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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.

I tracked down the 1911 census for you too.... The address was written as 34 Ivanhoe Road, Denmark Park, SE. 34 Ivanhoe Rd Frederick Burrin age 44 Grocer Kate Eliza Burrin age 46 wife Winifred Evelyn Burrin age 11 daughter No 36 was a newsagent and tobacconist. If you want to pm me your email address I can email you the image.

I have a subscription to Ancestry.co.uk. They have all the census records in their database. I did look for your house in 1881, but the houses only show up as names, so hard to tell where No. 34 would be - if indeed it had been built yet. You might get lucky with just a google search for old maps of London.

I checked the census for you. In 1901, Edgar and Alice Bryant were at No. 32. He was a hairdresser. No. 34 was uninhabited. No. 36 was a Grocers - Arthur and Martha Simmons with their 6 children. No. 38 was a Drapers. In 1891, No. 32 was uninhabited. At No. 34 was the verger of St Saviour's, and family - Charles and Rebecca Milner with their 2 children, Susan, 20 and William, 19. At No. 36 was Joseph and Elizabeth Morris, Provisions Dealer. At No. 38 were 2 sisters, Emma and Edith Rolfe - it was a Stationers/Confectioners.

Austin 1100 for me too. White with black pleather interior :)

Murder by Numbers - The Police. B side to Every Breath You Take. Still love it.

Agree with Londonmix - I'm currently living in the US, South Carolina no less, not far from where he was speaking last night. Not one person I know (Republicans included) can stand this man. He gets exactly what he want - a lot of press for saying outlandish and reprehensible things. He makes my stomach turn.

Yes - knew it was there in the 70's. Wasn't sure when they finally closed though - thought it was early 80's....was a sad day!

Folletts record shop was at 5 Lordship Lane in the 1950's and 1960's. Loved going in there, had to go up two or three stairs once inside, to see all the records. I used to love the listening booths at Jones and Higgins too.

Don't have any personal knowledge of Naples, it's more built up and commercialised compared to Anna Maria Island. As is Fort Myers to the north. Both places are good for a day trip to Sanibel Island - a shell collecters dream! But if you're just looking for a beach holiday you cant go wrong with anywhere on the Gulf. I am biased but I love St Pete Beach, again - more commercialised, but have fond memories of living there when my kids were small!

I don't have any rental recommendations, but Anna Maria is fabulous....I used to live in St Petersburg, and we went there a few times. Bay Front park is right on the beach and great for kids.....sheltered picnic tables and a playground. We loved it there!