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Linda Barker and Other Celeb Types in the Area
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Lola
Joined 24-11-2006
Posted on Monday, 27 November, 2006 - 03:26 pm:


Apparently Spike Milligan used to live in SE23 - 22 Gabriel Street to be exact. I think we need a blue plaque to commemerate his comic genius.

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Andy
Joined 23-02-2005
Posted on Monday, 27 November, 2006 - 04:53 pm:


He also lived in no 50 Riseldine Road, Honor Oak.

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Lola
Joined 24-11-2006
Posted on Friday, 22 December, 2006 - 12:41 pm:


Just this morning, at HOP station, there I was waiting for the 8.45 and I spotted an actor who regularly frequents our TV screens. Of course I can't remember his name or even the name of a film he has been in so now I am tortured trying to find out his name. I have spotted him a few times before at HOP station so whilst he may not definitely live in SE23, he regularly frequents our area. So, can we put our collective heads together and figure out who he is? He is quite plump, about 50, short brown hair and has distinctive squinted eyes. He's like a younger less jolly, posher Richard Griffiths. He has regularly featured in period dramas, especially around the 1940's in which he has had his hair oiled down to his head making him look vaguely repressed/sinister. My friend thinks his name may be Anthony Higgins, but I've no idea what Antony Higgins looks like and websearches have been fruitless. Can you help?

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Sherwood
Joined 30-03-2005
Posted on Wednesday, 27 December, 2006 - 09:54 pm:


Try imdb.com

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001891/

Anthony Higgins is 6 feet 2 inches tall and has apeared in many films.

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Dommy
Joined 27-05-2004
Posted on Tuesday, 02 January, 2007 - 04:13 pm:


Timothy Spall?

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Forester
Joined 04-02-2006
Posted on Tuesday, 02 January, 2007 - 04:39 pm:


There is an excellent young comedian living in the area who has won several national awards. I won't give his name away because he likes his anonymity. Connie Fisher who won the Sound of Music Maria role lives in Sydenham.

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Seeformiles
Joined 09-04-2005
Posted on Wednesday, 03 January, 2007 - 01:58 am:


I don't think it's Anthony Higgins - he was in the Draughtman's Contract and doesn't fit your description. Could you be thinking of someone who starred in the New Statesman with Rik Mayall? I think he got a mention on these threads sometime ago.

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Roz
Joined 17-03-2005
Posted on Thursday, 04 January, 2007 - 06:57 am:


I think the guy who played the (corrupt) bishop in Robin Hood;Prince of Thieves ( the one with Kevin Costner- on TV last night) lives in Forest Hill- I see someone just like him on the station platform most mornings. Anyone else noticed?

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Simod
Joined 28-11-2006
Posted on Monday, 08 January, 2007 - 09:19 am:


From memory, I'm sure I've read somewhere that its either Timothy SPALL or the other short 'plump' fella from the old builders drama Auf' Pet who lives in the area.

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Sherwood
Joined 30-03-2005
Posted on Monday, 08 January, 2007 - 09:25 am:


It definitely is Timothy Spall.

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Brian
Joined 18-04-2005
Posted on Monday, 08 January, 2007 - 01:21 pm:


Yes Sherwood I remember Rolf Harris living in Border Road in 60's. He had a signed photo in dry cleaners.
When he was on This Is Your Life in 60's he had an Aboriginal Gentleman camping in the garden

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Loneranger
Joined 29-10-2005
Posted on Monday, 08 January, 2007 - 02:01 pm:


An actor who is said to live in the area is Valentine Pelka.

http://www.vpfc.org/

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Sherwood
Joined 30-03-2005
Posted on Monday, 08 January, 2007 - 03:30 pm:


Rolf Harris lived at numbers 1 & 3 Border Road. He had two houses joined together.

