Deborah's memories on former corner shops

“I remember the only shop in the actual Stratford Village area that was open at that time is the one that is now ‘Sylvia’s Corner’ which was a grocery shop run by an old lady with an Alsatian dog. It was the sort of place you could go to on a Sunday if you had run out of toilet roll, or milk or baked beans or something, but it didn’t have a very wide range of stuff.

The south of Tennyson Road you can see it had been a shop and it had things like workmen’s tools in the windows, and it looked like a shop window, but by then it wasn’t a shop at all.”