| Topic: | Re:Re:why do so few people want to receive this newsletter ? | |
| Posted by: | Stephen Hill | |
| Date/Time: | 11/01/08 20:26:00 |
| It's us that make it a good read. That's me us who hasn't posted on this thread before :-) I noticed that a lot of the mailers seem to be from Fulham so where are the Hammesmith crowd. I'm from Hammersmith, that is, in my 75 years, I've lived in Hammersmith for 10 of them. Your birth place has the most amazing pull. While I was evacuated I couldn't wait to get back to jump the barges under the bridge. To paw over the bric-a-brac dumped outside the Lyric. To use the dog-walk down to the Thames by the Doves/Aruthusa (spelling). To hitch a ride on the Manbre and Garten steam lorries on thier way from the lights on Fulham Palace Road to the work's gates. Cadging ice from the ice factory on Hammersmith Bridge Road. Helping mum to pick up coal from the coal yard at the top of the Mall. 'Fnding' friut among the stalls in Hammersmith market. My sister and I hand in hand chasing after my Aunt Lila from the Sacred Heart to Butterwick Cottages to get home to toasty bread on a long toasting fork. After a short interlude in Lutterworth with Leo Rochester, John Monteith and The Clinton brothers, among others, it was back to Hammersmith, but then on again to Gloucestershire, then Newcastle uopon Tyne then back to Hammersmith where it was drinks on a Saturday night at the Lord Napier, in Great Church Lane then back to Len and Lilas for a knees up. Saturday lunch was always at the eel and pie shop on the corner opposite the Odeon,. Then it was a quick look into the amusement arcade next to the Black and White Milk Bar and a stroll to Shepherds Bush market. Saturday night was dancing lessons over the pub on the north corner of Shepheds Bush Road and Goldhawk Road right next door the the music hall. On Sunday as I walked to the dance lessons given at the Hammersmith Palais I was always amazed at the overflow crowd at St Augustin's church next to Guinness' Buildings backed up from the church door right out onto the street gates where, when mass was over, with a smart about turn it was straight over to the pub opposite, or maybe a rolling walk throughthe Broadway past the Palais to the Garryowen (spelling) The thing I miss most is the eel pie and mash. I tried to get some eels the other day to to try make eel and pie but the eels are £10 a pound up here. I think I crammed more into my Hammersmith days then anywhere else Steve Hill |