BermondseyBoy

Remember seeing the MB logos on the MB trucks coming in and out of the Metal Box factory all day long in Riley Road Bermondsey

Came across this photo and it reminded me when we use to see Policeman on these bikes. They were so slow we use to chase after them up the street, much to the annoyance of the rider! By the time he turned round to tell us off, we had legged it! They were Velocette LE Motorcycles, the LE stood for Li...

What a marvellous video to watch! I don't remember the trams when they were about but after watching this fascinating video it certainly stirred some memories of my youth in SE London.

This may have already been covered as it happened in 2015 when a WWII unexploded bomb was discovered during digging on a building site on The Grange. Bomb_1.jpg I have only just come across this article and when I realised exactly where the unexploded bomb was located it sent shivers up and down my ...

When I was a nipper my mum, brother and me always looked forward to our trips to the East Lane market on a Saturday morning as there was always something happening there! One of the most memorable sites was the guy with a suitcase or a box turned on its side to play 'Three Card Monte', a con card ga...

I remember the Tooley Street Police with a great passion! We lived in Abbey Buildings and one Sunday morning me and my mate found a handbag covered in glass, so we took it to Tooley Street Police Station to hand it in. The desk Sergeant and Constable must've been a bit bored as they took our fingerp...

Do I remember cream soda and ice-cream?
I'am in my sixties and still have this on a Sunday after lunch

Remember when Saturday night was bath night???
Showed my son how we use to bath and he was absolutely horrified

Back in the 70's on our back home from school we would pass Bevingtons on Abbey Street and we would dare each other to go up to the lime pits via the side entrance and look into them! We knew that the factory produced leather but in our child's minds we thought that cows were put into the pits that ...