Baby Boomers In The 60s

A Memory of Welling.

I was born in 1947 and moved to Welling in 1951. I feel very lucky to have been a teenager in the 60s when music for us really started to take off. I was a massive Beatles fan but loved the other stuff as well. Went to the Twisted Wheel (do you remember they didn't have a dance licence so when the light flashed you had to stop dancing). Who remembers the Parish Hall dances and the youth club on the corner of Lovell Avenue, both had live groups. Also went to the community centre by Stephens Park. Remember standing outside there with some lads who were listening to the Clay/Cooper fight. Legendary night! Went to St Michael's School, then Berwick Road and finally Bexley Tech. We moved to Dartford in 1964, they dragged me kicking and screaming because I didn't want to leave my friends. Spent many years in Dartford then 40 in Greenhithe but still remember Welling like it was yesterday. This is a great site for frustrated nostalgic writers like me. Feel so much better now. Barbara Burkett nee Mellish.