Photo's from Clapham

• Anchor Inn, Sweetbriar Street. Next door but one to 40 Sweetbriar Street, where my brother and I were born.
• Bert Kingscote
• Cliff & Gordon Ballinger in a tin bath in the back yard of our house at 40 Sweetbriar Street, with my Aunty Rachael.
• Me, sitting in the back yard at 40 Sweetbriar Street.
• My father, Cliff Ballinger Snr at the front of 2 Counsel Street where he was brought up.
• Me in my little car at the front of 2 Counsel Street. 1953.
• Me in my pram at the back of 40 Sweetbriar Street. 1950.
• My Great Uncle Dick Riley and me standing in front of 2 Counsel Street. 1953. Uncle Dick's family had lived in the same house before he took over the tenancy when they died. I know they were living there in the 1880's
• Dick Riley and person unknown.
• Dick and Ethel Riley at the back of 2 Counsel Street.
• Ethel and Dick Riley plus 2 unknown on a day out.
• Ethel Riley and me standing in the road at the end of Counsel Street. The wall is still there and this picture allows me to work ot exactly where 2 Counsel Street stood.
• Ethel Riley with me standing on the windowsill of 2 Counsel Street.
• Ethel Riley and neighbour at the front of 2 Counsel Street.
• Ethel Riley and neighbour at the back of 2 Counsel Street.
• Ethel Riley and unknown at the back of 2 Counsel Street.
• Ethel Riley at the back of 2 Counsel Street.
• Ethel Riley and Rufus the dog at the front of 2 Counsel Street.
• My mum, Etta Ballinger standing in Sweetbriar Street. In the background is the corner of Tartaglias ice cream shop.
• My mum and Granny at the door of 40 Sweetbriar Street.
• My mum and Granny standing in Sweetbriar Street. Note Tartagliias van in the background.
• Another picture similar to the one above.
• Unknown people showing a view up Sweetbriar Street.
• St Marks School around 1929. My dad is the second from the right, with his foot sticking out into the aisle.
• St Marks School Certificate. My Great uncle Dick Riley got this in 1897.

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