A STRANGE TOWN & COUNTRY MISCELLANY - PART II
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Swiss Cottage seemed cosmopolitan and glamorous.
There was a shop on the corner of Goldhurst Terrace that sold nothing but coffee;
the smell of roasting coffee beans started outside the Dorice Restaurant (gullasch, nockerl, Wiener Gugelhupf)
and drifted across the entrance of the old swimming pool/gym and down into Finchley Road tube station.
Outside the match-seller who stood at it’s entrance year after year. There were delicatessens and patisseries.
Most impressive of all, there was John Barnes, a branch of the John Lewis Partnership. No doubt it was called John Barnes after some dignified draper.
On the North side of Finchley Road, next door to the latest in fast foods The Golden Egg (opened by none other than Roger Moore),
was ‘Toys Toys Toys’ - a source of many of the latest fads such as Jetex fuses to be let off in the playground,
time-delay handgrenades which fired off caps very loudly on the teachers’ desk
after they were intentionally confiscated, and Potty Putty.
Ugly German Text Book
A peek inside cover
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Textbook from the school's country section circa 1945-49
Another Text Book
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