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The Test Card on the telly.


The innocent looking girl with the doll, or whatever, and all those squiggly lines accompanied by tunes such as Green Sleeves.


Try explaining that to the Sky Plus, HD, 3-D, Facebook, Twitter, generation and they won't bloody believe you.

???? Wrote:

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> Pipes


Actually I saw a young dandy chap walking down Talfourd Road smoking a Sherlock Holmes pipe, obviously on his way to a lecture or his studio at Camberwell School of Art. I must admit, it really threw me.

Telboyofpeckham Wrote:

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> ???? Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Pipes

>

> Actually I saw a young dandy chap walking down

> Talfourd Road smoking a Sherlock Holmes pipe,

> obviously on his way to a lecture or his studio at

> Camberwell School of Art. I must admit, it really

> threw me.


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Talfourd Road = Hipster spice route of Peckham

A policeman with a proper Helmet.

As worn by Jack Warner.

"Evening All!"


P.S, Pith Helmets of this type were made at Poppers Toppers at the factory corner of Crystal Palace Road and East Dulwich Road at the back of what was then Gordon Garage.

There were always stacks of them in the entrance into Grystal Palace Road, the white ones as used in the film Zulu.

I remember that Neil McCarthy one of those actors often used the George Canning Pub, Neil was a gifted pianoist, and was six ft 1inch tall, fluent in several languages he died aged 51 of motor neurone disease.

hibbs Wrote:

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> My grandad (always wearing a shirt, tie and jacket

> whatever the weather, even when working in his

> shed the shirt and tie would be on under his navy

> boilersuit)


There's a man fitting your grandad's description on our allotment, Hibbs!

???? Wrote:

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> Pipes

> Bowler hats

> Snuff

>

>

> ....the times they are a changiing


Last week I saw a young-ish lady in the champagne bar at Frieze partaking of snuff. Perhaps we are about to see a revival.

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