Letter: I Remember the Old Onslow Street So Well

Published on: 18 Sep, 2025
Updated on: 19 Sep, 2025

From Harry Elson

In response to: Memories of Onslow Street in the ’60s – and The Thriving Café Run By My Grandfather

I remember Onslow Street as it was so well.

I lived in the top flat above  the newsagents, Babbingtons, for a year with the the Lee family and played Sunday football with Ray Lee for Robert Dyas.

I think Ray worked at Perrings, the furniture shop.

My bedroom overlooked the water cooler on the Friary Meux site and what a smell of hops!

At the front was the Salvation Army Citadel and on Sunday mornings the band would parade down the street. Tough but great days, well remembered.

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