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  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,750
    You can't remember if you have posted on this thread earlier in the year.

    I think I might have done - not sure - might have been something about Fiona Bruce?
    I searched "Fiona Bruce" and it's surprising how many different threads she has appeared on, but couldn't see a comment from you. Go on then....
    Well, I took a look myself and I can't find it (i.e the Fiona Bruce reference) but I did come across this related item which I posted in 2018

    You will be of a certain age if you can answer at least some of the following:

    1) a popular Post-WWII meal item on a Monday evening would be Bread and ********. Fill in the missing word.
    2) When did rationing officially end in the UK after WWII?
    3) Were you able to spend a Victorian penny in 1954 (i.e. was Victorian coinage still in circulation in 1954 - yes or no?
    4) The Festival of Britain was in which year, 1951, 1952 or 1953?
    5) What is an Allotment?
    6) Henry Irving's best cardigan dates from which decade - the 50s or the 60s?
    If someone else in your family is like Uncle Albert in OnlyF&H then you don't have to be of that 'certain age'
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  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,750
    Standing on a train and people are insistent on giving you their seat.
    That's probably just being unsteady, caused by all the beers @ricky_otto so generously buys you down the pub.
  • You're looking at a 240 year old watercolour painting of an old Woolwich scene with your Mum and realise she has been around for nearly 100 years of that timespan!

    I think those two wasters on the left are conspiring to take over the local football archery team.  
  • stoneroses19
    stoneroses19 Posts: 7,218
    You're looking at a 240 year old watercolour painting of an old Woolwich scene with your Mum and realise she has been around for nearly 100 years of that timespan!

    Sandby documented a lot of London in the 1780s. This one of Charlton too. 


  • You're looking at a 240 year old watercolour painting of an old Woolwich scene with your Mum and realise she has been around for nearly 100 years of that timespan!

    Sandby documented a lot of London in the 1780s. This one of Charlton too. 


    Love it. Might have to check out more of his work
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,750
    You're looking at a 240 year old watercolour painting of an old Woolwich scene with your Mum and realise she has been around for nearly 100 years of that timespan!

    Sandby documented a lot of London in the 1780s. This one of Charlton too. 


    Wow. Amazing to think - that could quite possibly be the East Terrace and the people are on where the pitch is now.
  • You're looking at a 240 year old watercolour painting of an old Woolwich scene with your Mum and realise she has been around for nearly 100 years of that timespan!

    Sandby documented a lot of London in the 1780s. This one of Charlton too. 


    Wow. Amazing to think - that could quite possibly be the East Terrace and the people are on where the pitch is now.
    Far more Horse Shit on it these days. 
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,125
    You're looking at a 240 year old watercolour painting of an old Woolwich scene with your Mum and realise she has been around for nearly 100 years of that timespan!

    Sandby documented a lot of London in the 1780s. This one of Charlton too. 


    Wow. Amazing to think - that could quite possibly be the East Terrace and the people are on where the pitch is now.
    Far more Horse Shit on it these days. 
    Mostly wearing red shirts
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    You're looking at a 240 year old watercolour painting of an old Woolwich scene with your Mum and realise she has been around for nearly 100 years of that timespan!

    Sandby documented a lot of London in the 1780s. This one of Charlton too. 


    Wow. Amazing to think - that could quite possibly be the East Terrace and the people are on where the pitch is now.
    Far more Horse Shit on it these days. 
    Those were the days, going out after the horses of traders went by with a shovel and a bucket, to collect horse shit for my dads rhubarb. Needless to say, a long time after this picture was painted 🤣
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  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,476
    You're looking at a 240 year old watercolour painting of an old Woolwich scene with your Mum and realise she has been around for nearly 100 years of that timespan!

    Sandby documented a lot of London in the 1780s. This one of Charlton too. 


