Even on a Sunday in late October our High Street can be a busy place.
And looking out from the parish church I am reminded of the countless times I stood in the shelter of that entrance waiting for a friend.
More often than not it will have been a girl friend although thinking about it there were only three steady ones.
That said the corner of Well Hall Road and the High Street was a favoured place for me and Jenny to meet up. In term time she lived in the lodge at Crown Woods and if we were going out to the cinema this was a sensible place to meet.
And this was in that pre mobile age when once the choice of where to meet was made you had to stick to it or suffer the consequences of missing each other and trying to second guess an alternative which otherwise meant mutual recriminations on the Monday morning.
So along with the entrance to Avery Hill and the Wimpy bar this place will always have a special place in my memory.
Picture; the parish churchyard, October 2015 from the collection of Elizabeth and Colin Fitzpatrick
More often than not it will have been a girl friend although thinking about it there were only three steady ones.
That said the corner of Well Hall Road and the High Street was a favoured place for me and Jenny to meet up. In term time she lived in the lodge at Crown Woods and if we were going out to the cinema this was a sensible place to meet.
And this was in that pre mobile age when once the choice of where to meet was made you had to stick to it or suffer the consequences of missing each other and trying to second guess an alternative which otherwise meant mutual recriminations on the Monday morning.
So along with the entrance to Avery Hill and the Wimpy bar this place will always have a special place in my memory.
Picture; the parish churchyard, October 2015 from the collection of Elizabeth and Colin Fitzpatrick
Great memories , we used to go to a disco top of Eltham high street in the church hall , called the mellow yellow 💛. No idea why it was called that but yea used to meet up with lots of friends there
ReplyDeleteI used to go out with a lad who lived at Crown Woods Lodge, I remember being very envious they had hot chocolate and biscuits before bed!
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