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Moroccan Red???!
most moroccans are muslims according to wiki :0 |
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No muzzies in my car, unless Muhammad Ali is coming to dinner. :)
I don't eat pork either. |
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Queen Victoria Dock 1960
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Lol BC, Del boys shop, next door to the Polish shop.
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Del Boys has been there about 20 years :)
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The Flying Angel Seamans Mission
When I was a kid me and my my mate got a 'blown' Ostrich egg from a merchant sailor. http://i45.tinypic.com/2uitzz7.jpg |
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Business is slow this month.
A MAN is fighting for his life after being stabbed in Manor Park (Newham) this morning. Police have sealed off street areas after the knifing in the Church Road junction with High Street North at around 10am, writes LEE PEART. Eye witness Steve Randall, 32, said: "I was driving to an appointment when I saw two ambulances racing along Romford Road. "When I entered the high street it was chaos. "There were six police cars with sirens blaring rushing towards me. "At the junction I saw a man lying on his side in dark clothing being treated by an ambulance crew. "A paramedic was frantically trying to resuscitate him. "I could hear a helicopter above, which must have been the hospital rescue team arriving." Police confirmed that they were called to the scene just after 10am where the man, who is believed to be in his 40s, was found with a bloody knife injury. Paramedics managed to revive the seriously injured man who was taken to hospital. Newham detectives are investigating. Moments ago Scotland Yard said "The man remains in a critical condition." There is as yet no information as to the identity of the victim or the motive behind the attack. Anyone with information is urged to call Crimestoppers in confidence at 0800 555 111. |
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JT.
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The Seamans Hopsital near the Docks
This one was demolished (or bombed) and a new two storey one was built in King George Avenue, Custom House. The new one was a haven for those who had fights in the street or in pubs, they used to patch you up and feck you off. Never called the police or wanted any details. Not exactly gentle either. Stitched my hand up back in the early 70s but never joined the tendons together. Not been able to bend my left thumb ever since. All the other local NHS hospital wanted to know everything. http://i46.tinypic.com/2v0e49j.jpg |
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Is anybody looking at these pictures ?
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Charlie, I am . I have a great history in East London / Docklands London. am heading over next month and staying in Greenwich. want to go on a pub crawl on the Fri in a few"locals" but don't want to get me head kicked in as being an outsider....though I love a bit of banter. me mate drinks a bit in New Cross...any good boozers you'd recommend?
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I don't know anything south of the river at all.
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you from the East End? did many dockers live in East End or were the dock areas predominently Bermondsey, Deptford, Milwall etc?
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I'm looking at the pictures. I find them very interesting.
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Custom House, Canning Town, Plaistow, Silvertown and North Woolwich (all parts of Newham) were crammed with dockers.
When they got their severance money a few**ed it away but the majority got out of the Borough with it, to Essex mostly. |
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shweeet as a nut shun
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:-)
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IT WAS MARVELLOUSLY MIGRATED SPARKY
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My dad was the first one in our family not to work in the docks.
His younger brother did though, and he got a massive claim for a dodgy accident in the early 60s. He moved to Woodford Green, which was ultra-posh then, then moved uo Norfolk where he had a house and about a dozen caravans at Heacham Beaches. My gran died in 1962/63. When my grandad and dad died, both in 1977, he sold up and moved to Eastbourne where their sister lived, for the rest of his life. |
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Cheers Charlie.what about the likes of Whitechapel, Wapping, Stepney? East End but not docks orientated? name a few good boozers East of the river for a booze up
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where abouts you from Charlie? do you still live there?
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"im a bit of a nosy git chas" :^0
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isle of dogs......enrys place.....do they still sell friary meax in or around rectory road.
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If you wander into North Woolwich, find the Royal Standard, only 400 yards from the ferry. If the crowd are the same they may seem a bit 'clicquey' at first, but they are all diamonds.
In Plaistow you want the Army and Navy in New Barn Street, the saloon bar, not the public bar. Not a big pub, but it does get busy. No good pubs in Canning Town these days. My local, the Sultan, went to Compulsory Purcahse Order about 3 years ago. I don't know any pubs outside Newham well enough to recommend them. |
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I'm from Custom House, the bit that joins on to Canning Town that nobody has ever heard of. :)
I live in west Norkolk now, got out of London for good in 2005 after serving just over my half century. |
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have you ever been in a turkish bath with nicholas van wotsisface and peter rachman ?
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Cheers Charlie....I probably am a bit nosey lol
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Look at my 16-40 post on the 2nd Feb.
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looked at it already actually. great photos.My uncles wife from milend and she used to teach me ryhming slang when I was a kid....have to try and brush up on it!!West Ham your team yeah?
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This photo is old, but the pub on the far right corner is The Standard.
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West Ham are most definitely NOT my team.
I don't like football. |
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you youngsters ..lol.
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oh.....put me foot in that one lol
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My best mate, Hammer fanatic, so is his son, still lives in Plaistow, on the verge of moving out.
Once he goes, all ties with Newham are finished. No family or mates left in London at all, both daughters live in Barking, which is getting as bad as Newham. Sister moved out aobut 2 years ago. She thought multiculturalism was okay, until she got mugged by a black yob. |
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in fairness black yob may have had a white girlfriend
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I'm actually thinking of moving to London, but will probably stick with Greenwich / Charlton areas.
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use to work in mattersons meats ..plaistow....then to walls ...icecream...in edmonton where im from.
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Mattesons was right outside West Ham station, E15, close to, but not Plaistow, which is E.13
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plaistow on there invoices..ch.
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She thought multiculturalism was okay, until she got mugged by a black yob
What kind of comment is that? Are some people so dense that they judge an entire race on the actions of one member of it? What next? I used to think the Holocaust was bad until a Jewish shopkeeper ripped me off? |