A naked woman has just run down Ulverscroft Road

[Sue]

Anybody else see her?

WTF was that all about???

:))

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Training for the Barry Barry Road Race perhaps !

[Applespider]

Let's hope it was for a dare (drunken or otherwise) rather than running away from someone

[mazza7103]

now is anyone wondering where peckham rose was during this incident.....;-)

[ianr]

Maybe just her birthday, or spring or summat in the air. There was even an article in yesterday's Indie about the pastime. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/strip-club-why-are-we-obsessed-with-getting-our-kit-off-1950366.html

That article mentions Spencer Tunick's naked photo shoots in Dulwich in 1986 -- there's more on the web, eg http://photoslaves.com/spencer-tunick/. Did anyone here take part?

[PeckhamRose]

WTF has it to do with ME? What a curious thing to say.

I also hope it was not something frightening that she was running away from someone. Hope she is alright.

[Domitianus]

May I apologise for my mother's behaviour. She doesn't get out much.

[Huggers]

a naked woman once wandered our road and she was clearly mentally ill. We covered her up with an eiderdown and called an ambulance. It was very sad. She had a small boy with her. I never saw that eiderdown again.

[hpsaucey]

Wow. Did you find out what happened to her? Or the little boy?

[Huggers]

I think she was in a domestic violence situation and had some kind of breakdown. She lived at the other end of my road though I didnt know it till that incident. I'd see her from time to time after that (clothed) in the street but she didnt give any sign of recognition so I didnt engage her. She was completley zombified at the time of the naked incidnet and I thought she had been attacked. I believe she's moved now.

[PeckhamRose]

Very sad.

I hope Sue finds out what happened to the Ulverscroft Road lady.

[hpsaucey]

God - glad to hear she was around after this. Hope her and the little boy OK; and hope last night's lady OK too!!!

[Sue]

I'm pretty sure it was for a dare, if I had thought she was running away from someone I would have called the police immediately. There was nobody chasing her.

My lights were on and she could have rung my bell, also she wasn't calling for help or anything.

Had forgotten all about it till I saw this thread!

[Waldo]

HOw the hell do you forget about a naked person running down the street?

[HonaloochieB]

Mental ill-health and possible domestic abuse aside, let's not disregard the possibility that she was just larking about.

Having the crack, if you will.

More power to her elbow for reviving the 70's streaking fad.

Ray Stevens would be proud, unless he's still alive, in which case he will be.

For no particular reason I feel inordinately pleased with myself for employing the word 'fad'.

[Sue]

Waldo Wrote:

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> HOw the hell do you forget about a naked person

> running down the street?

xxxxxxx

Senility combined with a busy Sunday freezing to death in Brighton :))

[Andystar]

Was she a hottie??

If the answer is yes, can you ask her to jog down Friern Road next time?? ;-)

[Sue]

Didn't look like a hot water bottle, no.

[Penguin68]

I do recall when I lived in Chelsea in the seventies seeing a youngish woman stark naked except for sturdy boots walking calmy into a launderette with a bag of washing at 9.00 am on a Sunday morning. It was summer (and quite a hot one) and it was the height of the punk era, and she didn't seem in any way distressed, rather extremely laid-back. But it was a surprise. Public nudity wasn't entirely uncommon back then, but not normally at 9.00 am on Sundays.

And that was several years before the iconic 'fit lad takes off jeans to wash them in a launderette' ad.

I went out to buy a newspaper on Sunday for several months after that full of (dashed) hopes.

[HonaloochieB]

Penguin68 Wrote:

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> I do recall when I lived in Chelsea in the

> seventies seeing a youngish woman stark naked

> except for sturdy boots walking calmy into a

> launderette with a bag of washing at 9.00 am on a

> Sunday morning. It was summer (and quite a hot

> one) and it was the height of the punk era, and

> she didn't seem in any way distressed, rather

> extremely laid-back. But it was a surprise. Public

> nudity wasn't entirely uncommon back then, but not

> normally at 9.00 am on Sundays.

Nice anecdote, Penguin and i love the way you begin it with "I do recall".

Had I seen a naked woman wearing hiking boots in my local (perhaps even beautiful) launderette, the memory would be seared into my brain. It could probably, even to this day disturb some synapses when I conjured up the image.

Which, by the way I would do on a regular basis.

Was she a punk? How could you tell? How was her hair? Did you speak to her?

I wonder, was she at Malolm McLaren's funeral?

That'd be a giveaway.

[Penguin68]

Was she a punk? How could you tell?

In general punks would be immediately noticeable by the hair (day-glo dyed, mohican or otherwise spiky), by their clothes and by piercings. For some reason I cannot recall whether her hair was dyed or not (it wasn't a mohican or spiky, but punk ladies often didn't go that far) and I was distracted from concentrating on her head - reference to her clothes was clearly otiose and if she had piercings, at the distance I was, they were not very noticeable. She certainly went with the zeitgeist but may not have been strictly a follower of punk herself. Chelsea then was also known for generally 'arty' types - so she could have been dancing to a different tune.

I stayed a distant (and one-time) admirer only.