The Chapel Street Market branch of Woolworths closed
\ndown last month, and thus another part of my landscape
\nhistory disappeared along side of it.<\/p>\n
I have a strong memory of being outside of the store while I
\nwas four years old – over 50 years ago.<\/p>\n
Places change, buildings come and go.<\/p>\n
What used to be slum areas turn in to fashionable parts.<\/p>\n
Fashionable areas decay and turn in to slum areas.<\/p>\n
It’s the old saying:
\n‘What comes around goes around’.<\/p>\n
What used to be the premises of C & W May ( theatrical
\nCostumiers ) has changes a lot.<\/p>\n
I worked for the company in Covent Garden from 1968 to
\n1972.<\/p>\n
My how things have changed in the area since then!<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I would go to work while the Fruit and vegetable market
\nwas in full swing.<\/p>\n
In the evening I might sometimes have a beer in the Essex
\nSerpent – another one of the areas historical watering
\nholes.<\/p>\n
What was the C & W May premises on King Street is now an
\nHMV record store.<\/p>\n
In the time I worked for Mays it moved to Garrick Street.
\nThose premises are now a Waterstones book shop.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I went shopping in Covent Garden,
\nand punched a couple of DVDs in the King Street store.<\/p>\n
Both the King Street & Garrick Street premises have a very
\ndifferent layout to what they had while I worked in them.<\/p>\n
While visiting these stores I use my memory map to work out
\non just what spot I’m standing upon in terms of the old Mays
\npremises.<\/p>\n
It can be very strange and very disconcerting to be at the
\nsame place which is not the same place as one remembers.<\/p>\n
Part of my own radical walking tour covers this part of
\nCovent Garden.<\/p>\n
I can point out the former headquarters of the CPGB
\n( communist part of Great Britain) on the corner of King
\nStreet, and which is now a bank.<\/p>\n
or<\/p>\n
Where I once saw the great Actress Sybil Thorndyke being
\ntaken in to a restaurant along King Street.<\/p>\n
or<\/p>\n
The former offices of the Left Book Club in Henrietta
\nStreet.<\/p>\n
&<\/p>\n
I’ll even show you where I used to work.<\/p>\n
Just come with me for a stroll around Covent Garden
\nsometime:
\nAlong with my historical memories of the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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