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Lola
Joined 24-11-2006
Posted on Monday, 08 January, 2007 - 04:57 pm:


Back onto the subject of the HOP actor with a squint and without a name. Whilst Timothy Spall also lives in HOP, this is not the actor who I have spotted. He is a bit taller, posher and darker and tends to be typecast as sinister, uptight and villainous. It is also not Harold Innocent who was the corrupt bishop in Robin Hood with Kevin Costner. It also isn't Anthony Higgins as this man is about 5 foot 10 inches, not 6 foot 2. I think he was in a Peter Greenaway film but not the Draughtman's contract but of course I can't remember... The key characteristic which I think may prompt memories is this actor's severe squint... Anybody?

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Seeformiles
Joined 09-04-2005
Posted on Thursday, 11 January, 2007 - 02:00 am:


Hmmm the Valentine person looks very much like a regular at Forest Hill pools. Pretty sure it was him. I've just checked Anthohy Higgins biog and he was in the Draughtsman's Contract.
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Seeformiles
Joined 09-04-2005
Posted on Thursday, 11 January, 2007 - 02:03 am:


According to this Knowhere guide to FH the person you mention was in The New Statesmen. Not that this is the last word, but it's better than nothing:

http://knowhere.co.uk/4042_heroes.html

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Roz
Joined 17-03-2005
Posted on Thursday, 11 January, 2007 - 08:23 am:


Blimey, seeformiles, you've been up all night thinking about this?

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Andy
Joined 23-02-2005
Posted on Thursday, 11 January, 2007 - 08:27 am:


Sounds like he could do with some posh glasses.

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Roz
Joined 17-03-2005
Posted on Thursday, 11 January, 2007 - 08:29 am:


Seemingly Harold Innocent died in 1993, two years after Robin Hood was made, so unless he's haunting the station, I've made a bit of a mistake.

Was the guy in the New Statesman called Piers- another EuroMP who shared Alan Bstards office?

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Lillam
Joined 15-04-2006
Posted on Tuesday, 16 January, 2007 - 06:08 pm:


I was watching a documentary about Punk the other night called Punk Attitutde directed by Don Letts. Don was the reggae DJ at the Roxy that was responsible for the Punk/Reggae cross over here in UK - which went on the create band like Madness and the like. He's also madea bunch of music documentaries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Letts

Anyway, in the docu Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders said that she lived in Forest Hill at the time, as did Don Letts himself.

Anyone who was anyone on the pUnk scene would come down to Don's flat and hang out (I imagine this was especially true of the "BRomley COntingent" , such as Souxie Soux and Billie Idol etc.,

On the off chance, does anyone know where this flat might have been? In the documentary you actually see footage of inside the flat - It looks like a forest hill flat alright!

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Sherwood
Joined 30-03-2005
Posted on Tuesday, 16 January, 2007 - 08:35 pm:


I have recognised an actor who lives about two roads away from me. Eventually, I have been able to put aname to his face. It is John Arthur. I have seen him in several programmes.

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Essjaygee
Joined 24-01-2007
Posted on Monday, 29 January, 2007 - 10:43 am:


Les - spookily I have a sneaking suspicion that ex-girlfriend might have been me....

Anyway, I actually had a conversation with Linda Barker in September 2005 (ITV's anniversary, whenever that was...). I provide the full transcript of that conversation below:
ME: Hi Linda, do you still live in Forest Hill?
LB: NO.

Fin.

Hope that clears up matters. It was, as you see, a deep, thought provoking moment.

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Loneranger
Joined 29-10-2005
Posted on Monday, 29 January, 2007 - 06:14 pm:


Essjaygee...err is your Bill appearance on your showreel? There must be some interesting actors CV's....'played corpse in mortuary, covered by a shroud but feet seen with label attached...'

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Essjaygee
Joined 24-01-2007
Posted on Wednesday, 31 January, 2007 - 11:57 am:


No- weren't my feet. I went out with someone who knew them though. And I used to live on Devonshire Road.

I would put them on my CV/showreel if they were, though, but very carefully, and not without a hint of irony.

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Loneranger
Joined 29-10-2005
Posted on Tuesday, 13 February, 2007 - 05:22 pm:


According to Lewisham Guide, Boris Karloff better known as Frankenstein lived in Forest Hill before moving to Hollywood.

The thriller writer (no not the Michael Jackson song) Raymond Chandler lived in Devonshire Road.

