I AM in my 80's and I remember quite a lot. I recall going with my mother and brother down to Lyons for a cup of tea and a swiss bun.
I can remember the nippies, the waitresses, in their very smart uniform of black socks, white pinny and a white tiara-type thing in their hair.
It was a real joy to go in it. It was between King Street and the passage through to the church, just up from where Woolworths was in those days.
On the other side of King Street was the ABC. When Lyons and the ABC closed down and my mother wanted a cup of tea we would go opposite the Odeon to the Chef Restraurant, which was a tea room.
My mother always reckoned no one made a cup of tea like the people at Lyons.
My father worked in Isae Waltons, and would recall a charity football match between the parsons and the priests at Vicarage Road.
By Mr Neville Lees, of Firbank Drive, Oxhey.
August 23, 2002 13:00
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