A successful high street requires people. People require reasons to visit, but they also require a practical way of getting there
I’m not sure how my life would have turned out without Orpington High Street, where I grew up and lived for four decades. It was where we went as a family on a bus several times a week, sometimes on a Routemaster 94, for swimming lessons, an ice-cream float in the Golden Egg restaurant, school uniform and birthday presents. It was where Mum gossipe