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A while ago Lockharts Stationarry and Toy shops were mentioned, I have now found the picture of the two adjoining shops at 137 / 139 Lordship Lane they are third and forth shops in the picture from the corner, I am pretty sure that as a stationers they provided their own series of Post Cards this one is marked Lockharts.

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Never mind Nan never liked those new fangled motor cars. Sid run to the Green Grocer on the corner and borrow his handcart.

If the Funeral Directors do not pay for the recovery of the Hearse will it be crushed or Cremated?

This is a Red Bus Lane, put your hand out its a request stop.

How long did it take you to get through it.

The Accident on Dog Kennel Hill http://www.londontramways.net/articles/dog_kennel_hill.php

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Ann Summers Knicker Party Knickers in the 19th Century Women did not wear knickers until about 1800. Until then the only underwear women wore was a long garment like a nightie. It was called a chemise or a shift. From the Middle Ages men wore linen shorts but until the end of the 18th century it was not considered seemly for women to wear undergarments apart from a chemise. However after about 1800 women also wore drawers. Sometimes they came to below the knee or sometimes they were longer garments with frills at the bottom called pantalettes. However by the 1830s only girls wore pantalettes. Women wore drawers. Today we still say a pair of knickers or a pair of panties. That is because in the early 19th century women's underwear consisted to two separate legs joined at the waist. They really were a 'pair' of knickers.

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To the tatty van owner be advised that this is a Slug infestion area, it might be in your interest to drive away your van now or the army of slugs are now climbing into exhaust pipes and blocking them causing the engine not to start. Look for the tell tell silvery slimy trail leading up your pipe, they are also getting into vehicles make sure you apply your safety belt or you might slip though your windscreen.

I remember the deep sewer being placed under Goodrich Road, Heber Road it passed our school we watched as it turned across Lordship Lane into Townley Road, it must have been at least five foot diameter, and dug fifteen feet under the ground, and we could stand up, as we got into the end in the evening while the night watchman was not looking, we crept back as far as the bend in Crystal Palace Road but would not venture further in the dark, this must have been around 1940/1943. I dont think it was connected to the 7ft sewer in Townley Road, I have a vague memory of it passing the Dulwich Hospital. This Ruston Bycrus Drag Shovel type was ured to dig the trench.

See the Leysdown Man change his clothes for every occasion, here he is an Olympic Runner. Leysdown holds one of the biggest Car Boot sales ever on Sunday mornings just an hour away.

No Dinky toys here the big Eddie Stobart trucks come rolling in.

Turn on the Tap fully then the mouse that climbed in your expansion tank will come throgh whole. Probably the Fibreglass insolation had got in by a dislodged cover.

Having made Box Frames and Sashes for over sixty years, those that I made are still seviceable to be seen in Dulwich. When repairing bombed damage a sash the weight of the wood now being suggested will weight more, so the weight in the boxes has to be added to but is there suficiant room in the box, during repairing damaged sashes with second class glass ( all that was availabe at that time )It was much thicker and had many imperfections in it we were told caused by a draft of cold air in the process. To get the ballance right we added strips of lead coiled around the cord, above the weight but this restricted the clearence of the lenght of the weight lift so a sash might not open fully. Timber these days has not been allowed to dry out natrually, then when a stick was placed between every layer of drying timber to allow the air to get between. Hardwood is not needed as long as the softwood timber is knotted, primed, a first coat the finishing coat. will last a lifetime.

It must be sixty years since I went there, I recall that Mount Aden Park had not been Macadam surfaced, you could get onto Dawsons Hill by the bend in the road then, there were some fruit trees just there.

This link might help. http://www.dulwichsociety.com/newsletters/43-spring-2006/213