Was talking about this with a mate the other day. I remembered sometime in the 80s the myth about the Chelsea Smilers going round schools (including primary school which i was at at the time) and praying on victims who didnt support chelsea/ laugh at a joke or something like that.
Ha ha those were the days.
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and i believed him.
If I remember rightly, the rumours were about the boys from Picardy school who were roaming the streets after school giving kids they didn't like Chelsea grins, which involved cutting the edges of people's mouths and then kneeing in the goolies, with rather nasty results!
Weird how these things get around, and how widely believed it was, but a lot of my kids were really panicked about it - can remember at least one of my mates bring a bloody great big Rambo knife in so that he didn't go down without a fight.
This went round our school as well (all girls!). Caused so much "panic" that we were called into assembly and told we could wear 'Mufty' the next day, which caused mass laughter all around until it was explained that it meant your own clothes instead of uniform!
Are you teaching in Brazil then?
or the ghost that people used to say was by the blackwall tunnel rumour was numerous drivers had run someone over by the tunnel when they got out there was no one there
Also remember a very odd disheveled old bloke called 'Nutty Kirby' from Slade Green allegedly, who used to appear at a lot of local kent league football games wearing a long coat and was rumoured to carry a gun under the coat.
the flats next to the rose of denmark opposite where halfords used to be we used to cut through them walking home from asda as a short cut, as you went throught the main doors there was a big cupbaord under the stairs on the door there was a note that said any children making noise or playing ball games in this area will be locked in here for eternity and the key thrown away, nice..
'Weasel' was an intersting character if anyone from SE7 around my age ever came across him tall white guy with a mad brown scraggy bead always had a manky carrier bag with him, also there was a rumour that there was a deaf bloke in the same block of flatts as weasil that if you knocked on his door and pointed to your wrist ala look at my watch he would give you a pound then close the door..
Wasn't he the bloke who used to shout kill the kids at you
Anyone remember the black trampy fella he had dirty dread hair can't for the life of me remember his name he was always in woolwich
There was once a fire next to the reservoir in our village in which an elderly woman died. Years later, she was said to have returned to the nearby woods to seek out revenge against the locals for not helping her escape the fire that took her life. If you ever chanced upon her, then she would kill you...... Many youngsters had claimed to have seen the ghostly glow in the woods on a summer's evening, and she became known as 'the blue lady'.
That Bluebell hill woman has done the rounds for years, a girl I went to school with ended up in the paper because her, and her mum and sister reckoned they ran it over.
If you ever are up the bit this white ghosty woman is meant to inhabit after dark around about this time of year it is sinister
Ultimately though, it is a good place for imaginations to go crazy
think it was called the geordie smiler.