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Posted by bermondseygal

Hi Ian!

I just sent you a private message!

You got around to posting the pic of the Joy slide then!
It looks great on the forum!

Lesley

Posted by ianmartin 32398328471_63c693c344_z (1).jpg I have since emailed the Parks Department at Southwark Borough Council, as yet with no response, I have been told to wait until next week before chasing them further, I suppose it was always likely to be neglect or Health & Safety tha...

Posted by dibley47 I wonder if Bermondsey could obtain lottery money to rebuild this wonderfully nostalgic and architecturally beautiful slide? Posted by ianmartin Hi Maureen Wouldn't it be fantastic!?! My thoughts exactly, I like your choice of words in describing the slide, it was, after all, uni...

Posted by dibley47

I wonder if Bermondsey could obtain lottery money to rebuild this wonderfully nostalgic and architecturally beautiful slide?

Posted by ianmartin

Hi Lesley!

Must have walked past your place loads of times!

Maybe? We'll never know!

Yes, I'm glad I went....many changes......plan a few more visits now too.

All the best to you too!

Ian

Posted by bermondseygal

Hi Ian!

I lived in the prefabs in Frean Street.
Yes...maybe we played on the slide at the same time!
Glad to hear you went to Bermondsey last Thursday. I bet there were quite a few changes!

All the best!

Lesley

Posted by ianmartin Wow Don't apologise to me gal, I've not seen this one before! The 60s was my time too, maybe we 'slid' at the same time!?!? I was only ever a visitor though, my Nan lived in Giles House, just along the road, I was christened at St James's and my parents got married there too. I ...

Posted by bermondseygal B0098-OPB-P1 St James Slide.jpg My apologies if this pic has been posted before! It's of the opening of the Joy Slide in St. James's churchyard in 1921. The man in the photo is Arthur Carr, Chairman of Peek Frean, who donated the slide to the children of Bermondsey. Looks li...

Posted by bermbird

Paterson Park

Pictures are from different angles but never the less its the same place.

Posted by freddie The two pictures of "Tower Bridge" are taken from different positions. The 1900's shot shows the view from Queen Elizabeth Street probably taken from the bank building (shown on the corner of Tooley Street in the google earth/google street view below). The bank and the T...