josie

I remember Budds newsagents becuase I married Tony their youngest son, Dorothy Budd did always have a fag hanging out of her mouth as well as coughing her head off,her husband 'Bert was great ,nothing was too much for him, he had the black eye because he got beaten up when he discovered someone robbing the shop one night. Tony and I got married at St Pauls church and had the reception across the road at the Windsor pub

I started Carlton Girls school around 1954 Miss Plackett was headmistress and our form teacher was Miss Dennis we also had a Mr. Cook who has a habit of calling us all thick zombies (probably wouldnt be allowed to do that now), can anyone remember in the winter when the toilets used to freeze up and the playground at the front was a skating rink - another thing that wouldnt be allowed now,we used to have games such as netball in the front playground which caused us to get oggled at by the Chandos Street boys and to play hockey we used to have to walk down to the playing fields on Stoke Lane wh