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Born in Bermondsey 1933..Sat through the Blitz in our Anderson Shelter.Bermondsey had the longest sustained Bombiing of all the London Boroughs.57 Nights continuous,from 10.30 pm until 05.30 Am...Lived in Major Road,How lucky were we...Apprenticed at Hays Wharf,Electrician from 1947,after a short spell at Waygood Otis(Lifts) at the Elephant.Worked at all of the depts from Hibernia to Mark Browns Wharf.,had a spell at Bay Wharf,Blackwell Tunnel,Barge Builders,next to Blackwell Tunnel..Did two years National Service with the Signals.Anyone that knows me,and would like a chat..Send an e-mail.

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Reply Paperboy
04:55 AM on December 15, 2009 
Hi Bill

I don't remember the Barnes family, but I've no doubts that my Mum does. I'll ask her. You say they lived in the block behind the shops - which set of shops? The ones from Spa Bakery, through Taylor's chip shop, past the Rising Sun to Reynold's pawnbrokers on the corner .. or .. from the greengrocers (Browns?) on the corner oposite the pawnbrokers past the Fishlocks' wet fish stall and the barbers and the butchers to the newspaper shop on the corner.

I lived in the block on Dunlop Place which overlooked the Salvation Army and Young's glue factory.

I remember the Raw family, the Rickson family, the Pritchard family and the Myland family - ring any bells?

I like the picture you use for your ident on this website, so I guess you like it too .. I took it with my instamatic camera in 1969 from Cherry Garden Pier!

The photo of me with my mum in St James' Road was taken by my dad. He was standing with Fort Road (now Simms Road) behind him, looking towards Southwark Park Road. The street which runs across St James' Road in the photo is Strathnairn Street. The shop over my mum's shoulder I remember as the bagwash. Diagonally across St James' Road on the other corner was a sweet shop which sold Nielsen Ice Cream - the only shop where you could get this ice cream, in my experience.

The whole block inside the square made by Strathnairn Street, St James' Road, Fort Road and Beatrice Road were all prefabs. I guess this was a building opportunity afforded us by the Luftwaffe.

The 'large square block' is in fact the end of a row of three storied terraced houses, numbered about 120-130. The end wall you can see might have been where the Luftwaffe (it's them again) created a gap in the terrace. Just beyond this terrace, looking deeper into the picture you could see Green's flower shop, the PDSA and the Rialto, next door to the side entrance to Woolworths.

On the day the photo was taken we were walking to my nan's nouse which was in the airey on the bridge of St James' Road, at number 259.

If you'd like me to e-mail a better resolution soft copy, just let me know where to send it.