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Being allowed back on the EDF after being blocked by Cloudfare for the last 2 years! Like the new look!

Sorry, I can't help with your request, but just wanted to say - what a lovely idea and I hope you're successful!

I remember the train track! It was a great pub when it opened...I think I still have a Phoenix sweatshirt somewhere - 'Phoenix my pint, I'll Firkin thump him'!

I have access to the the census returns, if you'd like me to do a look up. I agree with EPB, Booth's notebooks are fascinating!

Colin the cat flap fitter was EDF gold. Also the 'crushed and devalued' thread.

Almost 10 years for me - joined in Feb 2009. Mostly a lurker, love reading the posts of East Dulwich of yesteryear!

Ah, yes Penguin68, The Grove garden was the place to be in those halcyon summer days of the mid 70's. Sipping on your vodka and bitter lemon with your friends and hoping all the boys you knew would stroll in. *Sigh*

I checked the 1901 and 1911 census... In 1901 a Joseph R. Wood (in his eighties)a Rope Manufacturer, was living there with 2 single children Emily and John (both in their forties) and a servant - Annie Love. Joseph was born in Bethnal Green and his children were both born in Mile End. In 1911 it looks like it was a Dentist's Surgery: Harry Edward Heath Smedley 42 Unregistered Dentist Born: Liverpool Eleanor Smedley 48 wife James Stuart Gladstone Smedley son 18 Dentist Apprentice Norman Smedley son 16 Dentist Improver Clifford Lawson Smedley son 13 George Linnears Dallingers Smedley son 11 Lillian Eleanor Heath Smedley 8 Dorothy Nash Servant 17 ETA: In 1911 it states it was a 10 room house

I love Postman's Park! So peaceful, but the plaques are so sad....

Forest Hill Tavern circa 1976 'If you leave me now' Chicago First serious boyfriend.

True - they really were good pubs.

I still have a sweatshirt that says: 'Phoenix my pint...I'll firkin thump him'.

My mum remembers Holdrons, she said it was definitely 'Selfridges of the south'. Also Ghinns, the wool and fabric shop, opposite where Marks and Spencer was.

Love this.

Going off topic .... but I love his wife's books. She's a great storyteller.