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Penthouse Accommodation in the Shard. Leasehold Free. This offer is conditional to the Maintenance Clause. To Maintain the outer roof, " from base level to highest point " replacing any damaged glass panels & weather proofing. Use of innternal Goods lifts would be allocated to accommodate moving said penels to the appropriate floor. Apply by Tender to the Leasehold Managers Office Sub Basement Minus Five. The lease has now been taken up by Mr Sherpa Tensing.

I have placed a for sale notice up to sell my Zimmer frame that is in perfect condition and has many miles of use still left to use. If the world does end tomorrow it will be free, but must be picked up locally. If the world does not end then I will withdraw my offer. as I will still need it.

Hot chestnut Vendor cooked as you watch over glowing coke, bought in a brown paper bag, to burn your cold hands. Could be seen on the corner of Northcross Road 1961. I wonder what these days Health & Safety would make of a cyclist riding round with an open fire, spilling ash on the road. Att.p

Thre longest Back Alyway in E.D. ran from Plough Lane down to Goodrich Road came out next to the Coblers Shop. Youi can see it on your map.

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Waxwing have a hard time finding food here. In some winters waxwings do indeed fail to find food. Many died on reaching this country one year following severe weather in northern Europe. When this happens the population crashes bringing invasions here to an end for several winters. This winter a small-scale influx of waxwings reaches the East Coast of England from mid-December with flights of up to 40 appearing in Norfolk. There is no goal bar food for wandering waxwings. And that food may be anywhere within a very great area of country.

If your dog does a Poo put it in the bin. Att.

Have you ever passed a place expecting to see a certain building or structure? The Co-op building near Northcross Road has changed three times, firstly the Co-op shops that got bombed then the Prefabricated Grocery Shop and the smaller Butchers shop alongside. Now the present Co-op shops. I can still visualise them as they were. Gone The Railway Bridge that spanned Lordship Lane now removed with the high embankment removed back to where the Lordship Lane Station was. Gone Honour Oak Railway Bridge that spanned Forrest Hill Road, was removed with the Honour Oak Station and Goods sidings in Wood Vale. Gone The Dulwich Workingman?s Club 110 Lordship Lane, cheap drinks and a social meeting place, if you were proposed and seconded to be a member you had to be vetted in front of the Committee, I think the Membership was Ten Bob ( now 50 Pence ), I could buy a half pint of Makeson Stout for less than fifty old pence. Gone The street traders four wheeled barrows for hire on the forecourt of the shop in Whateley Road These were used by the unfortunate people who got bombed out and what belonging were salvage loaded and pushed by them to a temporary place to stay, and that shop that sold coal and coke, and delivered it to your home, in big black tarred bags, the coalman wearing a cap with a leather neck protector hanging from it to stop the dust going down his neck. Gone Are the brick built arched roofed Air Raid Shelters in Basano Street built on the left side from Lordship Lane near to the curb. Gone Are the two brick flat roofed Air Raid Shelters in the Library Gardens, the one near the traffic lights was later converted into Public Toilets. Gone Are the big red lumbering Trams that were very noisy running on the steel tracks passing our front door. They passed every few minutes as three services the one to Blackwell Tunnel No 58, the one to Dulwich Library No 60, the other one to Forrest Hill No 72. Gone Is the Fire Station in Lordship Lane bombed and not replaced, now a Telephone Exchange. Gone Are the 20 Rowing Boats on Dulwich Park Lake, and the Scaffold built Stage where the entertainers put on shows, six pence to hire a folding seat in the audience and listen to the performance from a large Tannoy Trumpet style loud speaker mounted on a small van parked at the side. How many things have now gone that you can recall?

