I spent a great deal of my early childhood with my aunt and uncle on the Pheasey Estate and remember being taken to a clinic on the road to the left of the Odeon with her babies (my cousins who were about 10/11 years younger than me)and my treat was what I thought was a very large round chocolate biscuit from Baines (or was it Wimbush?) The Odeon also was a big part of my life, being taken there by teachers at Dulwich Road school to see Henry V with Laurence Olivier and my second date with my future husband (who was lodging in Bandywood Road) was to see Mutiny on the Bounty in January 1951.
From Chris Hillcox’s Voices of Kingstanding (https://kingstanding.wordpress.com/memories/ammenaties/shops/kingstanding-circle-shops/), shared with his permission..
Filmed for Voices of Kingstanding in 2011, Margaret Crompton describes joining the Land Army and the air raids on Kingstanding during the Second World War.
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