I went to Langford Road School until 1943. I can remember going to tap dancing lessons at the old Primitive Methodist chapel in Broughton Approach as a child. I then went to Hurlingham School in Hugon road until 1946. After I left school I worked for a while selling ice creams in the Star cinema in Wandsworth Bridge Road. There was an old chap who used to sell newspapers outside the Star. He wore his medals from the first World War and we called him 'Old Chelsea'. There was a little old lady who lived in the derelict shop on the bend of Pearscroft Road and Bulow Road. We used to call her 'Old Mother Riley'. Does anyone also remember the Pie and Eel cottage Bagleys Lane  behind the Queen Elizabeth pub which preceded the one that used to be between Pearscroft and Sandilands Road on Bagleys Lane?. I also worked at Tully's drapery store opposite the Forum (ABC cinema) in Fulham Road for a number of years.   

I met my husband Geoffrey Halford on an 11 bus at Victoria in 1950. He used to go over there for the extended drnking hours. He was in the territorial army. We were married for over fifty years and he died in 2004. There is a picture of my husband on the front cover of Donald Wheal's book 'World's End' which was about Chelsea during the War. It was taken by the Metropolitan Archive in Burnaby Street World's End on the 23rd of April 1939. He is the boy holding a cricket bat. The wood for the bat was obtained from the local undertakers where the boys used to go for offcuts of wood.

My husband and I moved from Fulham in 1955 and went to live on the Argyle Estate at Wimbledon Common. Then Northolt and Slough. Many Pearscroft Road residents ended up in Slough. I now live on the Isle of Wight.