I remember as a kid the ice cream van that came round did "cider lollys" they were great. Dont expect they could sell those now, and they werent made of "Irish" cider !
When i was an apprentice if the engineers worked and missed their lunch break we got sent up to an open fronted shop in Surrey Docks and had to buy X amount of savolys and pease pudding. Was in grease proof sheets and red hot. naffing loverly though.
When we did a "ghoster" and worked through the night they used to make sure a lady from the canteen came in with bacons rolls. It was probably the fact that you were double nackered but those bacon roles seemed to be the best in the known World.
If you were skint you could go to the canteen they would do you the biggest door step chip butty you have ever seen. strange how they dont seem to taste the same when you do em yourself?
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Procured from an ice cream van for 30 pence last Saturday:
Bexleyheath/barnehurst area if I'm not mistaken???
I would hazard a guess at the above pic and say it is Marlborough Park Avenue.
Popeyes, and screwballs - plastic tube of ice cream with a bubble gum at the bottom. Watched a Welling game a couple of years ago where the oppo had a fat Italian looking guy in goal, and my mate spent the whole game shouting 'oyster' at him.
Wonder if kids today get treated to Angel Delight for desert ??
There is no pub in the pic so it can't be him.
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Or buy the books. Done by decades so you get the one for your youth and wallow in all the old mags, toys, sweets, crisps, fags, etc, etc
Great for the old people to sit around the fire and say "I remember them"
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Pork Chops with a small piece of kidney
used to love butterscotch flavoured angel delight closely followed by banana... is it still about??
i get them for my son sometimes
a bloke on his motorbike used to ride round on a sunday afternoon selling them from his sidecar.
brokentoothtastic
Valley mac my old man loved stuffed hearts. cant say i was over keen.
remember getting toffe apples from a seller down on the beach but it might've been a hut , i mean no wonder i've got dodgey railings the crap i used to eat!!
One little f*cker fronted me so I battered him... for about ten seconds when about 10 of his mates joined the fray!
I used the hollies swimming pool as a kid, my primary school, Middle Park Avenue used to take me there many moons ago.
lived in the hollies for a few years over the burnt oak lane end (after i lived on marlborough park avenue between montrose and cavendish) and used to go to the gym a lot with my friends and family as it was only a quid to sign a mate in. spent a lot of time on our bikes riding over the mound in the middle as it was great on your bike but its flat now! the other 'haunted house' opposite the gym is now an apartment building. swear we once saw someone looking out of one of the windows at the top! but I think it was just a mannekin - what a thing to leave in there! used to go past the tennis courts on our bikes to see John Regis as he lived that side and had a basket ball net on the side of his house. loved living in there. we had a double garage and i had a birthday party in there one year, was awesome!
I used to play cricket against them years ago and the ground was round the back of The Hollies somewhere in what I assumed was Lamorbey Park.
just used to know 'the pavillion' where i spent many a saturday night (third saturday of every month every young teenager in the early 90's headed there for fizzy pop and penny sweets and Snap's "i've got the power"!
the only other park area apart from the school playing fields is The Glade.
I think Lamorbey Park CC play on the cricket pitch ext to Rose Bruford (sp?) college, a ground owned by Chis N Sid. Not far from the Hollies, but they may have moved around a bit over the years.
Sidcup Golf Club's clubhouse is now the new Lamorbey sports centre and the clubhouse has moved onto old Hurstmere land, just the other side of the Glade pond/lake.
That sounds pretty feasible. I took one of my daughters to look round Rose Bruford when she was choosing her Uni and it looked vaguely familiar. I only played there once or twice and that was way back in the seventies.
I was lucky enough to get a few wickets against them. Dodgy track though if i'm honest!