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ahh...carolina, liquorice root... great, like chewing an old twig that we had found. was"nt satisfied until we chewed the life out of it ( from both ends ) and passed it around to each other until it represented a dry old piece of straw, not to mention the deep yellow stain that it left behind...

hello again shortie.....no, i dont think that hiring the costume would have suited you, except, maybe as a towel to dry yourself off?.......i"m inclined to agree about modern times, but having four children ranging in age from mid thirties to mid forties makes it a bit difficult. the mere...

hi pete, winter times we used the cafe, cupping our hands around the OXO MUG and carefully divvying up the penny slice of bread between us for a " dip in "..sometimes in the summer if we were visiting my aunt who lived on the " flat " by key hill we would use the baths at monument rd. we...

hi carolina....thats a really nice pic of the interior of the baths....lovey wrought iron work/architecture, as was the exterior of the building.....after our swim we used to nip over the road to the shop on the corner for our habitual wafer ice cream, then cut through the park to hamstead rd...

hello shortie,...yep, you describe lucille spot on. it went on with a trowel, it came off on my collar. ( lovely girl though ).......i know what you mean about the swimming bath doors, that skinny strip of wood between the door frame, was that for real?...the only thing a step worse was to hire...

hi alan. re: the church/cemetry in grove lane....bearing in mind this was over fifty years ago the distance from the traffic lights on the corner of soho rd / grove lane only seemed like a couple of hundred yards to walk there.. it may be further on than that....grateful if you could shed any...

hello again lyn....lucas"s did have xmas parties as well as st saviours, i went to one or two when dad worked there...yes lyn i did see shirleys pic, ( amazing photo shiley ).....the cafe on the corner of guest st. was a frequent spilling stop on the way back to villa st with our coal/coke...

hi shortie, one of the girls that used to go to the riviera was called lucy,she was a girlfriend for a while. she used to wait until she saw me arriving then put her tanner into the juke box and with perfect timing play " i wanna be bobbys girl " can you imagine the stick that i had off my...

hi lyn...great pic of st. saviours, a truly beautiful steeple. as you know, we shared most of the history together of villa st as kids whilst living there, but do you ever remember when they used to hold the christmas parties there for the kids of villa st...

hi phil, i was a local lad, born in villa st 1946 and left in the early sixties.....as kids, lyn (astoness ) lived almost opposite me for the last few years before i left......the pics of soho rd are really lovey, particularly nineveh dance club. do you remember the cafe almost underneath it? i...

thanks for that lyn bobbo

hi lyn, cant help you much with shadwell st. but can tell you all you need to know about villa st????? bobbo