London Memories.

[another bloke]

Guy the Gorilla. :)

[Sandperson]

Protein Man.

[Eliza.D]

The funfair in Battersea Park

[another bloke]

Penguin Island.

This was the traffic island opposite Camden Town tube where all the Irish navvies used to congregate on a sunday morning after church and prior to the pub back in the late sixties and early seventies, all dressed up in suits and ties. Hence the name.

[Muley]

Smoking carriages on the Underground

[Fabricio the Guido]

Mr Motivator

[GSJ57]

'George Davis is innocent'.

[Ridgley]

Eddie the Eagele

[another bloke]

I'm not sure he was strictly London related.

The Bar that used to be on Sloane Square underground station....down by the platform.

[Ridgley]

The Brixton riots never forgotten that.

[david_carnell]

God - it's like a Robert Elms show.

Although I do like the idea of a bar on the underground.

[Chick]

Anyone remember the Peanut sandwich board man in Oxford St?? Protein leads to passion??

[maxxi]

Kennington Park Lido

[Laddy Muck]

EDF posters: a bloke and another bloke. Deactivated...

[sallyfran]

ED as a down at heel housing action area, where you could get grants to do up your house.

Smoking on all public transport.

Separate little train compartments holding just 8 people, with slam doors (scary if you were stuck on your own with someone looking dodgy)

Being able to buy a flat in Clapham Common for ?19,000

Beautiful curved glass windows in the front of Heals, and it being so out of reach expensive and classy that it was like going into a modern V&A

[DulwichFox]

Being able to park in the street Free in Central London. IE Charing Cross Rd. Tottenham Court Rd. Lisle Street.

Edgeware rd. to name a few spots.

[DulwichFox]

Playing in the Bombed out buildings when we were kids.

Collecting old news paper and selling it to waste paper yard to buy Bangers and Rockets.

[Annette Curtain]

Samuel Pepys burying his Parmesan.

Yeah, they were the days.....

* shakes head *

N:-S

[Salsaboy]

Buying parafin from a man in a lorry for my nans heater.

[srisky]

Routemaster 12 - looked fab going down leafy Barry Road on a sunny day

[Jah Lush]

"Bring out yer dead." Ahh! The plague. Happy days.

[Laddy Muck]

I knew you were old Jah Lush - but not that friggin old LOL!

*paints red X on door*

[Marmora Man]

Chick Wrote:

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> Anyone remember the Peanut sandwich board man in

> Oxford St?? Protein leads to passion??

Remember it well.

[Marmora Man]

Fox & Anchor pub - Smithfield Market. Grimy, gritty but great. Opened at 4.00am for market porters, night staff coming off shift from Barts Hospital (both sometimes in bloodstained white coats) and tired & emotional students on late night benders. Huge fry up breakfasts and pints of Guinness.

Now, sadly, 35 years later a Malmaison Hotal.

[????]

Men in bowler hats in the City

All the buildings covered in soot

StPauls dominating the skyline

Bombsites

....Chelsea in the 2nd division (old money) with 12,000 fans ;-)