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I was born and breed in Walthamstow. My parents lived in Maynard Road for over 60 years, my grandparents ran the old bookshop in Church Lane, Arthur and Maybel King.
I went to Maynard Road school from 1949 until 1956 or thereabouts. Life for the King family was very hard,my father having bought his house,him being a bricklayer things got very hard in the winter,no work no money,and being a family of 6 in the end,things were tight.
My eldest sister Joan has been in touch with you I think, she being the eldest had things very much easier.
I was born in 1944 like most in Thorpe Coombe, number 4 in the family, but quite a few years between me and my brother, my parents being in their 40s by then, I remember playing for hours in the street (street raking) my mother called it, we skipped played 3 stones rounders, knock down ginger,got chased then balls hit windows, made jiggers,cut my leg really badly when my brother lost control going down Maynard Road almost ran into Shernhall St. so he pulled up sharp. When I was older Wood St. (if my mother had ever found out I was there she would have killed me) I got caught on camera at the walk and it was in the local, thank God she never saw the photo. Hollow Ponds by our (gang) tree!
Lido, Had the pleasure of Frankie Vaughan being there once, thought he was God's gift, didn't do much for us girls, a little too old for us, he had been to some factory in Lea Bridge Road. Lots more memories, the Bell, Leyton Baths (Beatles) Granada, Forest Gate skating ring, Fair in Lea Bridge Road, most places I shouldn't have been.
Many thanks for the site
Hope this finds you well happy and rich!