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Bigjulie
Joined 09-04-2005
Posted on Tuesday, 13 February, 2007 - 08:57 pm:


There is a blue plaque on the house where Boris Karloff was born. It is in Forest Hill Road, SE22

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ radio/specials/1758_blue_plaque/page17.shtml

I seem to remember about 5 years ago there was a shortlived wine bar called "Karloffs" a few doors away.

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Fhssecretary
Joined 12-10-2006
Posted on Tuesday, 13 February, 2007 - 10:11 pm:


Don't go by the Beeb's map though...

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Roz
Joined 17-03-2005
Posted on Tuesday, 13 February, 2007 - 10:47 pm:


Linda Barker lives in Underhill Road. Not quite FH but not too far away. Reliable sources tell me that she still uses the video shop in Dartmouth Road.

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Bigjulie
Joined 09-04-2005
Posted on Tuesday, 13 February, 2007 - 11:48 pm:


This is embarrasing, but who is Linda Barker? what is she famous for?

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Bt
Joined 27-07-2003
Posted on Wednesday, 14 February, 2007 - 07:55 am:


I've often seen Stephen Lewis (Smiler-Last of the Summer Wine : Blakey - On the Buses) in Sainsburys.

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Scipio
Joined 08-05-2005
Posted on Thursday, 01 March, 2007 - 09:36 am:


The Guildhall Art Gallery has an exhibition Painting the Victorian Age until Sunday. The paintings featured are by William Powell Frith who has an SE23 connection. Never heard of him? Read this article http://www.dulwichsociety.org.uk/newsletter/200609 -26-29.shtml

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Fhssecretary
Joined 12-10-2006
Posted on Friday, 23 March, 2007 - 10:31 am:


To add to Peter Perrett and Don Letts... the more contemporary figure of Luke Pritchard, former boyfriend of Katie Melua and singer in popular beat combo The Kooks, turns out to be from Forest Hill too. Although he moved to Clapham when he was 3 - which was clearly the start of his sliding credibility.

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Kingkong
Joined 22-10-2006
Posted on Friday, 30 March, 2007 - 01:07 pm:


Saw Shaun Wright Philipps of Chelsea reserves and England sitting in a flash new Mercedes coupe outside a house on Stillness Road last night. Also regularly see Hugh Fearnly-Whittganstall driving down our road as well. I think Wright Philipps is from around here, didn't he go to Haberdashers Aske's school in Brockley?

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Ghis
Joined 02-01-2007
Posted on Friday, 30 March, 2007 - 01:24 pm:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Wright-Phillips

He did

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Roz
Joined 17-03-2005
Posted on Friday, 30 March, 2007 - 06:20 pm:


I think his gran lives around Stillness Road; she attends the church on the junction of Wickham Road and Brockley Rise- I was involved in a housing project near there and found this out.
I always thought it an interesting coincidence that he was so good at football and wonder how far this was a result of 'nurture' by his adoptive father rtaher than ' nature'. Otherwise a coincidence?

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Bigjulie
Joined 09-04-2005
Posted on Friday, 06 April, 2007 - 05:16 pm:


The Only Ones have reformed (with original line up).
"This is an improbable reunion" - a heritage rock magazine.

There was an interview with Peter Perrett in yesterdays Guardian and he talks about the days he was "sequestered in a crumbling gothic house in Forest Hill that he fortified against police raids". He dealt heroin then and now talks about declining standards of morality among drug addicts "In my day, being a drug dealer was a respectable f...in' profession".
Oh, for the good old days of honest drug abuse.
Great to hear they've reformed though and don't worry, P.P. now lives in Norwood.

