Queuing for Wimbush’s cakes in wartime

My brother and I spent many an hour in all sorts of weather in the war waiting for delivery of cakes if lucky you got one shillings worth then there was a shop in between I think it was a grocers then came Baines Baker over the road to Cozifit round the corner the Barbers then Lennons Drapers I worked there Mr& Mrs Lennon had one son Phillip over the road Parks greengrocer then Jones Fish & chip shop past the funeral directors there was a chemist just before Knights over the dual road past the billiard hall I think there was a Hairdressers shop on from Knights on the corner was Mecca sweet shop round the corner facing onto the Odeon was the British Restaurant people could buy bowls of vegs all to help out with the rations I suppose my friend and I used to go in for a cup of tea and the treat of a Bun then there was a Fish & Chip shop. The British Restaurant was on Kettlehouse rd opposite the exit from the Odeon the kitchen where the food was cooked was at the bottom of Banners Gate road my mom worked there,it was to help out with the rations you could buy bowls of mashed potato or bowl of peas jug of gravy taking your own bowl of course. So many memories remember when we moved from Twickenham road to Rough road in 1936 the field opposite our house on Rough road was flat it was a farm there was an old farmhouse in the top right hand corner derelict I cant remember when the water works took it over but every night during the bombing there were so many incendiary bombs were dropped there think the gerry’s thought it was a secret weapons place lucky none of us got hit only the house in Miilburn road looked like a knife had sliced through leavng the other house standing I lived at the top of Rough road on the corner of Hartley rd & Rough Rd till we came to Australia in 1949