Famous Beormundians
Oh, Jimmy Bean was a funny looking fellow
If he had a bigger mouth, you'd took him for the cellar
But his mouth--
Queered him-
From winning a beauty show
It was like a steam boat funnel,
or a railway arch,
or the Blackwall Tunnel,
If you can't-
See Jim-
When he opens his mouth, you'll know.
And as poor Jim goes walkin' about-
You can 'ear the kids all 'ollerin' out..
Chorus:
What a mouth, What a mouth,
What a North and South
Blimey, what a mouth he's got.
When he was a baby, me lord, gawd luv' 'er
well 'is poor old mother used to feed 'im with a shovel
What a gap--
Poor chap--
He's never been known to laugh
For if he did, it's a penny to a quid
That his face would fall in 'alf!
He got so drunk one foggy morn
He laid in the road and he started to yawn
And a poor
Old man
Was delivering coals close by
And as he went to shoot the load
He saw Jim's mouth out in the road
Chorus:
What a mouth, What a mouth,
What a North and South
Blimey, what a mouth he's got.
Now the poor old man bein' a short-sighted fellow
When he saw Jim's mouth, he took it for the cellar
And he shot
The lot
Right into his mouth, no joke
Jim poor soul's got a belly full of coal
And he coughs up lumps of coke - Oi!
Would that be the "Cock & Monkey", Neptune Street (just off Lower Road)?
That's the one, mate!
Phil (Bermondsey Beat)
George Fisher - born in Bermondsey on 19th June 1925 played for Millwall from 1946 to 1955 and went to school with my Mum and that's famous enough for me!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fisher_(footballer)
here are 12 great kids, my g'kids.
bermondsey kids
HI EVERYONE
Just wondered if we could add another talented Bermondsey
person to the Famous Beormundians Forum.
The person being Author Harry Bowling who was born in Leroy Street in 1931.I
was told many years ago that he lived above my Nan's flat In Swan Mead. Harry
had eighteen best-selling novels, his first being Conner Street War published
in 1987, sadly Harry died in 1999.Harry’s novels are all about Bermondsey and his
memories of family life as it once was lived in the slums of South-East London. If you like a good read and
you haven’t come across Harry’s books then give it ago.
There is a Harry Bowling Prize which was set-up in memory of
Harry to encourage new, unpublished fiction and is sponsored by Headline.
I was wondering because I am curious or is it nosey, if
boxer Joe Rolfe’s wife Ellen Bowling, they married in 1919 was related to Harry?
Just a thought. Maybe Chris (C.J Walsh) might know.
KIWI
he illustrated a book of cockney songs - there was also a programme that he was in - he lived down the docks and when the siren went off, he was in bermondsey with his brothers and sisters, they were going to shelter at the local school, anyway their mums friend saw them and called them over to stay with her. In the morning they found out that the school that they were going to shelter in was bombed (I think its the keeton road school) they're mum was overjoyed when she realised that they were still alive. Apparently he was so haunted by the memory of his friends going to their deaths that he commemerated them in his drawings.
