Blasts from the past!!

[littlemisssmith]

I was sitting in ED eating the other night telling my BF about the area and what it was like as a kiddy and suddenly all these shops came back into my head!! Who remembers "Fosters" the jeans shop on the corner of Cyrena Road? Dedes in Underhill Road? Sun Video?? Wow! So many memories!!!

Anyone remember more from the 80's?

[KidKruger]

Yeah I remember Fosters, the guy was a little to keen to measure the inside leg for my taste, never thought I needed my inner thighs squeezed to get a pair of Lee's on !

There used to be a guy on NorthCross Road near barry road, he would set up a couple of tressle tables and sell 2nd hand stuff outside a couple of closed down little shops opposite the Chinese takewaway. My bedroom cupboard door, bathroom taps, various door handles and an old 1968 Rudge bicycle come from that gent, he used to wear a little sailor cap and had a white beard.

[littlemisssmith]

Haha, i dont remember that guy but i do remember foster! didnt he get busted for drugs????

[KidKruger]

Yeah that rings a bell, maybe he was trading a crafty 1/4 in the pocket of each pair of jeans...

[littlemisssmith]

Another one is The Heber Arms! Many many years spent in there with my dad being fed crisps and coke and told not to tell mummy!! Haha

[steveo]

I remember Foster. His 'workshop' was heavy with scent as well as weed and he had a formidable porn collection

[Otta]

Yeah I remember trying on some jeans in the back room, and there was a little sofa with porn mags all over the place. Very odd.

[steveo]

You had to be in the know

[edhistory]

The oral history recordings have are intended to capture a picture of everyday East Dulwich life from around 1945 to around 1970.

If anyone is interested in running a separate project for later years feel to drop by for a chat about how to go about it.

John K

[Undisputedtruth]

I think I've been to the same shop once a long time ago after seeing an ad on a lamp-post for cheap jeans. Huge amount of porn magazines in back room. It was a black guy who was running the shop. He seemed very persistant to measure my inside leg so I've made my excuses and left.

[HonaloochieB]

I remember Fosters - he once altered a coat for me and completely frigged it up - gave me a refund but still left me with a ?3.50 charity shop coat I could never wear.

[Jah Lush]

Pool tables in the EDT.

[GSJ57]

Saturday night DJ in the Uplands.

[littlemisssmith]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Pool tables in the EDT.

My god, are they any pool tables in ED at all now??? I love those things! :-D

[KidKruger]

Yes, there's one in the Castle.

You used to be able to play on the tables down Foresters also, and the Uplands.

[paphio]

littlemisssmith Wrote:

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> Jah Lush Wrote:

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> > Pool tables in the EDT.

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> My god, are they any pool tables in ED at all

> now??? I love those things! :-D

Last time I went the Gowlett had a pool table.

[maxxi]

Having a Sunday pint and checking out the scandal in the News Of The World.

[Veejay]

I go back way beyond the rest of you on this thread! Jeans didn't exist in England in the 1940s! I grew up in East Dulwich and lived at 57 Underhill Road from 1943-1966. In 1972, the property was sold to a developer by my father (who is now 102 years old) and a block of flats was built on the site. I wondered whether anybody had photos of that part of Underhill Road before the flats were built. Our garden extended back from the house and then turned to the left, coming out in a lane off Belvoir Road. It was a large plot, extending behind 51, 53 and 55 Underhill Road and there was a magnificent walnut tree in the garden. I attended St Anne's Private School in Melford Road from 1949-1952 and Heber Road School from 1952-1954. I then passed the 11-plus exam and went to Sydenham High School from 1954-1961. I'm researching my past to provide some information from my grandchildren's history project and would be grateful for any contributions.

[computedshorty]

Sorry Veejay.

You are not quite correct saying;

I go back way beyond the rest of you on this thread!

I am here still, but not for much longer.

Shorty.

[Voyageur]

Donkeys years ago (1982 to be exact) I lived in ED for a year in Darrell Road (and boy was ED different then...). There was a weird little shop front just as you turned into Upland Rd from Darrell Rd, with some kind of a voodoo doll thingy in front of the dustily curtained front window. I never saw the shop open but imagined some weird black magicky stuff went on in there http://freeemoticonsandsmileys.com/animated%20emoticons/Evil%20Animated%20Emoticons/evil%20bat.gif