Lamorby residents association disco on burnt oak lane. Swinging rope building or stepping stones across the shuttle river (stream) in goats field or willersley park. The ‘haunted house’ behind willersley park now the hollies. The oval pet shop. Dillons Sidcup station, kings fish and chip shop, the ‘moon’, Prince Albert, bull and Vic, Zens.
my old house on the Hollies backed on to the path to that place ruddy noise from partgoers @suzisausage
Hilltop Cafe on the corner of Anglesea and Crescent Roads
I used to live on Anglesea Rd right across from the cafe I used they my tea and Sarnie and hang out With the GreenGrocer next door, if I remember right he guy used to cycle from Erith every day to open up. As I got older we moved to Kidbrooke and we would Caddie at The Royal Blackheath Golf Course at the end of the day we would all head up to the Wimpy Bar in Eltham for Burgers and Finish it off with a Knickerboker Glory Oh Boy Happy Days.
Wimpey was a proper treat when I was a kid, used to love them.
Avery Hill Park, Parish Park woods (Avery Hill estate) Avery Hill Youth Club. First drinking in pubs around 15 was at Jolly Fenman. Irish guv called John who let you stay if you behaved yourself. First 5 pint session (Sam Smiths) aged 16 down The Dive, student bar at Avery Hill Teacher Training College. I grew up in the Avery Hill area.
And there's me thinking that you have no sense of humour!
As young kids - - Cox Mount - Ransom Walk - Valley pitch (for kick about when the ground was derelict) - Maryon Park - Maryon Wilson Park - BMX track at Woodhill - Down the Thames fishing and jumping in off the cranes. - Rathmore Yoot Centre - Uncle's smallholding and campsite in Stockbridge during 6 weeks holiday, if I never got meself a job. - Woolwich - Yeah, backwards and forwards on the old ferry an all
Then when I got to about 15 or 16, we'd try our luck in the following - Horse & Groom - Pickwick - The Vic - The Oak - White Horse - The Westminster - Barrier Arms
I used to live on the new housing estate at Crook Log, at least it was new in the 1970s. Despite Danson Park being right on our doorstep we would spend loads of time mucking about on the derelict patch of land, which we called 'the woods', on Brampton Road where the flats opposite the new sports centre/pool are now. You could also occasionally find that other treasure of childhood that the internet has killed off, ripped up porn mags in the woods!
As they were still building the estate around us we spent far too much time running around the building sites. Back in the day they never bothered fencing off construction sites and we would be clambering all over the scaffolding like monkeys and running around the foundation trenches when all the builders had packed up for the evening. God knows how nobody was killed, there were some nasty injuries. Somebody got smacked on the head by a brick that fell off the scaffolding and I got a nail right through my finger.
@Missed It I lived on that estate roughly 78-84. Queen Anne Gate, back yard backed onto the little square. Loved that estate
Remember us all in my mates bedroom, playing an early football game on the computer (possibly Atari ST) and me bored stiff, wondering if I was the only one who thought if was a load of bs
I used to live on the new housing estate at Crook Log, at least it was new in the 1970s. Despite Danson Park being right on our doorstep we would spend loads of time mucking about on the derelict patch of land, which we called 'the woods', on Brampton Road where the flats opposite the new sports centre/pool are now. You could also occasionally find that other treasure of childhood that the internet has killed off, ripped up porn mags in the woods!
As they were still building the estate around us we spent far too much time running around the building sites. Back in the day they never bothered fencing off construction sites and we would be clambering all over the scaffolding like monkeys and running around the foundation trenches when all the builders had packed up for the evening. God knows how nobody was killed, there were some nasty injuries. Somebody got smacked on the head by a brick that fell off the scaffolding and I got a nail right through my finger.
@Missed It I lived on that estate roughly 78-84. Queen Anne Gate, back yard backed onto the little square. Loved that estate
We were there from 72 to 79 - neighbours! It was a nice place to grow up, lots of young families. The kids could play football and cricket in the middle of the road. Did look at moving back there a few years ago, but out of my price range.
Used to hang out at many places as a young kid in Plumstead and Woolwich with my mates . The Woolwich Ferry , The covered in market , The monkey stones near St Margaret’s School , the Curly Wurly ( the bypass in plumstead lower road near the bus station ) and the adventure playground on plumstead common. Great times in the 70’s . Out all day . No mobile phones , back home for tea at 6 !
