The Honor Oak was the St German, where my dad used to drink, almost daily meeting one of the solicitors from Stimpsons Solicitors. Opposite the pub on the corner of Stanstead Rd and Brockley Rise was the Co-Op outside of which was a vending machine dispensing chocolate and strawberry milk, next to it moving up Brockley Rise was Ghinns (sp?) a haberdashery shop, Andersons Newsagents - Anderson was a miserable bloke, then there was the chemist shop (which later moved over the road to where it is now, which was Barclays Bank - next to Barclays Bank was the Post Office), next to the Chemists was a proper old fashioned fish mongers - tiled walls, this is now Talents the music shop and I am told in a hot summer the smell of fish oozes out, the there was the greengrocers and the bakers and finally as currently a hairdressers. Somewhere within that lot was the launderette and drycleaners - I think.

My family moved in to Cranston rd in 1958 ... been one or two changes since then.