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P R LANE Or FREEMASONS RD
What side where you? CMAT |
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P R Lane
Tollgate Road (Beckton Road before they renamed it) |
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It's changed rd there for sure
My mum still lives in custom house ! |
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Did you know Macs the bookies in Tollgate Road.
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Did it get taken over or closed
I was about 14 when corals started buying up the shops |
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Closed it in December 2008
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2008 thought that closed more like 92
The bookies where they sold satellite dishes Big ones! Recall as kid think sky was just kick off than |
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It was a bookies since the day they became legal back in the 60s.
The satellite shop was next door, then it was a garden centre that my ex-brother-in-law owned. I know the The bookies is a cab office now, no idea what the garden centre is now. |
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I know the The bookies is a cab office now, no idea what the garden centre is now.
A refugee drop-in centre (nap) |
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Does your mum live down the lane?
I was born in Cundy Road, in my grans prefab, then we moved to Star Lane, then when I was 5, we moved into Barnes Court, that's the block over the top of the bookies, it was brand new then. |
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Small world I take it your out of new ham now lol
Jeez I tell my feek off out of there but she works Near airport might as well see what cross rail brings Get better price for her house |
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I've been gone 10 years next April, but worked down there up to December 2008.
Ask your mum if she knows any of these names: Terry Gill, Billy Thompson, Charlie Liversley, Lenny Price, Bruce and Dave Carter. All fine upstanding Custom House chaps. She may know of Billy 'Jango' Williams, he got everywhere, but was from Jenkins Road, Plaistow, originally. Dropped dead in the street two years ago. |
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Taxi is Black Friday popular in Newham?
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It's Black Friday every weekend at Galleons Reach retail park.
Not that you saw any reports in the August 2011 riots headlines. Bad news in Newham was hushed up as the Olympics were coming. |
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Was it really CMAT?
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Yes, but Wesdag will say otherwise.
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And what's more, Clouseau, I'm sorry for hijacking your perfectly PC thread about towns in the UK with the suffix 'ham.
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That's alright CMAT, I was quite enjoying reading your very entertaining posts.
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Excellent, so that's all good then, Clouseau...
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No probs CMAT.
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erm... hold on...
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I still wonder what the Tolpuddle Martyrs and Wat Tyler would have made of "The 42 Inch Plasma Television Riots" of 2011 ? A small number of people were pretending to be so upset by the shooting of a local, erm, 'Community Leader' that they responded by stealing expensive branded goods from leading names on the High Street.
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Dersingham and Sheringham aren't that far from me.
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Actually, having checked the map, Snettisham, Great Bircham, East Rudham, Heacham and Barsham can't be far away either.
But, to be fair and to be honest, Billy "Jango" Williams sounds a lot more interesting... |
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My junior school mate, Billy was a bad'un.
Also known as 'the bomb' because of his right hand punch, which I thankfully managed to avoid when we were against each other at the age of 12. He was a promising heavyweight who was taken under the wing of Angelo Dundee, and flown off to the good ol' U.S. of A. Camne back here for a holiday in the mid 1970s, did a few serious things wrong and got put in prison. Angelo dropped him like a hot potato. Boxing licence revoked, he turned to crime, and that was the start of his downfall, but it took a long while to arrive. His dad, Olly, boxed, so did his older brother, Chris. Younger brother Johnny never got into it. None of them ever had the desire to be a criminal. But if you can't get a job, you still have to pay bills, but Billy was always OTT in dealing with people. Made a lot of enemies. Us who knew him were surprised he got to be that old (61) |