School summer holidays spent playing football from dawn to dusk either on the field at the top of Villas Road or Winns Common - plus quite a bit of tennis at the courts on the common.
Hilltop Cafe on the corner of Anglesea and Crescent Roads
I used to live on Anglesea Rd right across from the cafe I used they my tea and Sarnie and hang out With the GreenGrocer next door, if I remember right he guy used to cycle from Erith every day to open up. As I got older we moved to Kidbrooke and we would Caddie at The Royal Blackheath Golf Course at the end of the day we would all head up to the Wimpy Bar in Eltham for Burgers and Finish it off with a Knickerboker Glory Oh Boy Happy Days.
Wimpey was a proper treat when I was a kid, used to love them.
Still love a Wimpey now. The one round the corner from me is still always packed. Menu is unchanged with Brown Derby, International Grills, and the Lime milkshakes from back in the day. The owner also plays 80s music non stop to add to the throwback vibe. Love it
Hilltop Cafe on the corner of Anglesea and Crescent Roads
I used to live on Anglesea Rd right across from the cafe I used they my tea and Sarnie and hang out With the GreenGrocer next door, if I remember right he guy used to cycle from Erith every day to open up. As I got older we moved to Kidbrooke and we would Caddie at The Royal Blackheath Golf Course at the end of the day we would all head up to the Wimpy Bar in Eltham for Burgers and Finish it off with a Knickerboker Glory Oh Boy Happy Days.
Wimpey was a proper treat when I was a kid, used to love them.
Still love a Wimpey now. The one round the corner from me is still always packed. Menu is unchanged with Brown Derby, International Grills, and the Lime milkshakes from back in the day. The owner also plays 80s music non stop to add to the throwback vibe. Love it
Bexleyheath one is the bollox, love a milk shake from Wimpey
Hilltop Cafe on the corner of Anglesea and Crescent Roads
I used to live on Anglesea Rd right across from the cafe I used they my tea and Sarnie and hang out With the GreenGrocer next door, if I remember right he guy used to cycle from Erith every day to open up. As I got older we moved to Kidbrooke and we would Caddie at The Royal Blackheath Golf Course at the end of the day we would all head up to the Wimpy Bar in Eltham for Burgers and Finish it off with a Knickerboker Glory Oh Boy Happy Days.
Wimpey was a proper treat when I was a kid, used to love them.
Still love a Wimpey now. The one round the corner from me is still always packed. Menu is unchanged with Brown Derby, International Grills, and the Lime milkshakes from back in the day. The owner also plays 80s music non stop to add to the throwback vibe. Love it
Bexleyheath one is the bollox, love a milk shake from Wimpey
Will have to try it. Do they still do a bender in a bun?
Hilltop Cafe on the corner of Anglesea and Crescent Roads
I used to live on Anglesea Rd right across from the cafe I used they my tea and Sarnie and hang out With the GreenGrocer next door, if I remember right he guy used to cycle from Erith every day to open up. As I got older we moved to Kidbrooke and we would Caddie at The Royal Blackheath Golf Course at the end of the day we would all head up to the Wimpy Bar in Eltham for Burgers and Finish it off with a Knickerboker Glory Oh Boy Happy Days.
Wimpey was a proper treat when I was a kid, used to love them.
Still love a Wimpey now. The one round the corner from me is still always packed. Menu is unchanged with Brown Derby, International Grills, and the Lime milkshakes from back in the day. The owner also plays 80s music non stop to add to the throwback vibe. Love it
Bexleyheath one is the bollox, love a milk shake from Wimpey
The family that run the Bexleyheath one have been there for about 35 years. Lovely people and top notch grub.
Looks as if no one this far was from ‘Round my way.’
For me it was mostly summers in Mountsfield Park and Forster Park in Catford. I kind of lived in between them. Peters Pan Paul, the shops on the corner of Muirkirk and Sandhurst Road, specifically the Torbay Fish and Chip shop.
Then the Coppefield and Ram Pubs when I gained a bit of bum fluff.
