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Post by paduard on Dec 9, 2013 23:20:15 GMT 1
Sorry I forgot in my contribution above to mention my Uncle's surname - it was Turner. Apologies.
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Post by Pete on Apr 29, 2014 17:13:19 GMT 1
Great Rolling Stones story Pete52! :-)
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Post by Pete on Oct 4, 2015 17:21:35 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! Great Rolling Stones story Pete! I can relate to the shinning up the drainpipe bit as my father used to live in a similar house on Blandford Road, they were maisonettes apparently with one family upstairs and one down.
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Post by Pete on Oct 4, 2015 17:38:36 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 Hi again Brian (for the attention of Brian Vickers). I have tried to add a link (below) to the Wickham Goes Pop poster I have, posted elsewhere on the site, showing your band's name (The Burnettes) and mine, The Aces. I hope you get to see it, if you haven't already, and that the link works OK. If not, let me know and I will send you a copy of the poster. mcleanmuir.proboards.com/attachment/download/6
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Post by squidgestar on Apr 2, 2018 12:46:38 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 I would be interested if you have any photos or memories about your time as a cadet at 1903 Squadron. Please send any info to penge1903@gmail.com
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Post by premieji on Sept 30, 2020 0:56:05 GMT 1
Hi - just joined. I was born 1949 in one of a row of cottages linked by a right of way path called Mount Pleasant - The opening to the Mount Pleasant cottages and gardens was off Stanmore Terrace (which was off Kelsey Park Road). Google maps does not show Mount Pleasant, only car parking where the houses used to be. Does anyone know what happened to the area and when? I am tracing my baby steps and would like to find the cottages or what happened to them. I was pleased to find Thornton’s Corner still preserved. I have fond memories as a 4 year old, leading the rag and bone man’s horse into the gardens to feed on the flowers! I’d be very grateful for any information about the area. Mount Pleasant was still there in early 1960’s. Thank you 🙏
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Post by The Historian on Oct 10, 2020 2:47:48 GMT 1
Hi - just joined. I was born 1949 in one of a row of cottages linked by a right of way path called Mount Pleasant - The opening to the Mount Pleasant cottages and gardens was off Stanmore Terrace (which was off Kelsey Park Road). Google maps does not show Mount Pleasant, only car parking where the houses used to be. Does anyone know what happened to the area and when? I am tracing my baby steps and would like to find the cottages or what happened to them. I was pleased to find Thornton’s Corner still preserved. I have fond memories as a 4 year old, leading the rag and bone man’s horse into the gardens to feed on the flowers! I’d be very grateful for any information about the area. Mount Pleasant was still there in early 1960’s. Thank you 🙏 Hi, I am sure Mount Pleasant is still there, however the area did get bombed in WW2. I will go and have a look.
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Post by foxgrove on Apr 15, 2021 8:19:16 GMT 1
Hi I've just joined. I lived at 81 Foxgrove Road and 27 Manor Road in 1949/55 and went to Bromley Road School and Clare House. I was born at 128 High St Penge in 1941.
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Post by diane on Jun 7, 2022 15:50:36 GMT 1
I went to balgowan then marian vian after That cator park. We lived in crossways!
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