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The bike shop on the corner of Blackwater Street was Melbourne Cycles (William Rose site) I seem to remember another bike shop somewhere near Streamline Motorcycles.

Hi all - Just filling in a couple of gaps Gillian was the daughter of Jean and Charlie Barnard Ernie Weston lived in the basement below the twins - He used to work for Molins in Deptford The Pat Green that married David jr. is my cousin computedshorty - The Yorkshire Fisheries shop in your pic, is that the fish and chip shop or a wet fish shop?

Jaytyger - The Odeon got turned into the "Palace of Peace" jumping on the George Harrison maharishi bandwagon. The coach staion on Hindmans was Viola Coaches (I think) - Banfields was in Nunhead Lane. The boatyard was Alf Bullens, he and his son used to race a couple of the boats, I seem to remember a Chelsea footballer buying a boat from him in the 70s. One of the huge boats usually parked outside was named Cigarillo. I think the toy shop next to Iceland (formerly Pullins) was Marriots

To get back on topic................................ A dog, not under proper control, killed a cat - could have been a toddler playing in the front garden. No amount of spelling corrections or back biting help this situation.

Is this "The Elms" ? Previously owned by Dominic of Tilts fame, went on the market about 2 years ago for 1.7 mill when there was more dosh around.

Avoid Klassy unless you like stale fish. Shop opposite the Uplands is usually good and will cook fresh - leaving just enough time for a pint :)-D

OK, you can blame EDOldie for waking me up :) The first time I went in the "Foresters" they still had a wood panelled back bar ;-) Me and my brothers went there on Boxing night and basically got wrecked, apparently we were also singing - Oh dear. When we left, I remember falling over and having trouble getting up again, my brother-in-law thought it would be fun to dive through a hedge - we had to pull him out by his ankles - silly bugger nearly made it all the way through.................. The thing that really sticks in my mind, that still gives me a warm glow, an old couple came over to us and said "Thanks, you really made our Christmas" However, the way we were behaving, we were the sort of people that annoy the hell out of me now :-$ I returned there as my local quite a few years later to a mixed bag of staff and clientelle. The End, time for another nap

Would people be making such a fuss if it was a "large rude woman" that was getting impatient waiting to someone playing with the contents of their suitcase to just deposit the cheques and move on? Villager says it all

Morning Macroban, My family used to listen to the race on the radio and generally support Cambridge as the underdogs (If I remember rightly, Oxford always won) When we eventually got a TV we supported the "light greys" ;-) I don't recall anyone being interested enough to actually go to the river though. Don't know about other families though................

Josie, we never used to have trees - they would have been chopped up for firewood :)) I agree about the wheelies - In our day, the dustmen were real men and could hump the metal bins up out of the airies, with no more thanks than 6d for the "dustman's Christmas box" - And you used to get your own bin back !! And the houses look even smaller in real life. Just in case somebody (new readers) thinks I am taking the P out of Rodwell Rd - I'm not, I'm just basing my memories of being 10 years old when all the houses looked like mansions ;-) And Wardy, you have been imortalised, EW still takes pride of place on the corner wall, bit weathered now though :)) Does anyone remember the Coronation Street Party ? I've still got the "Certificate". All the dads hung out of the windows stringing flags across the road from the upstairs windows. I have a memory of sitting on dads shoulders and seeing the queen on horseback near somewhere that looked like the Dulwich Village entrance to Dulwich Park - It's unlikely the queen rode a horse to the village to wave at the peasants, so I'm guessing my memories are buggered - I was only about 4 years old :'(

Why would you take babies to a sports club ? OK, read your other post - Swimming :-$

If any ex Rodwell roaders (Yes it is a word) are interested - Google Street Maps has pictures :) Start of with Google Maps and zoom in etc. Google Maps Hope that worked

Hi Wardy, Hopscotch - I think I remember............. 10 squares in 2 columns with OXO at the top (Why on earth was that ?)- sometimes it was 1 square, 2 squares etc. Take turns throwing a stone into each square in turn, then hopping to it. When you've hit all 10 squares, you try to get in OXO/home, you then can stake a claim on each square you throw a stone onto, and everybody else has to hop over it. It's all a bit vague from there, but it sounds like a forerunnr to Monopoly - Waddingtons must owe us Millions :)-D::o We used to play outside Dolly Wheelers shop because the pavement was "just right" Mick

Mr. Ibotson had two slippers - a childs size for minor offences and an adult size for the serious offences. When your 8 years old, that big slipper looked like it belonged to a clown - I really "tried" to behave :'(

Josie, I remember Olive Harrison and her nearly deaf husband, not his name though. Olive once told mum that the doctor was sending her to the hospital to have her "brain scraped" - she was a "troubled" lady. I remember playing knock down ginger on the family that live upstairs to Hilda, I think after she died and the shop was sold, it was me and someone else (I suspect Eric) and we tied a bit of cotton to the knocker and hid behind the wall in Cyrena. Still amazed how we never got caught. I lost touch (and forgot) almost everyone in the street, including relatives but I did once bump into my uncle Pat (Lyn and Pat's dad) one day when I was doing some work in a carpet warehouse in Peckham. Also I had a chat with Barry Anderson in the Uplands pub a few years ago - he was about 20 years old - I think you'd have struggled to wheel him around then. Jennifer Scott now lives around Bromley with her husband, they have two sons, both got their own businesses. Still see them fairly frequently. Mike