Big brother finally comes to Crayford. spotted last friday afternoon the man from BB up his ladder fixing a camera to the lamppost outside the Charlotte , another one is postioned at the round about with tower retail park, and a third at the junction of the high st and london road opp the Bear and rubbish staff, was Bexley council expecting trouble after the England USA match that same evening ? where Sid and Doris Bonkers on there way from Neasden to stir things up? i think we should be told.. Peter of the Charlotte said he had no idea that the cameras was being installed, and his wifes a Crayford councillor!!
I hadn't noticed the cameras - but will look our for them now!
ReplyDeleteIn the 1950's I (and fellow children) were often left in the Charlotte's raised seating area (far less posh than today!) whilst the adults drank inside. They came out now and again to hand out bottles of lemonade and bags of greasy Smith's crisps (3 or more blue twists of salt were considered major miracles) Meanwhile, we amused ourselves by spotting the steam trains. A far better view from there - if you simply heaved yourself up the wall of the bridge you were covered in smoke and saw absolutely nothing!
Lovely descriptive massage, thank you , only been living in crayford this past 7 years but love this little town, arrived here from my roots in Victoria via Abbywood (youngest sister used to call it happy wood) and Eltham. Plenty of steam trains in Victoria!!
ReplyDeleteMy grandad was a flour miller in what used to be Vitbe's on the Thames Road, my uncle a blacksmith and farrier in the forge where the car park of the Dukes Head now is. My father was a gardener in Eardemont (now a housing estate off Iron Mill Lane (and he was born in The Jolly Farmers where his parents rented a room)
ReplyDeletePubs seem to have played a big part in my family's past!