I remember the Harry Secombe and Colin Cowdrey cricket match. I got lots of autographs that day including Amanda Barrie, Harry Secombe and Sam kydd.
We called it Peter Pans Pond.
Peter pans pond in catford, used to go for boat rides there, was it also called peter pans pool?
It's about 50 years ago for me but my (failing) recollection was of PP Pool at Southend Ponds. Mum took me and my big sister there once each year during the summer hols on the 47 or 199 bus from Bromley Common. Loved the boats and the slides!
I remember hearing the air raid siren going off whilst sitting at the classroom(Red Hill Chislehurst) .It was in the 60s think they just used to test it.Also Smokey Joe the tramp always saw him around Chislehurst.Catching Newts and stickebacks in Chislehurst Pond and walking to the island when it was frozen
Love reading people's old memories, even from a different era.
Any 80s kids used to go the 'summer camps' they used to run at Crook Log Sports Centre over the summer holidays? Run by centre staff and a few local teachers like John Sawyer?
Getting your sports gear from Gentry's Sports on Welling Corner, Meeting at the Canon in Welling and getting the eldest looking one to by about 30 litres of cider to take down the Rock Gardens in Danson TW Records Bexleyheath, Cruisin Records Welling. used to buy my Commodore 64 cassettes in the latter
When the aquazooms were first build at Crook Log. Riding your bike round the streets after the 87 Hurricane. Fish market in Pickford Lane where the bakers is now When the Crook Log was a proper pub with a decent pub garden
No have to take issue with your final comment m8 - my father in law Peter Day was the landlord at The Volunteer in Church Road and he ran a proper boozer back in the 80's. He was good mates with Derek and Joan Hall who ran the Crook Log and take it from me that the after hours sessions were heavy to say the least!
Charlton pre season in charlton park, PIG IN SHIT as a 10 year old who live within a 30 sec walk, collecting and kicking th balls back to them, allowed to take penalties at the end, may have been Tony Lange
Love reading people's old memories, even from a different era.
Any 80s kids used to go the 'summer camps' they used to run at Crook Log Sports Centre over the summer holidays? Run by centre staff and a few local teachers like John Sawyer?
Getting your sports gear from Gentry's Sports on Welling Corner, Meeting at the Canon in Welling and getting the eldest looking one to by about 30 litres of cider to take down the Rock Gardens in Danson TW Records Bexleyheath, Cruisin Records Welling. used to buy my Commodore 64 cassettes in the latter
When the aquazooms were first build at Crook Log. Riding your bike round the streets after the 87 Hurricane. Fish market in Pickford Lane where the bakers is now When the Crook Log was a proper pub with a decent pub garden
No have to take issue with your final comment m8 - my father in law Peter Day was the landlord at The Volunteer in Church Road and he ran a proper boozer back in the 80's. He was good mates with Derek and Joan Hall who ran the Crook Log and take it from me that the after hours sessions were heavy to say the least!
Happy days (no pun intended) ;-))
Jonny K - I lived in Church Rd '87-'92, you are correct, your father in law, Peter, ran a quality boozer, loved it
Love reading people's old memories, even from a different era.
Any 80s kids used to go the 'summer camps' they used to run at Crook Log Sports Centre over the summer holidays? Run by centre staff and a few local teachers like John Sawyer?
Getting your sports gear from Gentry's Sports on Welling Corner, Meeting at the Canon in Welling and getting the eldest looking one to by about 30 litres of cider to take down the Rock Gardens in Danson TW Records Bexleyheath, Cruisin Records Welling. used to buy my Commodore 64 cassettes in the latter
When the aquazooms were first build at Crook Log. Riding your bike round the streets after the 87 Hurricane. Fish market in Pickford Lane where the bakers is now When the Crook Log was a proper pub with a decent pub garden
No have to take issue with your final comment m8 - my father in law Peter Day was the landlord at The Volunteer in Church Road and he ran a proper boozer back in the 80's. He was good mates with Derek and Joan Hall who ran the Crook Log and take it from me that the after hours sessions were heavy to say the least!
Happy days (no pun intended) ;-))
Jonny K - I lived in Church Rd '87-'92, you are correct, your father in law, Peter, ran a quality boozer, loved it
Thanks for that SA - he retired from the pub in the Spring of 95 and tragically passed away here in East Grinstead in the September of that year. But boy did he believe in running a proper family pub and no bad language or agro.
Carrying this on a bit, I got a book by Tony Lord who used to be one of my teachers at Charlton Manor, was all short stories about local history, I'm sure some will find.it amazing, he used to tell us stories about local history more than teaching and draw pictures in relation to the story on the blavkboard, he was.a.great artistic as well.
100 year on from the outbreak of World War 1I recall the Royal Herbert Hospital and, as a small child, seeing the old soldiers sitting in their wheelchairs outside on a sunny day.
Cutting through the old Pharmacy in Woolwich before the DLR was built there.
Or the panoramic painting of the valley in the Elephant and Castle just on the market. Believe it's been replaced now.
The bloke that runs that place is a Leeds fan and I remember him saying he was going to keep all the Charlton stuff in there when I last went in (around November last year).
Being taken to the Summerfield pub on Baring Road in Lee as a kid...they was a tiny door between the Public and Saloon bar (like about 4 foot tall!), remember playing endless pinball whilst drinking bottles of coke and asking for packets of peanuts so it would reveal more of the busty lady behind where all the packets were hanging up!
Also the rank outside toilets they had there....there used to be a phantom shitter in the urinals!
Being taken to the Summerfield pub on Baring Road in Lee as a kid...they was a tiny door between the Public and Saloon bar (like about 4 foot tall!), remember playing endless pinball whilst drinking bottles of coke and asking for packets of peanuts so it would reveal more of the busty lady behind where all the packets were hanging up!
Also the rank outside toilets they had there....there used to be a phantom shitter in the urinals!
Being taken to the Summerfield pub on Baring Road in Lee as a kid...they was a tiny door between the Public and Saloon bar (like about 4 foot tall!), remember playing endless pinball whilst drinking bottles of coke and asking for packets of peanuts so it would reveal more of the busty lady behind where all the packets were hanging up!
Also the rank outside toilets they had there....there used to be a phantom shitter in the urinals!
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Hydes (sp)
Sonic(and his sister) being born
Happy days (no pun intended) ;-))
Mad but nice, and a few free drinks (soft of course)!!!!!!
COYR....
Or the panoramic painting of the valley in the Elephant and Castle just on the market.
Believe it's been replaced now.
God bless them all. RIP
What about the Granada in Welling. Sneaking in to Screen 3 when one of those dodgy 'confession' films were on!
Anyone remember the glass building at the top of Garland rd? Rumour was there was a tunnel linking it to the Arsenal. What did they do there?
Proper announcers back then
:-)
Catweazel?????
Also the rank outside toilets they had there....there used to be a phantom shitter in the urinals!