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GEEZA WHAT PART IS BORING ?? im from london born east end ,lived adult ealing .putney ,chelsea where were you ??? lol

Eh! What are you going on about JohnA, who are you asking, replying too, again, EH?

I lived in different parts of essentially the same area, Southall, Hounslow and Hayes.
I can still recall as a teen walking the wet grimy pavements thinking there has to be a better place than this to live.

You should have moved into town a bit. I used to live in the Notting Hill / Ladbroke Grove / Kensal Rise / Shepherd's Bush area.

/of course now I live in Vegas which is a lot less wet
//just as grimy though

Hounslow, isn't that the place with the Art Deco factory?
Lived all over London, mainly Holland Park, just, Maida Vale, Paddington and South Kensington. Had to be within walking distance of the parks, can't do tubes, don't mind buses, but tubes, not a chance, I was the one on the floor passed out gasping for breath. o

Born East London stayed there most of the life, lived other places around UK for short periods until I came here.

Texas - East London yea sorta the same if you blink fast enough lol

You have to find something you love about everywhere you live. Even if you have to move away from a place before you realise that there was something about it that you loved after all, no matter how much you hated it.

Know that area well you beat me over here by about a year .

southall when i lived in that area (sw london) was getting to be little india , my girl lived in hounslow ( feltham) actually i remember chiswick empire , eal pie island , earls court arena , and of course wembley stadium ...

miss shopping in knighsbridge and *harrods* and roughing it down in portabello road.

Some of us seem to have walked the same streets. I lived in different parts of Paddington pretty well all my life over there, went to school in West kensington, Across the road and round the corner from Olympia. I also know the chiswick empire, the Bush, Loftus Road, and we regularly rode our bikes out to Slough or Staines etc, stopped for a cuppa at the Better 'Ole, and played football at the Scrubs.

Southall is where my dad was born and raised: Townsend Road. I believe I still have a very elderly aunt and some cousins in that area as well as Hayes. I used to go and stay with them when I was a young child. Seems odd really we lived in the (then) Essex countryside as my dad decided after WW2 that he wanted to get out of London and now the part of Essex we lived in is full of Londoners and is no longer "countryside"

Maybe we ahve passed each other like shios in the night "its a small world " the memories are coming back reading this thread . as a teen i was sorta homeless i sopend some tiem living with aunt in hanwell and a freind in ealing as well as a work bubby in hillingdon until i moved permantly to chelsea .* never could find a way to move back to the east end where my roots are* i did spend a lot in places like hammersmith palace listening and dancing to the music of ted heath and other dance orchestras . i saw tommy trinder , max wall at the chiswick empire and tommy cooper at the majestic (?) and have a programe of bill haleys farewell night at the london paladium . other artists i saw where tony hancock, peter sellers , max bygraves , and frankie howard .
As a young teen with nothing to do and being a natural voyeur with nowhere to hang my hat ( so to speak ) i must confess i spend a great amount of pounds "when i could get in " at a place called the "windmill " in londons west end those trips certainly raised my spirits amounst other things .

lol lol lol



http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windmill_Theatre

Bloody 'ell, John, stop it. The Lou Preager Orchestra played the 'Ammersmiff Palais de Danse, with Paul Rich as lead vocal, there was another guy, Rusty something. I also went to the Windmill a few times, fourth rate comedians, but the girls were brilliant.

Trinder was chairman of the board at Fulham. I remember Jimmy Hill with his beard. I remember Trinder saying that during a game, George Cohen brought the ball up, and Jimmy Hill was open and yelling for the ball. A fan shouted in a big voice, "Georgie my boy, when the Rabbi wants the ball, you give it to 'im. :grin:

I was still attached to my roots, but I palled up for a while with a kid on his own who had a pad near us for a while. He took me to an Old Time Music Hall near Kings Cross. I saw Randolph Sutton and Ella Shields. They were old and on their last legs, but they were good old troopers.

This is for moo. I just looked at the hammersmith Palais to see who is on today. Kasabian + the Enemy

Hey you guys you are making me cry :cry: You are bringing back memories of a lot of the places my dad used to talk about.

Apparently it's an Art Museum of some kind these days. Only reason I know this is because there's an exhibition going on that was just vandalised by some anti-oil protesters.

oh dear hope we havnt *done the deed *with the same girl ???