It now looks like the Prefab will have to be demolished and removed in sealed containers to an infill site to be buried. It is unclear whether the owners Southwark Council who is respocible knowing that it is a Health Hazard will remove it prior to sale, or pass it on as mentioned in the deeds as Plot and any buildings thereon. They will then have the power to oversee the demolition is done to Their Regulations. I remember that the outer walls were made of a four foot wide by eight foot high Panels of compressed Asbestos then a frame of timber and lined inside with a compacted soft board, to make the prefab of eight panels front and back and five panels at the two sides, this used the 4x8 sheets without being cut using 32 sheets of asbestos. These were erected starting at the corner propped up by a scaffold board, jointed together working from a corner made the panels stay upright as more panels were added, as soon as an internal wall section could be added to give strength. Findings on this are; Prefab demolition led to fatal asbestos cancer Mesothelioma caused by exposure to asbestos A man who developed the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma after being exposed to the deadly dust while demolishing prefabricated houses has received compensation from his former employer only weeks before his death from the disease. John Manniex, from Leigh in Greater Manchester, tragically died on 1 July. But he lived to see the company he worked for in the late 1960s agree to pay out after a legal battle that ended in a three day trial at the Royal Courts of Justice. Mr Manniex worked for the demolition company Mee and Cocker (Leigh) Limited, which was based at Peacock Fold in Leigh. He was employed to demolish prefabricated houses so that the aluminium used in their construction could be reclaimed. He worked as part of a gang that travelled all over the North West, West Midlands and Wales. Demolition of properties containing asbestos His job involved the demolition of thousands of prefab properties with roofs that were lined with asbestos . He would also take out the kitchens and he recalled that the built in ovens ? something of a novelty at the time ? were insulated with asbestos sheeting. Before his death, Mr Manniex described the conditions: ?We used to push the asbestos panels out from the roofs and let them drop to the floor. As they dropped they broke up and asbestos dust would be released. We would have that dust around us as we continued to demolish the building. ?Mee & Cocker were merely concerned with the aluminium roofs on the houses. At no stage did they ever warn us of the dangers of the asbestos that we were disturbing. We were never given a mask or alerted to the danger to our health.? But his employer denied that the prefabs contained asbestos. Their lawyers argued that asbestos was not used in aluminium prefabricated housing. Asbestos was known as the "magic mineral". It was used for many industrial purposes and many people in the 1900's used it within their employment. It wasn't until the mid 1970's that the dangers of asbestos became generally recognised and action was taken. The individual asbestos fibres can not be seen by the naked eye, nor a normal microscope and when inhaled or ingested, the tiny indestructible fibres lodge inside the body and can not be removed by the body in the normal way. These particles remain latent in the areas and it is often the case that asbestos related diseases do not manifest until decades later. All types of asbestos can cause disease. Blue and brown asbestos were known to be the most dangerous but white asbestos can cause the disease. I think that a Warning Notice should be posted at the site.

If I were a little younger I would try to buy the Prefab, but now it is beyond me to dismantle and transport to the rural site I have in Kent. I could oversee the re-erecction of it. I remember putting the formers in position to cast the concrete base, leaving an internal hole for the toilet pipes, then the Copper Damp Coarse that hung down outside, that must be worth its weight in gold now. It could be classed as a farm building not for habitation. Recent picture Att.

Doctor Hunter & Dr Pitman had to set up a surgery on the corner of Townley Road it is still there, but Dr Hunter died he advised me to stop smoking, as he was dying of cancer through smoking. This bomb fell just 17 days after the one down the road on the Co-op, this time only 14 houses and a church away from our home. The bomb fell in the night but we were not allowed to look until it got light, our doctors surgery had gone , I found a glass jar with human bits preserved in it that was lying in the road, mum would not let me keep it!. One of the houses was the one that the builder Greenaway & Son used as an office that I would in later date go to work for and build Prefabs. We had our roof off again. I think that the church being so high had protected our house from more damage than we would have got.

