| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Hammersmith: Street map 1965 | |
| Posted by: | Stephen Hill | |
| Date/Time: | 13/01/08 16:14:00 |
| I’m sure someone will come up with the name of that ‘street’. It wasn’t a street really it was a wide pavement the houses on the left and the back garden wall of the Wilsons Road houses on the right. It was a lovely warm place in the summer because it got full sun all afternoon - except for the houses at the bottom near the underground rail whose sunlight was blocked by the electric sub-station. 14 Wilsons was also like that only our sun block was a warehouse. Have verified that the Lord Napier is a dead parrot, but which reminds me... On the opposite corner to the Napier was pre-war a sweet shop run by an old gent who wore a brown coat and brown mittens. After the war this shop turned into Joe Whites scrap metal yard. Joe was also a London cabbie who was also a frustrated entertainer - he liked to sing/croon and shuffle, twirl his stick and tip his hat with a big beaming smile - He left the Lane to open up another yard off the Goldhawk road whilst his brother (Todger) opened one in Beadon Hill - I think just under or past the bridge (everybody seemed to have funny names back then - Schnozzle, George the Glasses, Sunny Kelly, Tiger, Jibber etc). Joe and Carol had three children; Barrie, Cazzie and Carol - Cazzie may have been Carol in which case I’ve forgotten sister twos name - sorry my love -. However, the fiction was that I was their cousin, and when I came out of the RAF and started college I stayed at the House off Goldahawk Road until I could find a place to stay. During this time Carol’s birthday came around and I kidded Carol along about her shoe size because I wanted to get her a pair of ballet shoes for her birthday. I got her shoe size out of her without her suspecting anything and went up to Soho and bought her a pair from the ballet shoe shop - Gambons I think it was -. Come the birthday and present opening time Carol was over the moon/sick as a parrot. Her mum, Carol, told me later that the shoe size she gave was smaller than her actual size and she had to get mum to go and change them for the correct size. Carol was the star of Poor Cow Directed by Ken Russell. Sadly, as some of you may know she died quiet young over in the States. Carols mum and Cazzie(?) ran a dress shop up the Fulham Palace Road and Barrie went out to the sticks to open another bigger and better scrap metal yard. Steve |