Kingstanding Police Station, 2010

“One day I was playing outside and a truck came down Esher Rd and turned the corner onto Cooksey Lane and as it did a bag rolled off the back onto the street … it was like an Army Kit Bag … When my Dad got home from work I told him about it and he said, “Take it down to the Police Station”. So the next day I threw it over my shoulder and carried it all the way down the Kingstanding Hill to the Police Station … The Police station had a notice board outside and what was called the Danger List was on it and your name would be listed if you were in danger of dying.”

“I remember we found a big dog on our doorstep one Christmas Eve, we lived in Abney Grove, off Bendall Road, we kept the dog over the Xmas period & fed him, but our parents made us take him to Kingstanding police station after … we cried walking back home down the Kings Road, then low & behold the dog came running up behind us, he had escaped from the police … That was back in the sixties.”

“My dad was a special constable in the late forties, early fifties, Len Talbot.”