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The ARP signs.

I did enjoy the early days as a postman. We all had a good ‘ol sing song in the morning while we were laying-in our walks,
I’ve attached some old Victorian “Walk” signs from the wooden sorting frames that they […]

What office were you working at as a postie Emily?

Yes it was George. It’s my fading memory that’s to blame there.

Yes that’s me! The grey jacket was the summer one we wore. The colour before this was brown. I became a Postman/Driver in 1969. We were supposed to wear our caps, but we had an easy-going guv-nor who didn’t mind […]

Hi Barry.
When I was a postie at Clapton SDO we had a PHG there by the name of Ken Reddin! Any relation?

I’m afraid I can’t throw any light on Percy Ingle’s history for you, and don’t have anything of interest that I can tell you about the Chatsworth Rd shop, other than it was a delivery point on my postmans’ round […]

Hi Jennifer.
Great memories, just what we like on this site. One little teenie- weenie correction, the school butcher, oops sorry, the school dentist, was at 13 Goulton Road. When I used to HAVE to go there in […]

Hi Diane. I would like to see the street party photo please. Back in the mid 60’s I used to cycle down Millfields Rd and along the tow path to Sherry’s Wharf where I worked for a couple of years. I also took some […]

Some more good memories of our younger days.
I remember those prefabs in Linscott Rd.
My Jean went to Glyn Road School, they re-named it Clapton Park, the year she left.
Jean lived on Marlow Road,which used to […]

My mum used to take me in the BHS in the Narroway where they had a refreshment section at the back. I used to love their mugs of Horlicks drink……..In Woolworth’s I used to love their cylindrical ice cream […]

All mod cons indeed Derek, and not only that, but an all around garden to play in as well.We moved from there in 1956 to Florence Court in Kenninghall Rd until I got married on World Cup Day, 1966. Now we’re in a […]

I’m sure you probably feel the same as me Derek, that for us kids then, they were very much the “good ‘ol days” and also carefree. I also spent the first six months of my life in 1947, living just off of Chats […]

Hi Derek. So glad you liked the photos taken around the Chatsworth Rd area, hope that they bring back some good memories for your mum.
I knew the Venus Pencil factory on Lower Clapton Rd, but must say, I’ve not […]

Hi Tony.
Have you read the piece on this website about the “Working Lives” book that I was in, talking about my time as a postman on the Chatsworth Road round?
It’s here (I hope) […]

Hi Sam.
Our Mr Ellis who took the photos lived on Clifden Road from the early 20th century. Where-a-bouts on Northwold Rd did your Mr Ellis live? As that was my stamping ground.
Ken

Hi Sue.
I found this name of Masters in the Abney Park Records.

Masters, John Henry (aged 40)
1845 – 1885 (buried 15/03/1885)

Ken

Hi Susan.
Can’t help you regarding what may have happened to the photographic work from Kew, but I had a look on line of the Abney Park Cemetery Trust site, where they have a data base of graves, but […]