jates
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Post by jates on Jan 8, 2011 22:17:08 GMT 1
HI EVERYONE! JUST NEW TO FORUM. JAN 2011. WAS BLOWN AWAY WITH EVERYONE'S MEMORIES. I WAS WAS BORN IN STONEPARK HOSPITAL (WAS THAT THE SAME AS BECKENHAM MATERNITY HOSPITAL?) 1942 DURING THE WAR. LIVED IN BECKENHAM FOR 19 YEARS THEN IMMIGRATED CALIFORNIA USA IN 1961. BUT I HAVE SUCH VIVID MEMORIES OF THOSE FIRST 19 YEARS. I COULD WRITE VOLUMES! (HOPE NOBODY IS OFFENDED BY CAPS. IT EASIER TO TYPE WITH ARTHRITIC HANDS. (AND NO I DON'T MEAN TO BE SHOUTING)
HERE'S SOME THINGS THAT COME TO MEMORY.
WENT TO MARION VIAN (VINE) SCHOOL (WALKED TO SWIMMING CLASS AT BECKENHAM BATHS). TRANSFERED TO HAWES DOWN SCHOOL. WORK AT MUIRHEAD CO (NEXT DOOR TO TWINLOCKS. APPRENTICE WELDER (MY COUSIN WORKED AT TWINLOCKS) THEN GOT A JOB AT BURROUGHS AND WELCOME. (MY MUM AND SISTER WORKED THERE TO. AROUND 1958) THEN WORKED AT BECKENHAM COTTAGE HOSPITAL ON AS PORTER 1959. (LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE RENOVATING THE PLACE ON GOOGLE EARTH). I REMEMBER WALKING THRU KELSY PARK WITH A GIRLFRIEND. MY COUSINS ARE THE LATHEMS UPPER ELMERS END ROAD. THEY STILL OPERATE AS LATHEM SKIPS. LIVED ON AYLESFORD AVE. (MY DAD DROVE A 194 BUS. YOU MAY HAVE RODE ON HIS BUS). MY UNCLE AND AUNT LIVED ON BURNHILL RD NEAR THE TUNS. I REMEMBER GOING TO THE SAT MORNING PICTURES AT THE REGAL AND THE ODEON ELMERS END. SUCH GREAT MEMORIES! STILL HAVE RELATIVES LIVING THERE I LIVED IN BECKENHAM 1942 - 1961. WAS THAT YOUR TIME PERIOD. LOVE TO HERE YOUR STORIES....JATES
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Post by tenorhornusa on Jan 13, 2011 13:58:09 GMT 1
I also was born at Stonepark Hospital in 1945, went to Marian Vian, Hawes Down and liived on Aylesford Ave. I remeber a V2 rocket standing outside the Regal just after WW II. The cafe nect to Lathamn's had a wonderful mural on the wall. Also served fabulous fish and chips. The ownwers were Pete and Ida. I was a member of 1903, Penge, Sqaudron ATC and my Dad was a Flying Officer in the RAFVR attached to the squadron. I played in the band and every Sunday moring we would march from the Victorian house on the corner of Penge High St. that housed us to a school in Anerly. Fond memories
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Post by jill on May 20, 2011 5:25:06 GMT 1
wonderful memories of mistrale club 1969 when i would go about 3 times a week. knew chris singleton,sue & sheila. lyn & cindy (good dancers) steve & liz. terry & andy and dave at the door and dj dave mitchell. where are they all now?loved the music i was 16 then met my 1st boyfriend there! remember junior walkers 'how sweet it is to be loved by you' played at 9pm to start the night and 'goodnight my love' ben e king to end the night. are there any re-union nights organised? i used to go to the bali hai in streatham on a sunday
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Post by Pete on Jul 17, 2011 13:50:22 GMT 1
wonderful memories of mistrale club 1969 when i would go about 3 times a week. knew chris singleton,sue & sheila. lyn & cindy (good dancers) steve & liz. terry & andy and dave at the door and dj dave mitchell. where are they all now?loved the music i was 16 then met my 1st boyfriend there! remember junior walkers 'how sweet it is to be loved by you' played at 9pm to start the night and 'goodnight my love' ben e king to end the night. are there any re-union nights organised? i used to go to the bali hai in streatham on a sunday Jill, there's another thread on here relating to the Mistrale Club (formerly Beckenham Ballrooms) you might like to read. I also remember the Bali Hai in Streatham - our band (The Unattached) played there supporting The Mindbenders in 1966 - it was a revolving stage and we came on first and played their latest song (Groovey Kind Of Love) BEFORE they came on - they were not amused! ;D
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Post by brianvickers on Sept 1, 2011 16:09:55 GMT 1
Have just discovered this site......great as I grew up in Beckenham too. Went to Balgowan Primary school , then Marian vine junior and after that to Hawes Down in west wickham. Played in a band called the Burnettes during the early sixties with all sorts of people who were around Beckenham at the time. Met David Jones ( now Bowie ) when he played sax for the Konrads at Justin Hall and Peter Frampton when he played in the Trubeats and then the Herd. We cut a demo disk in Robertsons music shop, which was on the bend of Beckenham high st, on the day of Winston Churchills funeral in 1965. They had a record section upstairs and a small recording studio too, which was being manned that day by Peter Frampton behind the desk! I used to live in Glanfield Rd off of Village Way , and walked down Village way thousands of times on my way to the Regal cinema and later the dance hall next door above it. I still remember going to the Three Tuns pub and then the Jade room Chinese next door......happy days
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Post by joykentishmaid on Sept 6, 2011 22:50:26 GMT 1
Brian, ditto some of that :-) I lived in Durban Road.
