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cant help ya there regarding com classic kpf if you can get back on this site I can pm ya ,but I am not too hot on the computers "like this thread I am old school "
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FOYLESWAR is that shop at grove park still mcdonnalls
or was it one taken over by Jennings ? |
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Foyle
If you are looking to sell I would give you £500 for them unseen |
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who remembers as a nipper the cap bomb toys like a rocket thing that you put a cap in and trew it up in the air and it hit the ground with a bang ,always used to put as many caps as I could cram in and dropped it off the top of the tower block where I lived !
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its a good offer kpf and thanks ,but i will check them out when i get time ,do you collect railway stuff as i am always getting old stuff ,bit of a hoarder really ,but i do come across those sort of old items .
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also those super balls really bouncy things i was about 10 yo and dropped one of those off the top floor of my tower block expecting it to bounce back up to me ,it split in half !
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slippy no its gone now a big corals is now opposite the station 1
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A group of kids at my school used to travel to school by train.
They traveled in the guards van and somehow nicked the detonators which should have been attached to the track in an emergency. Then as you would they exploded them in the school playground. After a big inquiry about ten of them were canned in front of the whole school at assembly. Cap bombs ?? These were the real thing. |
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Two choices for dinner--------------take it or leave it.
There were no food allergies. Vegetarians were thin on the ground. A.D.H.D.? |
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Foyle
I am always interested in any railwayana The offer is for real if you should so decide |
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FOYLESWAR last time I was there corals was already there
and mcdonnalls was round the corner |
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The Billies in Mottingham Road used to take all the "nosey" money for Catford Dogs
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Great thread
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never seen the mcdonnals there was a small deans independent further up near the down ham tavern both now closed i belive !
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o.k. foyles thanks
hope your not getting mixed up we are talking about grove park |
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Trying to mend the punctured plastic football with a hot knife...dinner lady hovering as you gagged on the black bits in the mashed spud...Juicy Jim where you'd suck the orange to leave a lump of ice...Ted Mc Dougall scoring nine in one game...washing frozen solid on the line...Arthur of the Britains followed by Southern Soccer.....Mum threatening that Dad would give you a good hiding when he got home from work. And it was no idle threat....
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yeah grove park is only 5 mins from me , this mcdonnals was it further up from the station going towards burnt ash as there are some derelict /empty shops and one has a large clock above it the type the old independants used to have ?
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Foyles, I used to play Eltham every year at all sports, they used to get a terrible time from us Dulwich College lads usually
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''Trying to mend the punctured plastic football with a hot knife''
Thanks for reminding me of that I forgot all about it, we were always having to do that, especially after the ball had ended up in are make believe terraces(which were often bramble bushes) |
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I hardly missed a meeting at Catford for decades. My Dad had dogs there early 70's and me afterwards until they closed the doors. The regulars were heartbroken when that place shut, it was my second home.
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when i was a nipper my mates nan used to make a massive bread and butter pudding for us kids ,she used to make it in a big roast tin bakeing tray and it had cinnamon on the top and a big jug of that birds custard made from the powder .................feck sake my mouths watering thinking about it !
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think it was in downham way train station end
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i used to go to catford dogs mainly Saturdays in my youth , my Saturdays would be spent ...........get up at 9am bit of brekka down to mecca bookies in albion st Rotherhithe,11 am hackney bags and Crayford betting on the dogs till the last race think there were 24 races in total both meetings when the dogs finished,into the pub 2 doors along ,then the horses started bet all day the old itv7 and lord oaksey, john rickman etc, around 2 or 3 0 clock the landlord would ask who wants pie and mash and take orders and he would phone the pie shop and get a cab to pick the grub up and deliver it to the pub. when the racing finished it would be off to catford dogs if we still had any money for a night of betting till about 10.30 then back to a mates house for a game of cards ! wernt much to bet on in them days
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On the subject of pubs here is a link you South East London boys might find interesting
http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/27246/scariest-pubs My early punting / drinking life seems to have mirrored yours Foyle although probably played out earlier New Cross dogs and then on to the Apples and Pears That was a real Light and Bitter pub , it was always packed ( great DJ ) and the half pint bottles were littered all over the floor Apples and Pears during the week and Temple Bar Walworth Road weekends |
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Slippy
Here is a poser for you. I had a couple of dogs with Vernon Forde in Blindley Heath He had a schooling track adjacent to the kennels. One sunday whilst walking the dogs we got lost and stumbled upon another schooling track not far away It was owned by a double barreled named toff Cannot for the life of me remember his name Any ideas ??? |
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Any of you chaps remember ''hipster'' circa mid 60s ?
All my older mates who'd started work would have about ten different pairs. The first thing I did circa '70 ( first wage packet) was to get a pair of tailor made made trousers, parallels with two patch pockets on the back... Montague Burtons ! |
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* hipsters
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1972 first wage packet bought myself a pair of chelsea boots and a 2 tone pair of oxford bags
happy happy days |
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and the girls in those tiny tight hot pants
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I remember when people hitch-hiked places....even girls!
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1965- The arrival of the mini-skirt!
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The pill
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an eastern european was somebody on telly at the olympics
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yeah the old school playground jokes " who invented the mini skirt...........seymore crumpet !
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aged 16 t was in the late 60s early 70s I bought a pair of those crushed velvet lional blairs in fooking purple
 and some dodgy tank top in multi colours and 1 of those tie and dye tee shirts and a bottle of that hippy patchoulie oil shyte, thought I was the dogs bollax ! |
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purple crushed velvet
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The Flairs were that big you could take a stride without your legs appearing to move!
Naturally,these were worn with hideous platform shoes. |
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my platform shoes were silver with a purple stripe ......i loved them shoes
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my mate wernt happy with 26" flairs on his sky blue strides don't think they were wide enough for him he extended them with a gold colour inserts !
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the crumpet was superb in the 70s short skirts, knee high platform boots, and heavy eye shadow
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