The Legend of Keith Street Back in the 70s and the 80s there was a lunchtime drinking culture. All over the country, it was just the done thing back then, certainly at SEGAS, at lunchtime you went to the pub, or over to the gasboard club for your lunch. Anyway, when I...
My introduction to the print industry came through my mum, she used to work in the finishing department of Pegasus. They used to screen print and make point of sale products, stickers and advertising.
Sometime in 1975, me and Mungo went for a walk to look for a job, as everyone else had paper rounds or worked on the milk, so we thought we would try the butcher shops in Mitcham. The nearest one was the little butcher shop next door to the Bull, Stophers I think? Mungo went in first as we were going to take turns and I was gonna ask next.
Behind Glebe Avenue, backing onto the Standard Estate and Fox`s Path was Lewis Road Recreation Ground. Our local playground and football field, it even had a toilet block. Jack the Keeper It was a proper municipal park run by a lovely old chap called Jack (Ellisson?),...
Remembering the local shops around Glebe Avenue I’ve been living in Glebe Avenue since 1963, there were shops on nearly all the corners and only three cars in the street when we moved in. At one end of the road was a telephone box outside a sweet shop called Jennerways …