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Mandy_playbox
Joined 25-11-2004
Posted on Tuesday, 10 April, 2007 - 02:12 pm:


And I will be seeing them at All Tomorrow's Parties at the end of the month

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Baggydave
Joined 19-05-2004
Posted on Friday, 13 April, 2007 - 12:05 pm:


Younger viewers may wish to look at my Rockin in Forest Hill thread, now no doubt transferred to the archives, which included links to photos of bands in the Forest Hill area in the 70s and 80s. Mandy - don't recall you posing for some time, perhaps others are waiting to return. All Tomorrow's Parties sounds a bit of an intense event - or am I getting this mixed up with the large annual punk reunion

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Laura
Joined 19-07-2006
Posted on Friday, 13 April, 2007 - 03:34 pm:


ATP is an artist-curated music festival held a few times a year at a holiday camp - for years it was Pontins at Camber Sands, now it's Butlins all the way over at Minehead. They often get "classic" bands to reform to play - has included Television and Love in the past. But there's always loads of obscure stuff and very new performers, too.

Being in a holiday park it's anything but intense. How can it be intense when you stay in a chalet and you get to go to the beach? Favourite memory: goths playing crazy golf in the sunshine. Happy days Smile

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Laura
Joined 19-07-2006
Posted on Wednesday, 02 May, 2007 - 02:02 pm:


Saw The Only Ones on Friday night - Pete Perrett's certainly showing the signs of a life lived on the rock 'n' roll edge. He came on stage to a unified gasp of "My goodness, he's looking barely alive!", or perhaps something more, er, colloquial than that. You get the drift.

I saw him wandering around a bit over the weekend - he looks even frailer close up. There's a lesson to be learned there, boys and girls. Maybe.

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Michael
Joined 04-03-2005
Posted on Thursday, 21 June, 2007 - 09:02 pm:


So we can now add Andy Coulson, David Cameron's spin doctor, to the list of famous residents.

If we are allowed fictional people, Siobhan Clarke's parents, Eve and Teddy live in Forest Hill. Reference can be found on pages 27 and 276 of 'The Naming of the Dead' by Ian Rankin, the latest Rebus novel. Something for all the Forest Hill book groups to read. The question is why did Ian Rankin choose to be so specific, is there a real life Forest Hill connection? Perhaps if any of the Forest Hill book groups are surprised by a TV crew and the author they can ask him.

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Michael
Joined 04-03-2005
Posted on Friday, 20 July, 2007 - 10:18 pm:


Bob from Brockley (http://brockley.blogspot.com/2007/07/lew...drink.html) draws our attention to Jim Connell, an ex-resident of Honor Oak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Connell who made good use of the train journey home to write the Socialist Anthem.

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Baggydave
Joined 19-05-2004
Posted on Saturday, 04 August, 2007 - 09:22 am:


I am so excited. Helen Worth, born Cathryn Helen Wigglesworth, better known during my brief time watching Corrie as Gail Tilsley, was, wait for it, a regular at the Moore Park Tavern. Why she lived in London and commuted to Manchester I haven?t a clue, although she still has a flat in the metropolis. Did she live in SE23, does she still live in SE23? Any answers out there?

Green squawking birds are also another famous resident, but not seen too many of the red neck variety recently.

(thanks to Phil the builder for the Gail connection - we are talking 20 years or more ago.

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Sherwood
Joined 30-03-2005
Posted on Saturday, 04 August, 2007 - 10:12 pm:


She seems to have a flat in London. But I cannot find out where. If you saw her in the MPT, possibly she lives in Dulwich.

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Pj
Joined 14-08-2007
Posted on Tuesday, 14 August, 2007 - 09:21 pm:


Not quite a famous person living in SE23 but a famous person who died in (or at least, very near) was original AC/DC lead singer Bon Scott who was found dead from alcohol poisoning in a van outside his friend's flat in Overhill Road. You can still see some graffiti in his memory outside the property.

I can give another sighting of Linda Barker and her SUV in Underhill Road. I also heard the butcher in Wood Vale boasting about how she'd bought a roast from him that she was going to serve to some z-list celebs that she was entertaining.

If she did live where I saw her then I suspect she was responsible for an intensely irritating security system that boomed out "you are trespassing on private property ... the police have been called" several times most nights. Only a self-important celebrity could be paranoid enough to install something like that. That said, I haven't seen her of heard the offending alarm for at least 3 years now so she's probably moved (or she eventually realized that foxes were activated the s**ding thing every night and switched it off)

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Michael
Joined 04-03-2005
Posted on Tuesday, 18 September, 2007 - 10:48 am:


I see that Linda Barker will be switching on the Christmas lights at the Honor Oak pub this year.