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Pete
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Post by Pete on Nov 25, 2011 22:10:13 GMT 1
Hi Brian, was that Pip Blakemore & The Burnettes by any chance? I can relate to everything else too, good days! Pete
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Post by brianvickers on Dec 1, 2011 13:31:29 GMT 1
YES it was ...although we only ever played one gig with him and hundreds as just the Burnettes.......there is a very good book called ROCKIN CROYDON that documents the band scene at the time very well..............cheers brian
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Post by Pete on Dec 21, 2011 22:58:25 GMT 1
Hi Brian, and sorry for the late reply, it's been a mad month here! This means you would have played at the Wickham Goes Pop concerts then, along with The Trubeats, The Konrads and my own group, The Aces. I've added a couple of posts to the site regarding that, along with another in which I asked about the record shop on the High Street (Robertsons). I also came across a poster for the second Pop concert, Wickham Goes Pop 2 in November 1963, of which I have now added to my original Wickham Goes Pop post, so you will see your band name right up there! It's good to hear everyone's memories and be able to go back! Pete
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Post by brianvickers on Dec 23, 2011 16:40:11 GMT 1
I play at the "jam night" Bulls Head , pratts bottom every month, and one of the guys that sometimes turns up, used to be the drummer with the ACES............small world isn't it.........cheers brian
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Post by Pete on Dec 30, 2011 15:35:00 GMT 1
WoW! that's amazing ;D, that must be Kenny Clarke then... please pass on my best wishes. We have spoken since, but not for a long time now. I'm still in the process of trying to move back home to Kent, so as soon as this happens (if someone would only buy my house) I'll drop in to the Bull's Head and join you! Thanks for mentioning that, and a Happy new year to both you and Ken. I play at the "jam night" Bulls Head , pratts bottom every month, and one of the guys that sometimes turns up, used to be the drummer with the ACES............small world isn't it.........cheers brian
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Post by petefish on Oct 16, 2012 23:50:52 GMT 1
Brian and Pete, remember Robertsons well, didn't they have cubicles to listen to the records before you bought them. Regular at the Three Tunns with my dad, old Bill Neale, used to chain his pushbike to the railings outside the Jade. We all used to pile into the Jade on a Friday night for a bowl of chicken and sweatcorn soup. Brian your name rings a bell, did you know my brothers John and Brian Neale ? What about late drinks in the snooker club, was it above a car showroom ? Used to live in Manor View.
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Post by Pete on Nov 22, 2012 20:50:07 GMT 1
I have only vague memories of Robertsons as I always used Normans music shop (opposite, on the corner of Village Way) or Art Nash in Penge, but yes, I do believe they had the record booths. My outstanding memory of Robertsons was drooling down the plate glass window at a brand new sunburst Fender Stratocaster - £125, way over my budget, even in those days!
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Post by paduard on Dec 4, 2013 23:23:29 GMT 1
I found this topic recently - very interesting.
My Uncle Bob & Aunt Winn lived in Durban Road throughout 1930's-at least 1960's. Unfortunately they have both died, as also Jimmy who was my cousin. He had a sister Joan, but we lost track of her long ago.
Uncle Bob was an inspector [quite high up] on Southern Railway and was instrumental in getting my dad a job on that line; he worked at Hither Green and travelled there from Penge East Station. As a result my family got privilege tickets.
Cannot remember the number of their road - visited it a few times when very young - but memory seems to think it was a semi - possibly built in the 1920/1930's.
Just put this on in case anyone recognised the names.
Happy Christmas. Paduard
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Post by peter52 on Dec 8, 2013 1:04:35 GMT 1
Since most of the posts are of a musical nature, I remember coming home for lunch while attending Beckenham & Penge Grammar School in Penge, and dropping autograph books off at Bill Wyman's home just over the road from where I still live in Birkbeck Road. Bill would invariably come to the door in cords and bedroom slippers, take the books and I'd collect them a few days later signed by all of the Stones. The whole family watched their first TV appearance on "Ready Steady Go" in 1964 and they regularly all used to turn up in a dirty old Bedford van, jump out and run into Bill's. The story goes that Mick Jagger used to shin up the drainpipe at the front of the house and pull faces at the old lady living in the upstairs flat!
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