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- Sun Apr 28, 2019 4:30 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Pages Walk
- Replies: 35
- Views: 63938
Re: Pages Walk
This is a photo of my granddad Charlie Voss sitting in Cookseys scrapyard in Pages Walk almost at the site of the bomb where his sister was killed.
- Sun Apr 28, 2019 4:25 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Pages Walk
- Replies: 35
- Views: 63938
Re: Pages Walk
My great Aunt Rose Stapleton was killed with her two young sons Edward and Frederick when a bomb hit their house on the corner of Pages Walk and Grange Road on 15th November 1940. This building must be named after her.
- Sun Oct 07, 2018 3:17 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Spa Road
- Replies: 64
- Views: 91022
Re: Spa Road
My Dad who is now 88 and lived in Keyes Road ( formerly Alfred Street) told me recently that he remembers the pillar box on the corner of Spa Road opposite the Town Hall being blown up by the IRA in their bombing campaign in London just about when the War started in 1939/1940.
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- Wed Jun 28, 2017 7:18 pm
- Forum: Pie & Mash
- Topic: The great pie & mash debate
- Replies: 21
- Views: 89978
Re: The great pie & mash debate
My brother lives in Cornwall now but he orders a big box of Pies and liquor from Manzies every few months. They freeze well so he has a bit of Bermondsey in Cornwall every week. My Dad and I however must be the only Bermondsey boys who DONT LIKE pie and mash. My Dad wont eat a pie unless my Mum make...
- Wed Jun 28, 2017 3:35 pm
- Forum: Buildings & Streets
- Topic: Leroy Street
- Replies: 25
- Views: 33135
Re: Leroy Street
George Horton was my Granddad. He was the porter ay Guinness Buildings from before the War up until the old blocks were demolished. He used to sweep the grounds every day with a great big broom. He called it his yard broom and I always though it was because it was three feet across. My brother and I...
- Wed Jun 28, 2017 2:57 pm
- Forum: Docklands and Waterways
- Topic: Tooley Street area Wharfs
- Replies: 49
- Views: 129307
Re: Tooley Street area Wharfs
and this is my Granddad Charlie Voss working under the Hays Wharf at low tide.
- Wed Jun 28, 2017 2:53 pm
- Forum: Docklands and Waterways
- Topic: Tooley Street area Wharfs
- Replies: 49
- Views: 129307
Re: Tooley Street area Wharfs
My Dad, Bill Voss was a blacksmith at Hays Wharf in Tooley Street in the 1950s and 60s. He is shown on the left of the photo with all his colleagues from the Blacksmiths shop. You can still see some of his iron work on some of the older buildings in the Tooley Street area.