Manor Park
I’ve lived in every part of London, North, East, South, West, Essex, Middlesex. Yes even the outskirts. But my childhood memories are based around Manor Park, East London. I grew up there, it was my hometown. I remember the Aqua-Quatics store opposite my primary school. I remember they had a huge tank and a 3 feet great white shark inside it. I used to go to Salisbury primary school and on the way home I used to pop in and spend at least 5 minutes just starting at it, it was beautiful and I guess that’s why I have a passion for sharks now days.
Down the Romford Rd and past the Army and Navy store we used to go play football in Wanstead Park. During the summer I remember we swam the small little lake! My father used to go jogging around the wanstead park after work and we would play cricket all day long and all the family would get together and have a picnic. I think I got my hay fever from Wanstead Park, because during the summer the pollen was everywhere, me and my sister would have red swollen eyes. Not forgetting the High Street North which went into Eastham and the Kwik-Save. Wonder what happen to Kwik-Save? I’ve haven’t seen one for 15 years now!
Well now I live in West of London and I hear so many stories in the papers and news about gun violence in East London, it makes me not want to go there. The last story I heard was some lady and her son got shot in Eastham, I mean come on it’s only mother and child, what could they have done wrong?
Manor Park reminds me of some good old memories and I think will pop down into Manor Aquatics one day just to see if that shark is still there. Oh I remember the price tag on that shark tank it was something like £10000000. I’ll buy it one day when I’m rich enough!
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