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Post by Patrick on Feb 28, 2009 23:19:07 GMT
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Post by riotgrrl on Mar 1, 2009 9:38:58 GMT
You need to show your passport to get into the pub?
I'm not entirely sure this is a good thing.
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Post by motorist on Mar 1, 2009 10:54:35 GMT
Croydon's a shyte 'ole anyway, I worked there for a few years
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Post by Patrick on Mar 1, 2009 12:26:33 GMT
My Mum can remember when it was all fields round there - and she used to go to school on the same bus as Martin Jarvis!
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Post by everso on Mar 1, 2009 23:52:19 GMT
My Mum can remember when it was all fields round there - and she used to go to school on the same bus as Martin Jarvis! Oh I love Martin Jarvis. He was a great Uriah Heep in a long ago production of David Copperfield on the t.v. I went to a wedding in Croydon once. |
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Post by housesparrow on Mar 2, 2009 9:02:26 GMT
Jack Sparrow was brought up in Croydon. The posh bit though.
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Post by motorist on Mar 2, 2009 11:11:07 GMT
Jack Sparrow was brought up in Croydon. The posh bit though. Is the posh bit the part between Whitgift McDonalds and the crossroads that has no drug peddlers on it? ;D ;D |
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Post by Patrick on Mar 2, 2009 12:17:51 GMT
Jack Sparrow was brought up in Croydon. The posh bit though. Ah! What the detractors call "South Croydon" by any chance? Joke amongst my family - in the vein of that that every town has; "Oh! You live in South Croydon" "No! Sanderstead actually!" ;D Whenever I called my Dad's Step-Mum - for years and regardless of all the number changes, she would always answer the phone "Hello! Sanderstead 6196" Thirty years ago Purley was supposed to be posh - After all Terry and June lived in Purley! Unfortunately an Aunt of mine can't wait to escape - the proud street of large 1960's semis has fallen prey to burglaries and they don't like going out at night if they can help it. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Mar 2, 2009 13:32:36 GMT
Jack Sparrow was brought up in Croydon. The posh bit though. The real Jack Sparrow or just your husband? (Not that Jack Sparrow is real, but you know what I mean.) (maybe) |
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Post by housesparrow on Mar 2, 2009 17:52:15 GMT
JUST my husband? Yes, he was brought up by relations in Croydon - my sense of direction is pretty poor but it was up a hill, and I have vivid memories of shopping in Croydon Safeway (or was it Waitrose) Christmas Eve morning many years ago. It was liek being trapped in a flock of gannets (not nice for a couple of chirpy sparrows).
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Post by swl on Mar 2, 2009 17:59:01 GMT
I lived in South Coulsdon for a while. That's near Croydon I think.
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Post by motorist on Mar 2, 2009 18:01:13 GMT
JUST my husband? Yes, he was brought up by relations in Croydon - my sense of direction is pretty poor but it was up a hill, and I have vivid memories of shopping in Croydon Safeway (or was it Waitrose) Christmas Eve morning many years ago. It was liek being trapped in a flock of gannets (not nice for a couple of chirpy sparrows). I don't recall a Waitrose but there was a Safeways, and a Sainsbury's inside the Whitgift shopping centre  |
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Post by riotgrrl on Mar 2, 2009 18:15:48 GMT
JUST my husband? Yes, he was brought up by relations in Croydon - my sense of direction is pretty poor but it was up a hill, and I have vivid memories of shopping in Croydon Safeway (or was it Waitrose) Christmas Eve morning many years ago. It was liek being trapped in a flock of gannets (not nice for a couple of chirpy sparrows). Never mind chirpy sparrows. I was getting excited at the thought of you being married to a pirate. |
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Post by everso on Mar 2, 2009 19:10:15 GMT
Did I ever tell you that I went all the way to Elephant and Castle to see "The Great Escape" ? (Steve McQueen featured heavily in my life at that time - I'd got over Ray Davies) This was about 1966/67 when TGE had been re-released.
I can't believe I travelled home from the Elephant and Castle to Romford late at night on my own, and wasn't molested - I was only 16 or 17 at the time.
Things were different in the 60s.
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Post by motorist on Mar 2, 2009 20:10:55 GMT
Did I ever tell you that I went all the way to Elephant and Castle to see "The Great Escape" ? (Steve McQueen featured heavily in my life at that time - I'd got over Ray Davies) This was about 1966/67 when TGE had been re-released. I did my degree down there (Southbank Uni) |
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Post by housesparrow on Mar 2, 2009 22:01:44 GMT
I can remember having to go to Southbank Polytechnic (it must have been before your time!) for an inter-uni competition and nearly getting mugged in a subway on the way.
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Post by Patrick on Mar 2, 2009 22:06:22 GMT
Did I ever tell you that I went all the way to Elephant and Castle to see "The Great Escape" ? (Steve McQueen featured heavily in my life at that time - I'd got over Ray Davies) This was about 1966/67 when TGE had been re-released. I did my degree down there (Southbank Uni) Is that the Wandsworth Road one? Attached to Lambeth College? |
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Post by motorist on Mar 3, 2009 4:26:34 GMT
I can remember having to go to Southbank Polytechnic (it must have been before your time!) for an inter-uni competition and nearly getting mugged in a subway on the way. Not totally before my time. It was a Polytechnic during my first year, and became a Uni before the 2nd year started |
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