http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/list/1 EN Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:15:41 +0000 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:15:41 +0000 SE1 Discussion Phorum 5.1.6 600 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/152442#msg-152442 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Johns) Bfn]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/152442#msg-152442 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:15:41 +0000 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/150559#msg-150559 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Auntie Pat)
the swimming baths are now long gone, and the library is now a buddhist centre - they've restored the old reference reading room quite sensitively and as it's a listed building they can't muck it about too much (in fact they've got rid of some of the hideousness that was 70s council style). They have a cafe which is open to the public and are very welcoming to visitors, apparently.]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/150559#msg-150559 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:58:00 +0000 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/150521#msg-150521 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Johns) New to forum]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/150521#msg-150521 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:11:00 +0000 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/145922#msg-145922 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Danny Heard) SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/145922#msg-145922 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:18:25 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/144242#msg-144242 forum@london-se1.co.uk (phillips-roskilly) Have been reading lots on hear and looking into tracing family tree on my father side. He grew up in Pages Walk from 1948 - 1968 when he married my mother and moved out (there abouts) His name is John Phillips... think people round there called him Ted also?? Not sure if you may of known him or his twin sisters who went to Webb St primary Pat and Barb.. Be nice to know if anyone remembers them. Cheers Kelly]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/144242#msg-144242 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:51:12 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/138306#msg-138306 forum@london-se1.co.uk (johnwillmott) The park was called mayflower gardens i think,if the ol grey matter is up for it lol! When i was about 10 or 11 in 61-62 ish the park was walled in with very high wooden partitioning that you couldn`t look through.I heard at that time that a lot of old graves were uncovered.Don`t know what happened to the little statue unfortunately. john]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/138306#msg-138306 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 03:03:15 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/135955#msg-135955 forum@london-se1.co.uk (lullylush) SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/135955#msg-135955 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:39:36 +0000 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/135953#msg-135953 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Ray Reddin) l miss old Bermondsey,l was born in Pages Walk in 1944 and moved in 1972.l went to Webb St school and Riley Road for secondary school,had some good times growing up Bermondsey,but we move on,l live my the coast now,but it would be great to hear from old friends.]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/135953#msg-135953 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:13:17 +0000 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/94992#msg-94992 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Neil Bright)
yes the big five-oh a couple of days before the next Rotherhithe & Bermondsey meeting, which is on 24 Sept about the Rotherhithe Tunnel]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/94992#msg-94992 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:47:40 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/94315#msg-94315 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Andrew H) When I wrote the Wikipedia page about New Kent Road, I transcribed the quotation and took a photo. As I wrote:

[i]A plaque was placed on a plinth in the original garden in September 1931 by the Dickens Fellowship, which explained that this was the place where in the Charles Dickens novel, David Copperfield stopped "in the Kent Road ... at a terrace with a piece of water before it, and a great foolish image in the middle, blowing a dry shell". The plinth had a small statue that eventually lost both its shell and its head to vandalism.[/i]]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/94315#msg-94315 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:46:10 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/94210#msg-94210 forum@london-se1.co.uk (djmills) SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/94210#msg-94210 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:50:14 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93989#msg-93989 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Jan the old one) SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93989#msg-93989 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:22:25 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93988#msg-93988 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Auntie Pat) SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93988#msg-93988 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:22:36 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93945#msg-93945 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Jan the old one) SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93945#msg-93945 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:56:15 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93930#msg-93930 forum@london-se1.co.uk (djmills) Did you ever come and queue up for the swimming in the school summer hols ,they would go right round the corner .made many new mates in them queues
I use to love that libary in Spa road , so many books to choose from as a kid it was wonderful and after when we grew up (LOL)me lover she says i still aint grown up .(hehehe,i'se 66
I do remember the canteen but not the mugs of oxo wish i'd known ,hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93930#msg-93930 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:43:48 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93928#msg-93928 forum@london-se1.co.uk (kas-75)
do you go to the Rotherhithe and Bermondsey Society meetings? If so I'll bring some photos along[/quote]

Unfortunatly no, i will try and get along to another blitz walk when they start up again, if i rememeber rightly, it's your birthday on the next one??]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93928#msg-93928 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:15:05 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93915#msg-93915 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Jan the old one)
and the memory of walking with dripping wet hair smelling a bit bleachy aahh lovely and do you know what Pat the lovely clean feeling I had after swimming in the baths ..priceless, in fact it was better for us to go swimming than to use the old copper boiler to heat the water for six of us, and when I tried to light it one day singed half me eyebrows orff...:-) did you ever go to the little canteen/tea bar thing in grange road baths, we used to have a cup of oxo , a slice of bread for three halfpence, or should i pronounce it as we all did..freeeightpence!]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93915#msg-93915 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:32:14 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93908#msg-93908 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Auntie Pat) SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93908#msg-93908 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:47:48 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93906#msg-93906 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Neil Bright)
do you go to the Rotherhithe and Bermondsey Society meetings? If so I'll bring some photos along]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93906#msg-93906 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:26:02 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93905#msg-93905 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Neil Bright)
What might be really useful are the 1946 aerial photos. I use these a great deal in my research

A huge amount of open spaces were used as allotments in the Blitz and one particular photo spring to mind, although it a shot over Camberwell Town Hall; the use of land as allotments

I have no photos to help - sorry]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93905#msg-93905 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:15:34 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93843#msg-93843 forum@london-se1.co.uk (BOST) SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93843#msg-93843 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:35:48 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93840#msg-93840 forum@london-se1.co.uk (kas-75) SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93840#msg-93840 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:03:53 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93832#msg-93832 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Neil Bright)
yes the photo of Henley is still in the old town hall. Obviously Henley will feature in my book. All of the research is done i just have to get it written. I think that is nine months to a year away. The trouble is just when I think I can there is no more to research I get another lead or go off on another tangent and find out more and have to have another rethink about the book's structure. I'll get there in the end!]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93832#msg-93832 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:16:18 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93814#msg-93814 forum@london-se1.co.uk (djmills) SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93814#msg-93814 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:02:00 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93786#msg-93786 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Jan the old one) SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93786#msg-93786 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:39:10 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93784#msg-93784 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Neil Bright)
I work in the old library in Spa Road. It is now part of the admin for Southwark Youth Services. I don't think you would recognise the interior

I am very interested in the area as I am a Blitz historian and am writing a book about Bermondsey's Blitz. I have quite a lot of photos of Spa Road before, during and after the Blitz

Amazingly there are still "shelter" signs on the walls of the Neckinger Estate as well as in other parts of the borough]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93784#msg-93784 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:03:03 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93783#msg-93783 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Auntie Pat) SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93783#msg-93783 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:45:15 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93772#msg-93772 forum@london-se1.co.uk (djmills) Do you rember Lushes the greengroucers oppsite to the baths and Sam Taylors lorry yard next to Lushes.
Must agree Bermondsey was a great place way back then aswell]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93772#msg-93772 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:31:38 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93748#msg-93748 forum@london-se1.co.uk (Auntie Pat)
In spite of all the changes, Bermondsey is still a great place to live.]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93748#msg-93748 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:59:00 +0100 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93743#msg-93743 forum@london-se1.co.uk (djmills) Lots of memories ,Bacon School , Riley Road school for boys (gone now i've heard ,shame),the swimming baths the libary in Spa road ,Neckinger Estate.
Anymore Bermondsey Boys out there ,lets here from you .
dave]]> SE1 Discussion http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/93743/93743#msg-93743 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:39:50 +0100