Church outings at St Andrew’s – by GS

I used to attend St Andrew’s Church on Ham Common, because that was tied up with our school because the local vicar used to come round the school quite often.  The lady who used to run the church outings was Mrs North and she lived in Lock Road, and we used to pay a weekly fee to her, whatever you could afford, and that would sort of build up a bit of cash and in the summer you went on an outing to the seaside on a coach, or charabanc as they were called, and those are the only outings I actually remember.