Hilltop Cafe on the corner of Anglesea and Crescent Roads
I used to live on Anglesea Rd right across from the cafe I used they my tea and Sarnie and hang out With the GreenGrocer next door, if I remember right he guy used to cycle from Erith every day to open up. As I got older we moved to Kidbrooke and we would Caddie at The Royal Blackheath Golf Course at the end of the day we would all head up to the Wimpy Bar in Eltham for Burgers and Finish it off with a Knickerboker Glory Oh Boy Happy Days.
Wimpey was a proper treat when I was a kid, used to love them.
Still love a Wimpey now. The one round the corner from me is still always packed. Menu is unchanged with Brown Derby, International Grills, and the Lime milkshakes from back in the day. The owner also plays 80s music non stop to add to the throwback vibe. Love it
Bexleyheath one is the bollox, love a milk shake from Wimpey
The family that run the Bexleyheath one have been there for about 35 years. Lovely people and top notch grub.
That’s the one I went to as a kid. I remember their kids went to my Primary school (Upton) and as sub half the class had Wimpey birthday parties at a discount!
School summer holidays spent playing football from dawn to dusk either on the field at the top of Villas Road or Winns Common - plus quite a bit of tennis at the courts on the common.
Used to live on Riverdale, Winns Common or in the woods.
We (myself and the kids from the council estate I grew up on) built a huge pallet camp out the back of Staples for a month or so when I was about 12. It was mega, it had 3 large rooms, some were padded out with chairs made of polystyrene and one was a bedroom that never got used whilst we were there as it didn't have a bed.
It took a few days of the summer to build, but we only got maybe a week or twos use of it.
We'd all sneak off there to have a ciggy and pretend we were cool not realising we all just looked homeless. Was a good laugh until some older lads in their late teens and early twenties started hanging out there.
I stopped hanging out there, but heard rumours they'd been pulling the 12-14 year old girls that hung out with us. About 6 months later they were all nicked as a grooming gang, that had also been getting their victims to sell their drugs too.
My wife rang me earlier to say that the house was a complete state as the builders had started knocking walls down inside (we’re having an exention built).
She’d taken our daughter bowling at Bexleyheath and asked if I wanted to meet up for something to eat.
Persuaded them to go to Wimpy and it was spot on. Got talking to the bloke in there and he was saying it’s the oldest one in the UK still at the same location.
In the 50's and 60's we used to have summers, just like this year (or is my memory playing tricks)? and spent a lot of the summer holidays at Charlton Lido. Wednesday evenings at the 2Ks (I think it was called), club in Charlton village and of course only one place to be every other Saturday afternoon
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when i got to drinking age it would be the baring hotel,northover,catford ram,the squire,saxon tavern or the rising sun
- Cox Mount
- Ransom Walk
- Valley pitch (for kick about when the ground was derelict)
- Maryon Park
- Maryon Wilson Park
- BMX track at Woodhill
- Down the Thames fishing and jumping in off the cranes.
- Rathmore Yoot Centre
- Uncle's smallholding and campsite in Stockbridge during 6 weeks holiday, if I never got meself a job.
- Woolwich
- Yeah, backwards and forwards on the old ferry an all
Then when I got to about 15 or 16, we'd try our luck in the following
- Horse & Groom
- Pickwick
- The Vic
- The Oak
- White Horse
- The Westminster
- Barrier Arms
Great times in the 70’s . Out all day . No mobile phones , back home for tea at 6 !
https://wimpy.uk.com/food-stories/bender-bun
The Gate (an old gate in the back lanes where we used to park up for a smoke).
Fuller's Earth (a colossal, derelict mine where we used to hang out for a smoke).
Newdigate lake (a lake where we.... well you get the picture).
Mainly football or cricket dependent on the season
For me it was mostly summers in Mountsfield Park and Forster Park in Catford. I kind of lived in between them. Peters Pan Paul, the shops on the corner of Muirkirk and Sandhurst Road, specifically the Torbay Fish and Chip shop.
Then the Coppefield and Ram Pubs when I gained a bit of bum fluff.
Good times.
She’d taken our daughter bowling at Bexleyheath and asked if I wanted to meet up for something to eat.
Persuaded them to go to Wimpy and it was spot on. Got talking to the bloke in there and he was saying it’s the oldest one in the UK still at the same location.