    Wow. Amazing to think - that could quite possibly be the East Terrace and the people are on where the pitch is now.
    I wonder if it’s possible to determine exactly where that is? A bit of a long shot I know but perhaps there’s a clever land  surveyor out there with the ability to study the land fall and work out if it’s where The Valley now stands?
    Would be fantastic if it turned out to be the case!
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,750
    Well, there's a small lake and church in the distance but even more curious is the church at the top of the chalk cliffs. There must be some mention of that in records of the history of the area - maybe in The British Library.


  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,750
    edited March 2023
    If what we see there were to be the chalk cliffs from which we know the East Terrace was carved out, then The Thames would be behind the painter who would have been sitting somewhere around where the tunnel/club shop are now. 

    The church and small lake in the distance are on lower land southwards.

    Fascinating stuff imo.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,476
    If what we see there were to be the chalk cliffs from which we know the East Terrace was carved out, then The Thames would be behind the painter who would have been sitting somewhere around where the tunnel/club shop are now. 

    The church and small lake in the distance are on lower land southwards.

    Fascinating stuff imo.
    I was thinking the small lake/body of water you mention might have been a small area of The Thames?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Well, there's a small lake and church in the distance but even more curious is the church at the top of the chalk cliffs. There must be some mention of that in records of the history of the area - maybe in The British Library.


    This map suggests that as well as St Luke's at the top of Charlton Church Lane there was another church on Charlton Lane, where the mini roundabout is now. Could that be it?  https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/spy/#zoom=16.3&lat=51.48727&lon=0.02453&layers=1&b=1&r=30

    When I saw that painting my thought was the same as yours that it could be where the East Terrace was. I then had doubts because I thought the perspective looked more as if it was looking downhill rather than up. Of course it's a painting not a photo, so the painter could have messed around with the composition to make it look more appealing, giving an impression of the area rather than a facsimile. 


  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    edited March 2023
    You're looking at a 240 year old watercolour painting of an old Woolwich scene with your Mum and realise she has been around for nearly 100 years of that timespan!

    Sandby documented a lot of London in the 1780s. This one of Charlton too. 


    Wow. Amazing to think - that could quite possibly be the East Terrace and the people are on where the pitch is now.

    I'd say it's St Lukes at the top of the hill, the Thames  in the distance about where the O2 is and viewed from down Landsdowne lane where the newish flats are.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,750
    You know you're getting old when

     ............. you study old paintings down to the tiniest details.


    Seriously though, that can't be The Thames in the distance; it doesn't look like a river. Nevertheless it does seem logical seeing as it's downhill.

    Are we sure that this isn't a painting of a Charlton somewhere in the USA?😉
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    edited March 2023
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,206
    Remembering whether you have taken your pills. 🥸
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,223
    Thanks for the reminder, now where are they?
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  • I like to take the edge off a Magnum lolly with a quick ten second blast in the microwave. 

    On two occasions recently I've pressed the minute button inadvertently and stood there like a tit in a trance.  I then have to pour my Magnum down the sink.  Very distressing. I worry I'm turning into Unlucky Alf.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG8MwYf85KA       
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,655
    Does anyone remember apple-pie beds?
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,223
    Do they have crusty sheets?
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,594
    iaitch said:
    Do they have crusty sheets?
    and covered in custard squirts
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    iaitch said:
    Do they have crusty sheets?

    And sound like you're sliding into a packet of cheese and onion crisps.
  • Solidgone said:
    Remembering whether you have taken your pills. 🥸
    I've found using a pill box helpful here.  If the tablets are missing they've been taken. This one £1-50 in Boots.


  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,353
    I'm in that bloody club too.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,206
    Solidgone said:
    Remembering whether you have taken your pills. 🥸
    I've found using a pill box helpful here.  If the tablets are missing they've been taken. This one £1-50 in Boots.


    I keep forgetting to purchase one 🥸
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    Got one today from boots Charlton. Well done @Raith_C_Chattonell
  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,850
    My wife and I have the opposite of a “safe word” for when I get old!

    We agreed that on the day I come home and say “You know, I really like the look of the new Renault Kangoo” is the day she has me put in an old folks’ home! 😂😂😂