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Triangle
Joined 08-05-2007
Posted on Tuesday, 18 September, 2007 - 03:48 pm:


For those among us who can remember when actors earned their keep (I'm talking 1950's & 60's here...) I can confirm that both Welshmen Meredith Edwards (Film - The Cruel Sea) and Richard Davies (TV comedy - Please Sir!) lived in Canonbie Road. Just around the corner at the bottom of Ringmore Rise lived actor Ronald Hines, who used to pop up in things like the Avengers, Doomwatch and Elizabeth R. And if you've just mouthed "Who?" then you're simply too young!

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Vipes
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Posted on Tuesday, 18 September, 2007 - 04:16 pm:


The bloke who did our blinds reckons Brenda Blethyn lives on Ringnmore Rise.

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IWereAbsolutelyFuming


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24-10-2007 08:33 AM


New one, for those of us with kids. Sarah-Jane from cbeebies (Tikkabilla, Higgledy Piggledy House etc) was waiting on platform 1 this morning.

She was reading a kids magazine/comic - research I hope.

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Sherwood


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24-10-2007 11:56 AM

She used to be a contortionist. So I suppose she will be at home travelling on our trains!
BTW she looks gorgeous.

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michael


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24-10-2007 11:26 PM

Sherwood wrote:
BTW she looks gorgeous.


With the new forum we can do this....


Picture of Sarah-Jane Honeywell for Sherwood and those waiting for trains.

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spartan army


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25-10-2007 07:48 AM

michael wrote:
[quote=Sherwood]
BTW she looks gorgeous.


which station?

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IWereAbsolutelyFuming


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25-10-2007 07:55 AM

Forest Hill.

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Sherwood


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25-10-2007 11:51 AM

I think I will take up train spotting as a hobby.
But only at Forest Hill railway station!

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Sherwood


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25-10-2007 08:08 PM

Michael,

Thank you for posting that photograph.

Fphwooaargh!

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hilltopgeneral


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26-10-2007 08:42 AM

I know Forest Hill isn't exactly totty central, but I worry about some of you people

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Sherwood


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27-10-2007 07:28 PM

Hilltopgeneral,

If you are saying that the ladies of Forest Hill are not top totty, I hope you have a secure bunker to take refuge in!

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roz


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27-10-2007 08:26 PM

Thats not Sarah Jane, thats Gail Platt from Corrie.

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michael


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29-10-2007 12:49 PM

roz wrote:
Thats not Sarah Jane, thats Gail Platt from Corrie.


Gail Platt:

or more recently


Stay calm Sherwood!

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baggydave


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30-10-2007 07:12 PM

Michael, you tease, clearly you know that Gail did frequent the Moore Park Tavern, six degrees of separation?
And for those of you watching Master Mind last night and the guy with Joe Orton as his specialist round - not one question about Wood Vale - what is going on Humphries?
Back to the ladies - this is the frighting sort of thing you would witness if you moved out to LB Bromley
http://www.speakeasy.net/~vamp/Siouxsie/Images/pray.jpg
Don't seem to be able to cut the picture in directly

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Zeus


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04-11-2007 12:18 PM

baggydave wrote:
Michael, you tease, clearly you know that Gail did frequent the Moore Park Tavern, six degrees of separation?


Baggydave,
May I ask exatly where is the Moore Park Tavern? Do you mean the Moore Park Hotel as was?

On the celeb issue, Jenny Eclaire lives in East Dulwic and Brenda Blthyn does not live in Ringmore Rise, I suspect she's another Dulwich resident.

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roz


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04-11-2007 10:00 PM

Please can someone;

1) tell me how to put pictures on this website a la Michael as I tried to put some of Gail on here and failed miserably.

2) start up a separate thread on six degrees of separation ( the theory not just the film) as its a fascinating subject and one which my family were discussing all weekend.

3) Even scarier- anyone else fancy a Corrie thread.......

