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by paperboy
Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:38 am
Forum: History & War Years
Topic: Ben Suggitt and Charlie Perkins
Replies: 0
Views: 13238

Ben Suggitt and Charlie Perkins

Ben Suggitt from Star Place on Bermondsey Street was my great uncle. He and Charlie Perkins from Alscot Road both signed up for tthe army together, went through training together and died together at Passchendaele on the same day in 1917. You can read their stories on my website at http://www.kenrip...
by paperboy
Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:33 am
Forum: Bermondsey People
Topic: Put a Name to a Face - People you may know
Replies: 75
Views: 156882

Re: Put a Name to a Face - People you may know

This was taken outside a pub in the New Kent Road. It was probably either the Prince Consort or the Crown and Anchor. Date = circa 1938. My father, Bill Ripper, is in the second row with squiggly lines on his tie. Billy Northwood is standing next to him, but I don't know which side.
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by paperboy
Sun Mar 05, 2017 10:43 am
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Alice Street
Replies: 13
Views: 15662

Re: Alice Street

That picture of Alice Street in the 1930s has a lady on the pavement on the extreme right. My mum tells me that's my Nan, that is! Susan Bullion was her name and she lived in Bermondsey most of her life. She died in one of the flats on the Arnold Estate, off Druid Street, in 1968. The family had liv...
by paperboy
Fri Feb 24, 2017 11:01 am
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: Parkers Row
Replies: 38
Views: 40266

Re: Parkers Row

This extract from GoogleEarth has been taken from underneath the railway arch at the northern end of Rouel Road. The arrow at point A indicates just about where the entrance to the Cambridge University Mission used to be. The letter B on the white van locates a newspaper shop which was there in the ...
by paperboy
Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:57 am
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: LINDSEY STREET.
Replies: 14
Views: 16126

Re: LINDSEY STREET.

Linsey Street about 1963 ... are the shops the same buildings I ask? -fosney The very same two buildings as were there in the 1960s; both were lock up shops as they are today. At number 20 was the greegrocer's shop (which was run by Ivy who lived almost opposite at number 17) and Parnell's the groce...
by paperboy
Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:55 am
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: LINDSEY STREET.
Replies: 14
Views: 16126

Re: LINDSEY STREET.

So .. millylinseyst .. who are the lady and the baby on the right? The back wall is Lipton's factory.
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by paperboy
Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:52 am
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: LINDSEY STREET.
Replies: 14
Views: 16126

Re: LINDSEY STREET.

It was 'Chick's' until my Dad and Mum took it over. It was renamed 'Sheila's' - my little sister's name. The infant in the pic is my little brother, Ray, on his first birthday in August 1963. His birthday was celebrated amongst other Linsey Street residents on the grass next to Parnell's shop. 3eaf7...
by paperboy
Sat Feb 18, 2017 1:44 am
Forum: Buildings & Streets
Topic: LINDSEY STREET.
Replies: 14
Views: 16126

LINDSEY STREET.

The sweet shop in Linsey Street was known as Sheila's when we were there and Chick's before that. The shops opposite us were a greengrocer's run by Ivy who lived at 17 Linsey Street and a grocer's run by Mr and Mrs Parnell who lived at 3 Helen Taylor House behind the lock-up. When we were, slum clea...

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