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Pete was a bit distressed over the whole incident.

That would be the ex girlfriends parents who live in Pwll Trap near St Clears. They moved there from Birmingham during the great drought of 1976. I think the rain in 1977 and then every year after was a bit of a shock. 'Allan the Gas' is knocking 80 now and still plumbing/gas fitting when the mood takes him.

Yes, I was thrown out of the RAF when they discovered I was only 5 years old. I think it was the ill fitting uniforms that gave me away (both feet in one boot). It was my Dad's second session in the RAF Police. He'd done it once as a National Serviceman when he was single and then joined up again a few years after when he was married. He was a dog handler, of course you have to sign a register if you get caught doing that nowadays.

Love to see the Krauser Stars. I've told you before, Lenor bottles are the urinal of choice for the discerning camper.

Born in Hillingdon, but then spent 4 years in Germany, then to Dagenham in time to start school, now the northern part of Essex since 1997. I think my Mum's family came from the Peckham area originally (like Del Trotter) and my Dad's family are from a fishing/sailing river estuary village near Colchester called Rowhedge. Graveyard is full of Powells. My grandparents on both sides moved into the same road in Dagenham in the late 1920s and that was where my Mum and Dad met as children.

Stoke On Trent.

I'm sure we all keep old stuff around the place that should really be cleared up. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/10/the-ruin-at-the-hairdresser/

You are just asking for this sunshine!

I heard this on that Elvis night the other week, I'd forgotten how much I liked it.

The Brick Lane beigal shop! From a Jack the Ripper site AREAS OF SETTLEMENT By the mid-nineteenth century, Anglo-Jewry had moved away from the original area of settlement in Aldgate and was to be found in Marble Arch, Canonbury, Dalston, and other havens of middle class tranquility. The Aldgate area had become, as had the rest of the City, largely non-residential and filled with warehouses, offices and banks. But, the district immediately east of Aldgate was about to become the Jewish area par excellence. By 1914, 90 per cent of all Jews in England would live in the crowded streets and alleys of Whitechapel, Spitalfields and St George's in the East. A ghetto was in formation. Why did the refugees choose this area to settle in? One reason was the presence of earlier poor Ashkenazi immigrants in the area; another was the existence of the soup kitchen. THE POOR JEWS TEMPORARY SHELTER Yet another was the existence from 1885 of the Poor Jews Temporary Shelter in Leman Street. This institution was founded by Hermann Landau (1849-1921). An immigrant, having been born at Constantinov in Poland, he rose to become a Hebrew teacher and, later, a stockbroker. Another attraction was the numerous chevrot (societies or clubs based on towns of origin) which existed to aid the newcomer. WHY THE DISTRICT BECAME THE GHETTO But two factors helped to determine that this district would become the ghetto. Firstly, the majority of refugees arrived by steamer from Hamburg and these docked at Irongate Wharf by Tower Bridge (where the Tower Thistle Hotel now stands in St Katharine's Dock); it is a universal wisdom that immigrants first settle where they get off the ship. Secondly, and most decisively, the East End in general was the least desirable part of town and, within the East End, the parishes of Spitalfields, Whitechapel and St George's were the least opulent of all. The immigrants had little choice but to settle here. They could not afford alternative accommodation, and would probably not be accepted as tenants elsewhere in the metropolis. The Jewish communities which had arrived in earlier centuries were, or would become, middle class. But in the nineteenth century working-class Jews were arriving. The earliest identifiable group of Jewish industrial workers were the Dutch Jews who settled in the Cobb Street, Leyden Street and Toynbee Street area of Spitalfields in the 1850s. It was among these workers, who were involved in the cigar and cigarette manufacturing industry, that the first strike of Jewish workers in England took place in 1858. The East European refugees introduced three elements which had not hitherto been present to any extent in Anglo-Jewry: socialism, trade unionism and Zionism. The Anglo-Jewish community had been very comfortable until the arrival of these strangers who dressed differently, spoke a foreign language (Yiddish) and carried their radical religious or political ideas with them. They were not really welcome, but they were fellow Jews and so, initially, they had to be welcomed. But as early as 1882 the Board of Guardians of the Jewish Poor was taking advertising space in the Jewish press in Russia and Romania warning potential immigrants that if they came to England they would face great hardships and that the Board would give them no relief in the first six months of their residence. The Board was swimming against the tide; the immigrants had faced a stark choice of choice life (if they left) or death (if they stayed). The hardships of England were as nothing compared to the hardships of home.

Wiggle the splined shaft as well to make sure the twin bearing the front sprocket shaft sits on has no lateral movement. In and out is okay though..........(ooer)

Another story of every day people coping with extraordinary circumstances and just getting on with it. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/09/lorna-brunstein-of-black-lion-yard/

750s ATs raced as well.

Whenever I am by the lightship it has a sign saying STUDIO over the door. I always thought someone was making music down there, now I know nit's more graphics type stuff from the video of their new office. The tide goes right out from under the ship, not sure how it doesn't tip over, didn't see any struts, maybe it is just tied to the wall very expertly.

I got 6 or 700 quid for my non running, filth covered 103,000 miler. I was going to try and give it away, I needed the room so I could have a bike ramp, but found someone who wanted a rusty non running project. They got it running (badly) but have not heard anything since.

The same pictures from the start of this thread had some bloke on the Super Tenere forum mention that he had seen a video about the red lightship having a load of expanded foam removed from the hold. I asked if he had a link and he has delivered. Only seen a few minutes so far, but I was cracking up when the rotavator came in to play and the home made giant hoover is amazing.

It's a great weight off my mind.

God bless ya. My school was terrible. I will always remember when the lights went down for a slide show in a physics class some of the boys in my class were hawking up phlegm on to the ends of their (shatterproof) plastic rulers and twanging it across the room in the dark. Fucking animals some of them were. Similar stuff was going on all the time. Our music teacher could make a kid shit themselves in fear if he turned his attention on you, the bloke was a bloody midget mind you, which gives some idea of his personality when he could still dominate a room of the scum in my own class. He also taught Judo and Karate after school and had a reputation for battering anyone he thought was not paying attention. I came home one day in my first year after a music lesson where we all had to play the poxy recorder. If you don't put your thumb under the hole at the bottom properly you get a squealing noise. Someone out our 30 pupils was doing it so he made each person play the first few notes on our own so he could give the guilty one a slap. I was terrified because I think it was me, but couldn't tell properly with everyone else playing at the same time. I got my notes out okay which was a relief. I told my dad about a scary teacher called Mr Thacker and he laughed at me and said, "Do you mean Lionel?" My dad was one of the school caretakers during my first few years there.

Do me a favour Pete, can you swap the O and U around in the thread title. I have spelt it incorrectly (I have a real blind spot with that word) and it is winding me up. I have made direction signs to the place and even then I had to check on a map and in a dictionary before sending the drawings off to the sign makers. This is the result of an English Comprehensive education at a rough school.

I expect some flunky is screwing on a gold plated toilet seat as I type.

It is now obvious to me that the royal family read this forum, they are starting to use it as a sort of tourist guide for outings. So, a warning, no big ear jokes. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10472235/Kate-Middleton-Prince-Charles-Camilla-visit-Trinity-Buoy-Wharf.html

Ahh yes, all through my youth I was told to not play that shitty loud music all the time, then one day it was, play the Daley Thompson song, play the Daley Thompson song.