//Shopping list/instructions written for me by my employer in 1978. Advance was the dry cleaners in Edgware Road. I’m not now sure about Stanton Freres; was it the local off-licence?//
I left school and home when I was 17 and, on the dole in 1978, supplemented my income working for a woman in her late 30s whose sugar daddy had put her up in a flat in a mansion block off Edgware Road. He rarely visited, and in fact died while I was in her employ. The family forbade her from attending the funeral and I realise now her tenancy was likely quite shaky.
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Tags: Edgware Road, Holt's, Hyde Park Square, Joe Strummer, Marble Arch, Paddington, Pat Booth, Richard Young, Roddy Lewellyn, Safeway, Stanton Freres, Tramp
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