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Anyone remember Rose Hill Common when it had all the Prefabs beside it next to the Track? right near that quality School (Tweedale)

I left in 1970 and glad I did, that and Sutton have gone right downhill, You can't even drive your Car in Sutton anymore its all Pedestrian.

 
MKBlue said:
The whole area is a tip now mate, even St Helier looks rough now, and don't get me started on Sutton.
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Tongue in cheek, mate. Here in Peckham we're gentrified, who'd have thought it!! I often (avoid) going through Mitcham and Sutton on my way to my parents now in Epsom but I do wonder when I drive through how my life would have been different if I'd have grown up there.

 
MKBlues - does this bring back any memories of our Chelsea days? :o

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That's actually my passport photo for the Gaynesford school trip to Belgium in 1972, pretty sure I was pissed at the time!

 
BlueBeard said:
MKBlues - does this bring back any memories of our Chelsea days? :o
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That's actually my passport photo for the Gaynesford school trip to Belgium in 1972, pretty sure I was pissed at the time!
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Wow! I'm going to try to transfer that to the girlie thread! Gorgeous!

 
BlueBeard said:
MKBlues - does this bring back any memories of our Chelsea days? :o That's actually my passport photo for the Gaynesford school trip to Belgium in 1972, pretty sure I was pissed at the time!
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Yikes !!!!

That's one nasty scar down the nose. Bay City Rollers Fan eh??

 
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Peckham Blue said:
Harwood Avenue, second or third house on the left. We lived upstairs in my Grandparents house until my Dad got a job in Fulham and the house came with it. My main memories of Mitcham are when we used to go back and visit and me and my brother would have to spend the whole saturday evening in the corridor at the back of the Black Bull while the family got pissed up in the pub. I think the Cricketers had a family room so I prefered it when we went there.
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I lived in the next road along, Russell Road!

My family normally went in the Crown, as we'd be visiting my grandparents in Riverside Drive. I was always happy being left outside with a coke and a bag of crisps. I remember I used to love the smell of stale beer every time the door opened, explains a lot about my future love of pubs. Sometimes they'd go to the Kings Head (Burn Bullock), Queens Head, or The Cricketers. I think that's where my love of pub crawls developed, it's all my grandparents fault!!! :o

 
Peckham Blue said:
Yikes !!!! That's one nasty scar down the nose.
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Yeah, that does look a bit naughty :D

Bay City Rollers indeed, that pic was taken in 1972 way before the Rollers were around :o

I was always a Scotland fan, and the scarf had a Rangers badge on it, in fact it still has - I've still got it!

I can't help thinking that we've hijacked this thread from the original subject, Ken Shellito. It's OK though, I got Ken's autograph over the Mitcham training ground, so it's all connected :(

 
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BlueBeard said:
I lived in the next road along, Russell Road!My family normally went in the Crown, as we'd be visiting my grandparents in Riverside Drive. I was always happy being left outside with a coke and a bag of crisps. I remember I used to love the smell of stale beer every time the door opened, explains a lot about my future love of pubs. Sometimes they'd go to the Kings Head (Burn Bullock), Queens Head, or The Cricketers. I think that's where my love of pub crawls developed, it's all my grandparents fault!!! :o
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' kinell you've hit the nail there. It's that smell of the beer barrel corridor, there's nothing like it, I could lick the carpet and whenever I walk past a dive pub it grabs you like a forgotten dream. After we moved to Fulham my Mitcham life moved to the Jolly Brewers in St. Dionis Road, Parson's Green similarly the packet of crisps (Smith's) and a bottle of Coke but this time before a Chelsea match. The smell of youth, holidays in caravans in Camber Sands, crap cabaret bands copying the Rubettes!

And there's me these days, dragging the kids down to Dulwich Hamlet, bribing the kids with crisps and Coke just to keep them quiet from telling Mum that Dad does nothing but drink when he goes to football.

 
MKBlue hasn't posted or PM'd me since I stuck my picture up! Maybe it's brought back horrific memories for him? Come back, Kev, wherever you are! :D

 
Just got home from mate's 40th with Kerry Dixon and Ron Harris there, rather pished and severely O.D'd on nostalgia and the like, bring on the N5 scum, CAREFREE!!

 
BlueBeard said:
MKBlue hasn't posted or PM'd me since I stuck my picture up! Maybe it's brought back horrific memories for him? Come back, Kev, wherever you are! :D
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Remember you well mate, I'm trying to work out how to post pics of some old membership cards from 77 to 95 on here.

 
MKBlue said:
Remember you well mate, I'm trying to work out how to post pics of some old membership cards from 77 to 95 on here.
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Best to stick them on Photobucket or something similar, then upload them from there. Did you reply to my last PM? I'm not sure because my computer has been playing up a bit lately, having similar problems with my e-mail.

 
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