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by nuttyboy pat
Mon Dec 17, 2018 4:21 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: PEEK FREAN.
Replies: 41
Views: 80653

Re: PEEK FREAN (Free Biscuits)

4622465368.jpg When we were nippers in the early 60's my mum got a job in Peek Freans. I can remember vividly me and my brother struggling to carry home a huge plastic bag full of broken biscuits over my shoulders on a Friday evening. These were the throw- out biscuits that nobody wanted, but it wa...
by nuttyboy pat
Mon Dec 17, 2018 4:07 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Dunton Road
Replies: 22
Views: 28824

Re: Dunton Road True Love

Picture 097 copy.jpg When I was a nipper, 11 years or so, I fell madly in love with a girl at St Josephs School called Tina. When I found out that she lived on Dunton Road in the Ash House estate only about a mile from where I lived I decided to walk our pet dog every night, weekends too, past her ...
by nuttyboy pat
Mon Dec 17, 2018 3:21 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Abbey Street
Replies: 67
Views: 91831

Re: Abbey Street

c61c168ebc9532336721235103d42a929afcb139.jpg When we lived in Abbey Buildings, Abbey Street I remember a small mini supermarket beside our flats (bottom left of the picture) which mainly catered for the Abbey Buildings residents. One day my mum asked me to go and get a few things from the shop and ...
by nuttyboy pat
Mon Oct 08, 2018 2:49 pm
Forum: General Postings
Topic: St.Michael's School, John Felton Road, Dockhead
Replies: 2
Views: 9185

Re: St.Michael's School, John Felton Road, Dockhead

Hiya

Sorry so late to reply. I hope this old photo of St Michaels school badge will help???

nuttypat (ex St Michaels)
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by nuttyboy pat
Sun Mar 25, 2018 8:12 am
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Abbey Street
Replies: 67
Views: 91831

Re: Abbey Street

What a great picture of the Royal George Pub. I remember as kids we would scour the local bins behind Abbey Buildings looking for empty beer bottles so we could return them to the Royal George via a tiny room at the front of the pub which was the off license, we were given a biscuit as a return depo...
by nuttyboy pat
Wed Feb 21, 2018 3:12 pm
Forum: Member's Short Stories
Topic: Abbey Buildings Boy!
Replies: 4
Views: 12905

Re: Abbey Buildings Boy!

Hi Merv.
What a great story about the lives of you and your family in and around Bermondsey! Sometimes my generation and others don't really appreciate what thousands of people like yourself went through during the blitz. It was a pleasure to read your story Merv.

All the best!
by nuttyboy pat
Wed Jan 10, 2018 2:41 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Grange Road
Replies: 99
Views: 114025

Re: Grange Road

What a great photo! I recall on many occasions me and my mates would spend most of the day in that derelict pub just mucking about and if memory serves me this was also the entrance to the Spa Park too where I got bashed in the face by my brother on the swing one day and had to walk all the way to G...
by nuttyboy pat
Wed Oct 25, 2017 6:26 pm
Forum: General Postings
Topic: FILMS/TV IN PLACES WE KNOW.
Replies: 52
Views: 112601

Londons Burning

MUST SEE!
Londons Burning on drama Freeview ch 20 daily at 8am, have seen so many clips from in and round Bermondsey! Saw Blue Watch hurtling up Abbey Street this morning. What a blast from the past! Brilliant series.
by nuttyboy pat
Sat Oct 21, 2017 11:19 am
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Grange Road
Replies: 99
Views: 114025

Re: Grange Road Swimmers

As kids going swimming on a Saturday morning was so much fun, not only did we get out of our parents hair for the day we also got a weekly wash at the same time! I remember on one occasion when we were told to get out of the pool we would always take our time or hide in the pool at the deep end and ...
by nuttyboy pat
Thu Oct 19, 2017 5:57 pm
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: The Grange
Replies: 13
Views: 19645

Re: The Grange

We use to hang out with the Wards who lived in the first house on Grange Walk next to the Red Cow pub. Had great fun running in and out of the pub being chased by the landlord and his staff! Gerrard Ward was one of my mates that lived there, I wonder whats he doing now and how his life has been?

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