BermondseyBoy

Hi kiwi, Yes , I remember the Oxo refresher after a hard winters night swimming and Saturday morning muck about at Bermondsey Baths. I was an engineer at the Heinke Sub factory along the road and used the baths for testing the SCUBA tanks back off Navy loan . The hard hat divers equip was tested inh...

WESTON.jpg My house No 107 last door on the left . See the basement window where me and my motorbike mates used to remove the railings to get our bikes down into the coal cellar (we could remove the sash window as constant WW11 bombings made window frames loose)so we could repair our bikes in the d...

Correction to my earlier post . I now think the metalwork teacher was Mr Fitzpatrick ,a big Scots bloke, and woodwork was Mr Hemans.
I must keep taking the memory pills !.

Posted by crosby34 Attached is a view of Weston St school in the 1930s. Unfortunately the spire is just out of the photo. 337039cad9c6e986755aae46989457283f497ab4.jpg Hi, I was here in the 60s when it was the Chaucer evening institute. At first, I joined to learn motorcycle mechanics and later to l...

Back in 1950 B.B.Voss Car park / yard, which was 100 yds from my house in Weston Street, was our Sunday morning football pitch plus access to a rooftop view of the girls on the big swings in Kipling Park for us climbers. Obviously our football was a mix of newspaper and old socks wrapped with rubber...

Great Dover StrGreat Dover Street facing towards the Borough to see how this area has changed. In the old picture from 1950 we notice the lack of traffic, the Dover Castle pub can just be seen on the left as well as the Church in the distance and old buildings. Today all has changed. The Dover Cast...

Great Dover Street c1963. X.png Following a telephone call, police found two sacks containing £50,000 of stolen money in this phone box, wrong phone box. ;) Great Dover Street, 1963. The Great Train Robbery, money in a phone box. I know it was the wrong phone box. X..png I was in that phone box opp...

John Harvard Senior School for Boys. I went to school here in the early 1950s. When the nearby Blackfriars Senior School for Boys was destroyed by a fire, the school amalgamated with the Orange Street Senior School for Boys and became known as the John Harvard Senior School for Boys. The School was...

I was at john Harvard 1954-58 and was subjected to "sir" Osman's bowling in the cricket nets , a sort of initiation test for new boys. My first lesson was with Mr Mann who addressed us all with the definition of woman " Woe-unto-Man" off course we didn't know what he meant at the...

hi Fosney, Re your picture of R W Spicers in Guy St se1 We lived just around the corner at 107 Weston Street in 1940/50 and my mum worked in Spicers office . I remember the boss had a Jowett Javelin car (the equivalent to an E-Type then). Would you know the name of the factory/mill next door to our ...