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We still don't like to talk about Bernie found our way. He still has a long reach, even from the grave.
I made a joke once to Bernie's face about his barnet, or his 'syrup' as I referred to it. For my sins, I found myself booked on a tour of the Outer Hebrides for 6 months cleaning up Flanagan and Allen after they had been 'entertained' nightly by their retinue of gimps. Let me assure you, that is a job I would not wish upon any flunky. |
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I was brought Ray Winstone's new book for christmas, there's a lot of talk about Newham in that.
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I read that..a load of old pony
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Still in Newham, but not on my old patch...
Avenue Hotel - Manor Park - closed 1980s The Gatsby - Forest Gate - closed 1993 The Canteen - Stratford - closed 1994 The Green Gate - Stratford - closed 1997 (12 in the bar and it was packed)  The Chobham Arms - Stratford- closed 1997 The **** - East Ham - closed about 1998 The Green Man - Stratford - closed 2000 The Chatsworth Arms - Stratford - closed 2000 The Falmouth Arms - Stratford - closed 2001 The Bakers Arms - Stratford - closed 2001 Albion Hotel - Upton Park - closed 2002 Adam And Eve - Stratford - closed 2002 The Earl of Derby - Forest Gate - closed 2002 Lord Henniker - Stratford - closed 2003 The Roundhouse - South East Ham - closed 2003 The Angel - Stratford - closed 2003 Burnell Arms - Manor park - closed 2003 Eagle and Child - Forest Gate - closed 2004 The Log Cabin - (used to be The Yorkshire Grey) - Stratford - closed 2005 Graving Dock Tavern - Silvertown - closed 2006 The Charleston - Stratford - closed 2005 The California - North Woolwich - closed 2007 The British Lion - Stratford - closed 2008 The Duke's Head - East Ham - closed 2010 The Forest Glen - Forest Gate - closed 2010 The Essex Arms - Stratford - closed 2010 The Hope - Stratford - closed 2010 The Royal Oak - North Woolwich - closed 2010 The Dew Drop Inn - Stratford - Dennis the guv'nor was a good gambler, always paid on time)  - closed 2011 The Pigeons - Stratford - closed 2012 Earl of Wakefield - East Ham - closed 2013 Manby Arms - Stratford - closed 2013 The Duke Of Edinburgh - Green Street - closed 2014 Also closed - year unknown The Camden Arms - Forest Gate Odessa Arms - Forest Gate Freemasons Arms - Forest Gate Duke Of Fife Fife - Forest Gate (renowned poofs pub) Three Crown - North Woolwich (another poofs pub) The Ram Tavern - Silvertown Jubilee - North Woolwich Kent Arms - North Woolwich Lord Nelson - North Woolwich Huntingdon Arms - North Woolwich The Star - Manor Park (known locally as Manure Park) - converted to flats The Drum And Monkey - East Ham, had its name changed to 'The Perseverance' but was still known to all as 'The Drum' - that's now a community centre. Earl Of Essex - Manor Park Three Rabbits - Manor Park (renowned 'trouble' pub) Other recalled from my patch of Canning Town, Plaistow and Custom House Duke Of Cumberland - Plaistow - ex-coppers pub behind Plaistow nick - my 2nd favourite haunt - just found out that it was demolished recently  Britannia - Plaistow Coach and Horses - Plaistow The Royal Oak - Canning Town - home of the gym of Frank Bruno and Terry Lawless - now a Bairstow Eves estate agent office Rose Of Denmark - Canning Town - closed 1993 Flying Scud - Canning Town - closed 1995 Churchills - Canning Town - closed 1999 The Barge - Canning Town - closed 2002 Pitts Head - Canning Town - closed 2008 Golden Lion - Plaistow - closed 2011 There are still more but my fingers ache  |
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Jesus Christ....somebody give this man a job.
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s.kenbo 07 Jan 15 18:06
I was brought Ray Winstone's new book for christmas, there's a lot of talk about Newham in that. One of my sons-in-law has been on karaoke with Ray Winstone. Neither of them can sing. |
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The Royal Oak - Canning Town - home of the gym of Frank Bruno and Terry Lawless
CMAT the legend that was Jack Bodell, his training gym was also the Royal Oak up here. |
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There's a difference, I never knocked Jack Bodell over.
