and sweeping up.
Dad went on to own the fag and paper shop next to the cafe also a greetings card shop
that I managed as my first job after leaving school. His brother John also owned a cafe in ferry approach.
Local characters were Deafy, Jim the brick and Peter the painter, anyone remember them or us?
There was underground toilets in ferry approach that we had to use and the phone box in the middle of the pavement was our shop phone number.
There was also a flour mill in ferry approach where my future wife worked.
We are still happily married ( 2021 )
When the council compulsory purchased ferry approach and all our shops to build the new sports Center and relocate the ferry up near the odeon cinema.
I opened a new cafe in woolwich high street called Ready Snacks. Finally selling up to my brother and moving to Folkestone to open ready snacks 2 .
Barry mansfield
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They lived in the big house, (well i used to think it was) next to the Mill, we used to go and visit them some times on the week end. I loved it round there, and excellent place to play, and i loved the little shops in Ferry Approach, and the foot tunnel and sitting on the wall by the thames. So many memories
She remembers mr. Rintoule and remembers Mr Linford the managing director of the company always shouting at Roy . She also remembers Roys son and daughter.
Barry mansfield