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Post by paduard on Nov 8, 2019 14:49:41 GMT 1
Re-reading this topic - all the details are still a mystery in some respects. Perhaps because many have passed away so to speak.Something or somethings do not appear as quite right. Never mind for everyone likes a mystery I suppose.
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Post by paduard on May 12, 2019 22:09:49 GMT 1
Glad to learn that 7000 figure has been passed. [smile]
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Post by paduard on Feb 21, 2019 20:30:42 GMT 1
The only thing us chaps were not looking forward to was doing National Service at age 18. Mucked up all the early contacts - especially the girls!!.
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Post by paduard on Dec 1, 2018 21:56:14 GMT 1
Musing on 'Brooks' Just thought I would reflect on my first visit with my friend Tony. Both confronted with Mr. Brook Bayley (imaculatly dressed) and we paid the fee to him, went in for the lessons, and after Mrs. Brook Bayley had introduced (so to speak) us all girls to boys - thought at the time that "all our Christmas had come at once". Put this on now as after all Christmas is upon us.
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Post by paduard on Oct 9, 2018 21:45:08 GMT 1
Maybe not so many as I had thought; for in the early days population was much smaller and sometimes it was said that everyone knew everyone. Cannot say of that today. Sad perhaps in a certain way of looking at things.
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Post by paduard on Jul 14, 2018 12:19:51 GMT 1
Another example, but Penge for this i.e. The Market, bottom right down Maple Road. Any reflections? paduard
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Post by paduard on May 18, 2018 19:12:02 GMT 1
Just one small example - Anerley Hill Road going down Maple Road to Hawthorn Road is Anerley; from there to the bottom of Maple Road is Penge.
There are probably quite a few conversations, and names etc., that specifically relate to Anerley. I will try to open the topic out.
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Post by paduard on May 17, 2018 16:12:53 GMT 1
I am not sure, but it might be a good idea to have an Anerley section thus separated from Penge and Beckenham??
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Post by paduard on May 1, 2018 16:52:32 GMT 1
I had a word with an old friend of mine today, and who went to Avenue School of Dancing, and she reminded me that this venue was generally referred to as “Brooks” - for short that is.
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Post by paduard on Apr 23, 2018 15:23:11 GMT 1
Unfortunately in my day there were many Pam's/or Pamela's - quite a common name.
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Post by paduard on Jan 31, 2018 15:48:41 GMT 1
You might find a loose connection between this and the subject Lost & Found in the general section. paduard
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2017
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Post by paduard on Dec 28, 2017 16:37:48 GMT 1
Happy New Year to one and all. paduard Ditto for 2018 paduard
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Post by paduard on Nov 6, 2017 16:33:48 GMT 1
A flashback - Woolworth girl was 'pam'. Regret no flashback on surname. paduard
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Post by paduard on Aug 28, 2017 20:54:08 GMT 1
I was born in 1938 and lived at 76 Orchard Avenue, Shirley. I went to early school at 'Holly Lodge' primary that I think I remember as an old Victorian Building. Often my mother would walk with me but on a few occasions I rode my 'Fairy Cycle' on my own as she thought I knew the way well enough. I did know the way but not the rules of the road and very nearly got killed as I emerged into the (Penge? Rd.) at full speed neither looking left nor right. It so frightened a car driver that he stopped and made his way back to the school where he gave me a dressing down in front of the school. I went on to Whitgift School South Croydon and at 18/19 took a gap year at a Beckenham firm called Muirhead, no longer there as it was taken over by GEC. Whilst there I worked in the Facsimile Laboratory under chief engineer Peter Sieber (Muirhead invented the facsimile machine and the CEO, Ray Brown, was the first to use it in his office.) Recently, i took my grandson to the Science Museum and there on the main floor was the very machine on display in a glass case as a historical piece of technology (I earned a patent on a bit of tech inside it.) I knew then that I was very old. PCM Thanks for that.God Bless. paduard
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Post by paduard on Apr 9, 2017 18:53:02 GMT 1
Just recently it came to my mind that, when referring to 'class', it might have also been a matter of "accent"; especially for Londoners.
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