Steak and kidney pies at Rochelle’s

My earliest memories…. being carried by my dad to the Odeon cinema in the dark with my pyjamas on, i suppose ready to be put to bed when they got home. I remember Harry Rochelles the butcher on the corner at the Circle and their steak &kidney pies, my grandad Frank Jew used to do jobs for him over the years so we got our meat from him. Clare’s the newsagent, Baines the cake shop, can’t remember the name of the big fruit & veg shop there, my Nan Dolly Jew used to send me to buy loose potatoes and vegetables, there would always be a long q of old ladies and their shopping bags. Spuds etc. would be weighed on scales with weights and then poured from the metal scoop into shopping bag.. Also funeral directors further round, Hewards across the road. There were trees on the Circle island and metal fencing round the greens at the Circle. Also a great fish & chip shop across the road from Odeon, a bag of chips was a 3 penny piece and was wrapped in newspaper.