Dwight Van Mann
3:00 Sun Aug 12
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Limehouse used to be part of fucking Middlesex - according to old maps
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Johnson
2:42 Sun Aug 12
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Johnny, I’m not disputing it was claimed by those Kent cunts.
It was your south of the river comment. Like Kent stole it and shifted it over the Thames.
Surely it’s still the right side by just in a Kent postcode?
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Bullet
2:07 Sun Aug 12
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Wilko Johnson 7:37 Sat Aug 11
I stand corrected, I was told that by a postie mate West Ham who used to deliver there, he was from Belfast must off said one of the biggest?
The Downham Tavern was the words largest pub and in the Guinness book of records for the longest bar so I got something right. Becontree is massive btw.
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Takashi Miike
1:55 Sun Aug 12
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theaxeman 7:47 Sat Aug 11
it was tasty, as was The Lotus. both run by the Johnson brothers
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only1billybonds
1:30 Sun Aug 12
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Jake.
I dont know mate,i only became familiar with it from 75 onwards.
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jakehammer
1:20 Sun Aug 12
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Only1billybonds.
I used to live close to the pauls head as a young 'un in the late 50's. wasn't it called something else then?.
i'm probably wrong as age does play havoc with the old brain matter.
maybe someone here can enlighten me. i do remember walking with my mum over waste land (bomb sites) to get to primary school in those days
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the last eastender
10:32 Sat Aug 11
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Bferguson
Yep went to ra ras a few times myself. Ok as long as you behaved yourself.
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JohnnyL
10:29 Sat Aug 11
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Johnson ... I have loads of maps showing it in Victorian times as “part of Kent” ... do your history if you want but it’s fact.
https://deserter.co.uk/2016/11/reclaim-north-woolwich/
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B.ferguson1980
9:51 Sat Aug 11
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The Essex skipper in Harlow a bikers pub in the 1970s then a Combat 18 pub in the early 1990s.
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B.ferguson1980
8:34 Sat Aug 11
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Does anyone remember Ra Ras in Islington run by the Adams's more of a nightclub than a pub,Tony Adams ex missus worked as a barmaid there,the place was will moody.
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theaxeman
7:47 Sat Aug 11
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I always thought The Two Puddings was quite tasty but then again im not good at fighting so might have just been my perception of the gaff. The bouncer sitting on a stool with a baseball bat under it might have had something to do with that though!
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Johnson
7:38 Sat Aug 11
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Did it pick itself up and move south of the river then, Johnny?
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Wilko Johnson
7:37 Sat Aug 11
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Bullet 12:19 Sat Aug 11
It's been said so many times all over the country that this or that estate is the biggest. Becontree used to be in the Guinness Book Of Records as the largest estate in Europe, 26,000 dwellings. The second largest LCC estate was St Helier with 9,000. Downham had 6,000. Watling at Burnt Oak had 4,000.
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JohnnyL
5:11 Sat Aug 11
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My dad grew up in North Woolwich (mum in Silvertown) ... moved c 55 years ago before I was born but went back many times ... happy memories actually.
Ps. Interesting fact ... North Woolwich used to be in Kent ... yes north of river !
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Westham67
3:48 Sat Aug 11
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Toe Rag 11:21 Sat Aug 11
Ha ha sorry mate I got the wrong idea.
The Fanshawe was a walk in Friday night come out Monday morning sort of pub it had a room upstairs where you could crash out between sessions
It was a rough shithole of highest order equaled only by the Rose of Denmark in Silvertown
When the giro boys came in and done 2 weeks dole money in one session we used to call them King for a day
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eusebiovic
3:31 Sat Aug 11
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Last Saturday I went to Welling to watch Dulwich Hamlet play them in the first game of the season.
For a Saturday the high street was eerily quiet...the grand looking pub on the corner by the train station is now a Tesco Metro. As I walked down towards the ground most of the pubs still looked pretty tough apart from The Rose and Crown which was very clean & tidy.
There was also a micropub called "The Door Hinge" and I thought to myself that might be the first sign of gentrification.
I needn't have worried though...when I got to the front door there was a sign on the door which stated "Maximum Limit per person - 10 pints only"
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the last eastender
2:34 Sat Aug 11
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Gavros
North woolwich wasn't that rough nowhere near as rough as canning town or custom house.
Was a very tight community I know boys from areas like Leyton etc used to come unstuck down there same in canning town
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Gavros
12:57 Sat Aug 11
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Nothing wrong with the word betwixt.
*adjusts ruff and twirls moustachhe*
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Bullet
12:19 Sat Aug 11
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Old Kent Road on a Friday night was always lively in the late 70s early eighties. From what I heard the Duncow was always trouble, got talking to someone who said he was followed out of there and someone pulled a knife on him which he managed to grab pin him down and cut his ear off to teach him a lesson! Thomas A Becket had the boxing gym above. I knew one of the doormen professional heavyweight at the Henry Cooper who told me thee was always trouble.
Used to go mostly in The Kentish Drovers which was closer to the old den. Never any trouble until one night there was an altercation with the doormen who turned a few away, they came back with numbers and baseball bats, the four black doormen were overpowered and chased off down the road they then got behind the bar and smashed the place.
The Downham Tavern had the longest bar in the UK I believe, the Downham estate was also one of if not the biggest estate in the country. The Green Man at Catford was a NF Millwall pub, used to go to Jaspers disco next door until a black fella was stabbed and his mates chased onto a bus and one axed in the head.
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Bungo
12:10 Sat Aug 11
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Dunno about rough but just odd.
Does anyone remember the Swan in Hanworth (which has closed down now I think?)
Went in there a few years ago and it was as if somebody was filming a scene for a film, featuring the most 'old fashioned English pub' cliches ever.
Loads of oldish folks, horse brasses, copper tables, somebody banging some old 'roll out the barrel' type stuff on the piano, and EVERYONE in the pub singing along.
Maybe time travel is possible?
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Crassus
12:05 Sat Aug 11
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Hasans Fish Bar RIP 1:36 Sat
'John Kennedy. My god that was a rough council pub. Wasn’t expecting Aylesbury to have that much pond life'
Haha, funny you mention that, exactly one of the places I was thinking of in my plast post, we moved to Aylesbury when we left. Sleepy market town back in those days but had three or four dodgy council estates and each had a properly grim pub
Aylesbury is now an absolute hole
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