Larkswood Cafe

Larkswood Cafe

For a while my parents owned and ran a restaurant in Chingford, Essex, England here's a picture of my Mum taking in the money, it was quite a good restaurant we catered mostly to the working class, truck drivers and the like, I enjoyed living there we had a small place over the restaurant, two bedrooms a nice big living room with a dinning area and we shared the kitchen with the restaurant. On the weekends Dad would let me wash dishes and he paid me a penny a dish! We had a cook named Tilly she was wonderful and could whip up a miracle when it came to food, there was also a couple of waitresses the only one I really remember was named Margaret probably because she spoiled me rotten!
I cant remember exactly how long we lived there for, I think from 1957-1959, although looking back on it, it seemed like forever!
I know I took my 11 plus exam while we lived there.

And Valerie came to visit with Mark who was around 11 mths old at the time.
Across the street from us was a Pub named the Royston Arms and Mum and Dad became very friendly with the man that owned it, Cyril but I cant recall his last name. He had a big American car and we used to drive down to the coast on a Sunday for the day. I always got carsick and still have the aversion to riding in the back seat of a Cadillac. We also had a cat named Micky who was a wonderful mouser. He was very smart the only cat I could ever teach to do tricks! He would climb a ladder and sit and wait for his treat.