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- Tue Mar 14, 2017 3:24 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Reverdy Road
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9087
Reverdy Road
Being repeated on TV tonight 8pm Tues Mar 14 2017. Freeview Channel 8 London Live - Secret Streets (Reverdy Road).
- Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:39 am
- Forum: General Postings
- Topic: MYSTERY-DO YOU RECOGNISE THESE PLACES OR PEOPLE?
- Replies: 66
- Views: 128687
Re: MYSTERY-DO YOU RECOGNISE THESE PLACES?
http://maps.southwark.gov.uk/connect/southwark.jsp?mapcfg=Historical_Selection&x=533636&y=177905&z=11 Without the image it's a bit difficult to know, Kiwi. Have a look at the link above. This is a map of the junction of Cobourg Road and Longcroft Road. You'll nee to scroll to the west t...
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 4:54 pm
- Forum: General Postings
- Topic: Bermondsey Advertisments
- Replies: 152
- Views: 198912
Re: Bermondsey Advertisments
Loads of adverts from the 1960 Bermondsey Official Guide can be seen here .. http://www.kenripper.co.uk/london.htm
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:40 pm
- Forum: Pie & Mash
- Topic: Eels
- Replies: 1
- Views: 18102
Eels
Once every couple of weeks (probably around the end of the 1950s) my Mum would send me to the wet fish shop on Jamaica Road, between Sun Passage and Thurland Road. I would be required to select three live eels from those slithering in the galvanised tank. The fishmonger would then use a large cleave...
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:35 pm
- Forum: Pie & Mash
- Topic: The great pie & mash debate
- Replies: 21
- Views: 88156
Re: The great pie & mash debate
I was advised, when I was a nipper, that you were given a knife and fork to eat your meal and a spoon to clump the cockroaches as they scuttled across the table.
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:32 pm
- Forum: General Postings
- Topic: New Forum
- Replies: 6
- Views: 28483
New Forum
Nice work, Steve.
Excellent site and such a breath of fresh air after the previous provider!
Excellent site and such a breath of fresh air after the previous provider!
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:27 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Thurland Road
- Replies: 63
- Views: 81095
Re: St. James's church
When I was a lad, Mr Tibbitt of 53 Rouel Road told me this tale - around 1966. He was a firewatcher or ARP or something like that during WW2. Lord Haw Haw came on the radio to say that St James' Church in Bermondsey was to be bombed that night, proving the accuracy of Luftwaffe bombing. Sure enough,...
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:04 am
- Forum: Bermondsey People
- Topic: Mary Ripper
- Replies: 5
- Views: 25586
Mary Ripper
As many of you will know - my Mum, Mary Ripper (she'll be 95 years of age in May 2017), still lives independently in Bermondsey. Here's our latest anecdote of this indomitable lady. She was out shopping down the Blue a week or two back and popped into Thorogoods (furniture, carpets etc). There she s...
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:54 am
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Pages Walk
- Replies: 35
- Views: 63734
Bermondsey Central, Pages' Walk
10_09.jpg 10_07.jpg 10_04.jpg Before Bacon's School moved from Grange Road to Pages' Walk, the building was occupied by Bermondsey Central School. Here are three class photos from 1951-6 (or thereabouts) from Bermondsey Central. The uniform was brown with a yellow badge. My elder brother, Bill Ripp...
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:42 am
- Forum: History & War Years
- Topic: War Memorials
- Replies: 17
- Views: 50568
War Memorials
The number of people who were commemorated on war memorials at one time in Bermondsey is far greater than those we see on war memorials today. Some, from WW1, were lost in the bombing in WW2. Some have been lost as churches and other have been demolished in the cause of progress and redevelopment. I...