This site was where my Doctor Hunter had his surgery, I remember the bomb dropping just a few houses down opposite where I lived, when the site was cleared it revealed the two houses that could only be accessed from down an alley from Milo Road, there was also a tennis court and the Scout Hut. Whats the bet that a develloper will want that ground as well? Here is the Recorded reference. 22/8/1944 Lordship lane East Dulwich. This V1 in Lordship lane fell on the West side just South of the junction with Townley Road. It demolished 20 houses in Lordship lane and damaged 130 others in Lordship Lane, Beauval Road and Heber Road. The impact site is very clear to see particularly on the West side of Lordship lane where the site is still partly populated with pre-fabs. The other side of the road has also been re-developed post-war. I person was killed.

Nobody as yet reported money being deposeted in their account. I wonder if the bank would tell you. It would be a very unusual transaction INTO my bank.

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There are not a lot of people that are still alive to confirm the actual sites. It looks to me that a transparent film had been overlaid on the map then the sites added, as they are to my memory being at least 400 yards to the right of the sites shown. My father was one of the Civil Defence Wardens at the Dulwich Library, he was a very precise man so marking a map would be dead on. Taking on the fact that his own home was damaged so close to the Library would mean he would be aware at the time even if not on duty. Betweeen Crystal Palace Road and Goodrich Road the site I am talking about is mostly in Landcroft Road where five houses were very badly damaged, ( they have now been only four house built to replace them ) The site extended to Lordship Lane where the backs and tops of the houses were damaged. The site can be seen as vacant in the Google maps, and in others show the new houses, and the damaged ones, and rebuilt, back additions and roofs, chimney stacks of a more simple style replaced, ( no chimney Pots on top ) of those in Lordship Lane. There are records to be seen at the Council Offices in the Boro, but I am not able to get there.

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Patric was a well loved personallity. RIP Patric Moore joined the RAF aged sixteen, this would give him a chance of getting nearer the stars, he rose to be a Flight lieutenant. The war had a significant influence on his life: his only romance ended when his fianc?e, a nurse called Lorna, was killed by a bomb which struck her ambulance.

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Richard. This will give you the Roll of Honour of the regiment he served London Irish Rifles. Click on the link, select letter R. http://www.londonirishrifles.com/history-2/roll-of-honour-1st-world-war-a-z Extract of action: In September 1916, 1 LIR saw further action at High Wood during the Somme battles. 5 officers and 68 other ranks were killed with a further 150 wounded - partly due to the massive failure in the early use of tanks. The next month saw them move to the Yvpres region before entering the line there in November 1916, where 12 men were killed. In February 1917, Lt-Col Mahon, who had been at that time commanding the battalion, succumbed to illness and was replaced by Major (soon to be Lt-Col) DB Parry. During the remainder of the early part of 1917, 1 LIR remained in the line, taking part in several actions in the Ypres sector. In August 1917, Lt-Col Parry was admitted to hospital and Major Murphy took over command of the battalion. They then took part in defensive operations at Bourlon Wood, near to Cambrai in November 1917, suffering gas attacks, which caused many, many casualties.

Interesting the people that want to live in East Dulwich, they ask will it stay as it is or get better? Will they fit in with those already here, or must those already here conform to their requirements? Why do they want to live here what was wrong with where they lived? I note the shops they do not want but, who are they to say?

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Sad news of the suicide of that nurse, now we know that she was not english and miight not be aware of the English dialects and language might not be to familiar to distinguish an upper class voice from a cockney, put on the spot over the telephone by a person saying she was the Queen. Very sad.

I have looked at this Website but the sites mentioned are not precise, the sites that I saw then were blocks away from those marked You can look at those and see no damage to buildings there. Interesting to see that the bomb that dropped burying myself and family shows nowhere near our home, and all the string of bombs are all misplaced. The Web of the V1 & V11 was made by our local STEVE of Court Lane, has no relation to the Blitz. When the site has settled in I will try to find the bombing in Lordship Lane near Northcross Road.

I do use of Zimmer training to pedestrian awareness standard. There is no set charge. A bag of potato chips is always very welcome.