New Member

Hi Everyone
I'm a new member of the forum.  I lived in Reverdy Road from 1947 to 1969 when I escaped to Hampshire.  I attended the Alma primary and junior schools, and then the Aylwin Grammar for Girls in Southwark Park Road.  I went to ballet classes firstly at a church hall in East Street (Old Kent Road), and then at the church opposite John Bull Arch in Galleywall Road.  I bought my stockings from a stall outside the launderette in Southwark Park Road ( 2/11 - 14½p - for one pair of 10 denier mesh), and my first trendy suit from a shop opposite the launderette which I think was called Carl's but I may be confusing it with a hairdressers close by.    I was a member of the youth club at (Methodist) Central Hall in Bermondsey Street for several years until I discovered the Glenlyn Ballroom in Forest Hill.  My first job was in Woolworths in Southwark Park Road where I earned the huge sum of 15/- (75p) on a Saturday for working from 9am to 5.30pm, until I found more lucrative employment in an Oxford Street shop where I received 25/- (£1.25) for working from 9am to 12.30pm.  I was married at St Anne's in Thorburn Square in 1966.  Everything has changed quite a bit since I left London but Reverdy Road seems the same.