Hi Pat,
Still trying to sort out what I was after..... so much "news" has
come in recently and I'm a bit tied up at home with one thing and
another..... I will sort it out next week.
With regard to Camden Town. I only spent five years there as a
child just before the WW2 started, then we moved to Wales for the duration.
However, my g.parents lived in King Street ( now called "Plender Street )
just off the High Road near the junction with Bayham Street, firstly at
number 87 King St., and then from around 1903 in number 7 King Street......
where my parents continued with the small drapers shop after my g.mother died
in 1929. Around that time the name was chenged to PLENDER st. from KING
st..... don't know why.
I was passing by last April ( 2001) but didn't have a camera
with me. Our old shop is now a Greek ( Cypriot ) deli. at no. 7, whilst their
earlier shop at 87, where they ran a sweet-shop is also something else that
is "Greek" now. The butchers on the corner of Bayham Street is still a
Butchers and the owners son said his father knew the previous owners, Horace
and Nellie Tipple, who used to spoil me rotten as a small child, having none
of their own. I must get back with a camera and take some photos also of the
school in White Lion Street near The Angel where my mother went to school and
Chapel Market where her family ran various stalls.
Will write next week.
Regards, Trevor