Growing Up In Woodford

A Memory of Woodford Green.

Growing up during war years and having to spend many nights in the Anderson shelter at bottom of garden. School was only half days for a while and when my brother started he had to go to neighbouring houses where the teachers came, rather than at Ray Lodge School, Woodford Bridge. Sat my 11+ exam at the High School and we had to take sandwiches in case an air raid interrupted the exam. I passed and then had to go by steam train from Woodford station to Loughton every day.
I lived in Woodford until I got married at All Saints Church, Woodford Wells in April 1955 and was lucky enough to have my photo on the front page of local paper, sharing that page with the historic news of Winston Churchill's resignation.