ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to examine the childhood spaces of Peter's neighbourhood amid the context of 1970s media-informed notions of the high street and its surrounding neighbourhood. It is to reiterate: The Peter' referred to here in particular, his memories of his childhood home, Ivy Cottage, and his remembering of the spaces of his childhood is not to be confused with the author of this book. The chapter first concerns Peter's remembering of his childhood places shops especially that were within close proximity of his childhood home, Ivy Cottage. With regards British cultural texts' varied representations of shopkeeper's horror films often depicted them as the Devil incarnate or the like. It should come as no surprise, then, that by the time it had the opportunity, in 2006, to revisit the neighbourhood of Peter's childhood, Miriam's had shut up shop for good. The chapter has offered an understanding of childhood spaces.
