Can anyone remember George and Eileen Purser, the tenants at the Lord Palmerston, Lucey Road, back in the 60's?
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- Tue Nov 29, 2022 12:48 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Lucey Road
- Replies: 12
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- Fri May 14, 2021 6:09 pm
- Forum: History & War Years
- Topic: Druid Street Arch Bombing
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Re: Druid Street Arch Bombing
My father John Sales was a 17 year old on stretcher parties at the time, he was the first one back in there after the bomb. Needless to say the scene was beyond horrible. After that they took him off stretcher parties. When he was 18 he volunteered for the RAF ( rather than be conscripted into the a...
- Fri May 07, 2021 11:24 am
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Apples and Pears 1972
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- Views: 57305
Re: Apples and Pears 1972
That was their big song also played the Albert in new cross what ever became of the yayas ?
- Thu May 06, 2021 3:36 pm
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Apples and Pears 1972
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Re: Apples and Pears 1972
Does anyone remember a band called ' a bigger splash' they had a residency there about 1980. Great little pub rockers.
- Thu May 06, 2021 3:33 pm
- Forum: Pie & Mash
- Topic: always makes me laugh
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always makes me laugh
My mother was brought up in Woolf Street, Dockhead.
She says that their house was close to the pie shop and a bell rang every now and again.
Her mother Nell Simms, born 1901, told her that it meant they'd caught another cat!
She says that their house was close to the pie shop and a bell rang every now and again.
Her mother Nell Simms, born 1901, told her that it meant they'd caught another cat!
- Thu May 06, 2021 11:24 am
- Forum: Bermondsey People
- Topic: Corner shop Sweeney Crescent Nell Newton
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Corner shop Sweeney Crescent Nell Newton
My grandmother Nell Newton, maiden name Simms had the corner shop in Sweeney Crescent, Dockhead for many years fro late 40s to 1966. Does anyone remember the shop? My father and mother were both Bermondsey people, married in St James. My dad's name was John Sales my mother's Nellie but she hated the...