• IT’S been interesting to read about Clerkenwell Green in the Tribune these past few weeks.

Perhaps I can add a bit more history. My uncle had a coffee stall in the centre of the “green”. There was a horse’s trough (as the van drivers had no motors in the 1930s) plus two telephone kiosks (which I believe are still there).

Eventually, my uncle opened a café, which got bombed during the war. His eldest son managed the coffee stall, but died while serving in the Merchant Navy so his next son managed the stall until he was called up for the army.

During, I think, the 1930s and 1940 my uncle took over another shop, Ernie’s Snack Bar and Café, which is now called Scotti’s snack bar. Next to this was a fish shop and next to that a newsagent.

My mum and dad served hot snacks upstairs in the café until my dad was called up to the RAF in 1942. As I left Hugh Myddelton School in 1942, I took over from my dad and helped my mum serving snacks for about three years.

SYLVIA WARE, N5