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Will never forget the Mighty Jack Bodell. A boyhood staple. A man from Swadlincote no less. A fact I've probably remembered from a time before I even learned how to do a Hand Shandy, and no doubt it will be the very final fact I process in my fading brain.
Here he is against Danny McAlinden in the early 70s. Blink though and you'll miss it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLJhiaqkf_o |
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he was from Newhall
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they always put Swad in the records Alun because it was the nearest town, he was actually born in a large house in Newhall at the rear of the Hope and Anchor pub. I think he is something like my 5th cousin removed, he once tried to tap off with my mum and my old man knocked him spark out and hid him in some bushes in Swad bus park as he thought he'd killed him. My great grandad used to help out with the training at the gym, and he said Jack had an older brother who was a better boxer (I know that's not hard) but he had no interest in going pro. Jack now lives in Coventry, used to come over quite often but not seen him for a year now.
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I remember this one quite clearly.
Jack v Jerry Quarry, who had mixed it with the best of them. I was at my mates house and we had it on the radio. About 15 seconds after it started we found we had no ashtray in the room. I was closest to the kitchen so I went out to find it. By the time I did, and got back to the living room, the fight was over. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfypx1zTRuQ |
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Cheers BB. You've just smashed one of the 'facts' that I held most sacred. You've just unwittingly demolished one of the building blocks of my life. I am a broken man.
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he was a boozer and a womaniser CMAT, the brief glory he had went to his head. Kenny could have taken him in his prime.
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sorry Alun, we'll call it Swad if you want it's only half a mile away. |
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The Hope and Anchor was incidentally a former venue at which some of my favourite 70s artistes played (Elvis Costello and the Attractions, XTC, to name but two).
Don't tell me, you're going to reveal that's a load of baloney and they actually played in your great grand-dad's shed, right?  |
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I knew I had heard the name before but I was thinking on the boxing lines. The pub is one of the few left now in the village of Newhall and it is just called the Anchor now. Another useless fact for you is the village now has only 4 pubs, at one time there were 60!!!! 60 pubs in a small village some towns would love that. No body gigged in grandad's shed as he hated all music. |
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Ah come on BB, he'd surely have loved this one. I feel confident he'd have been rocking the joint in his ripped drainpipes and gobbling at everyone onstage in 1977.
XTC : "I'm Bugged" recorded at the Hope and Anchor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cefo-L7koNg |
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honestly alun he hated all music for some reason, even classical. He used to watch Top Of the Pops with no volume on. (in the 70's) and sit there p1ssing himself with laughter at the acts prancing around on stage. I must admit though he did have a point some of them did look like helmets.
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Bunch of east end lads who formed in the 70s in The Bridge House, Canning Town (and still play today)
This was in 2007 in The Prince Albert, Plaistow, which is now a mini-supermarket. (Missed that off my list) . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGZP6CmXo54 |
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The Colby Arms opposite Gypsy Hill train station is one of the few pubs that I go to sometimes to watch the racing, The Flying Pickets recorded their hit Only You in there. It has had a lick of paint since then but not much else has changed thankfully.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgDKtLPp46s |
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I was in a pub sarf of the river many years ago, just for one night, can't recall where it was, but it was called The Dun Cow.
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Cheers, I hadn't seen that RDB band before.
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Old Kent Road cmat, the famous pub in that road was the Thomas A Becket where they had the boxing gym upstairs, two of my brothers fought out of there. Bermondsey wasn't a place I ever used to go to that often if I could help it.
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The Old Kent Road eh...
The cheapest square on the Monopoly Board. Nothing from east London on the Monopoly Board. The new version has no railway stations, but does have 4 mosques. |
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alun2005
07 Jan 15 22:51 Cheers, I hadn't seen that RDB band before. Imo, they were the best band to ever appear at the Bridge House, and had a huge following. Here's Dennis Stratton and Dave Edwards (both from Canning Town) doing 'Comfortably Numb' in 2009 I felt sorry for Davy in the 70s  short, tubby and not going to win any good looking contests, but he was a good musician, and by fack he could rock a guitar.Plenty of stuff with them in videos on youtube. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCPRBhKeEok |