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Ooh Crayford Marshes, backdrop to some of my happiest childhood memories! Picking dandelion heads so my Dad could make dandelion wine, which I was too young to drink. It was apparently very potent! Those were the days when we made our own entertainment!! |
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Glad you've made it to the borough of my birth (if not residence)! Looking forward to more, and pleased too see a positive start. It's an easy place to write off as a sprawl of semi detached houses, but I always thought you'd scratch the surface and find some of its hidden corners. |
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A great start - looking forward to more.
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I've only been out that way once myself, quite a few years ago, and also recall a tribe of mini-motorbike fiends. A bona fide London subculture. |
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My favourite group of mini-motorbikers was the complete family (including small kids) attempting to ride a fleet of motorised vehicles up and over the footbridge at Slade Green station. Took a while, but they managed it. Different world... |
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Bexley born and bred, so I'm interested in what you made of the rest of the borough |
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Ah, thanks. I drove through Thamesmead South on the bus a week or so ago and I thought it was that of Clockwork Orange/Misfits Fame.
Spectacularly bleak, like many of London's brutalist marvels. Let's hope the blinkered developers don't get to pull these bits down in favour of glass and steel and planning buzzwords like 'luxury apartments' and 'affordable housing'. |
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Erith has a couple of great murals which are well worth a look if you're in the town and you like that sort of thing. The Thames Barge mural is on the side of the former White Hart pub on Wharfside Close, and the Erith Mural, rescued from the side of the old Riverside baths before they were demolished, is next to Riverside Shopping Centre. |
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