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admin
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05-11-2007 02:51 PM

roz wrote:
Please can someone;

1) tell me how to put pictures on this website a la Michael as I tried to put some of Gail on here and failed miserably.

While composing, use the button circled:

roz wrote:
2) start up a separate thread on six degrees of separation ( the theory not just the film) as its a fascinating subject and one which my family were discussing all weekend.

3) Even scarier- anyone else fancy a Corrie thread.......

Why not start both yourself? Smile

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10-12-2007 09:14 AM

According to Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders) both she and Joe Strummer (The Clash) lived in a flat in Forest Hill "with the guys who became the Basement Five".
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/t...005084.ece

So we have more punk roots in Forest Hill. I'm surprised BD has not mentioned this previously. For more on punk in Forest Hill see - http://www.se23.com/forum-archive/messages/9/722.html

Is it possible that London Calling (the obvious choice for our national anthem when London declares its independence) was written in a flat in Forest Hill, just like the Socialist anthem The Red Flag?

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lillam


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michael wrote:
According to Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders) both she and Joe Strummer (The Clash) lived in a flat in Forest Hill "with the guys who became the Basement Five".
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/t...005084.ece

So we have more punk roots in Forest Hill. I'm surprised BD has not mentioned this previously. For more on punk in Forest Hill see - http://www.se23.com/forum-archive/messages/9/722.html

Is it possible that London Calling (the obvious choice for our national anthem when London declares its independence) was written in a flat in Forest Hill, just like the Socialist anthem The Red Flag?


Aye, heres more on that note:

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I have been reading 'Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers' (SAF: London, 2007), the autobiography of Don Letts, DJ, film-maker, member of Big Audio Dynamite and general mischief maker. Don grew up in Brixton, going to Christchurch Primary School and Archbishop Tennison secondary, but during the punk period when he was DJing at the Roxy club (early 1977) he 'moved to a grand old house in Forest Hil, built on the second highest point in London' with his then girlfriend Jeanette Lee - later a member of Public Image Ltd and later still co-owner of Rough Trade records. Leo Williams and JR, who were in black post-punk band The Basement 5, lived there and 'Both Joe Strummer and Chrissie Hynde also lived there at different times'.

Letts also mentions 'hanging out with John Lydon after the Pistols' gig at the Nashville. We went back to my house in Forest Hill and spent the whole night talking about reggae music and Jamaican culture'. 'After the shows at the Roxy, Chrissie Hynde, some of the Slits, the Clash, Generation X and the Pistols would hang out in Forest Hill, often all at the same time', while Letts spliced together the super 8 film that would become 'The Punk Rock Movie'. All in all, the house in Forest Hill sounds like a punk powerhouse. Not sure of the address or whether the present occupiers would necessarily want to know if they've read the book which also describes a sad teenage suicide in the house.

http://transpont.blogspot.com/2007/12/do...-hill.html

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Also, this one:

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Part of the Transpontine mission is to document the various byways of music in South London. In this spirit, and courtesy of Graham Burnett's 'Anarcho-punk archives', we bring you this treasure from Forest Hill, circa 1985.

The teepee belonged to Steve Ignorant of anarcho-punk legends Crass, and was in the garden of the house where members of fellow punk pacifists Flux of Pink Indians lived. Flux put out their first (and in my view best) LP, 'Strive to Survive Causing Least Suffering Possible' in 1982. I even had the All the Arms we Need' poster from this on my bedsit wall.

Derek Birkett of the band later formed One Little Indian records, putting out lots of cool stuff by Bjork, Alabama 3, Kitchens of Distinction and many others.

In fact, Bjork was interviewed at the Forest Hill One Little Indian HQ for Sounds in 1987 (read it here), when she was still in the Sugarcubes.

http://transpont.blogspot.com/2005/05/st...least.html

I would love to know where the One Little Indian HQ was in FH, but Im a bit nerdy like that...

On the subject of record companies in Forest HIll, Fashion REcords (a UK reggae label) used to run out of an industrial unit, opposite the back of Shannons Garden Centre, whilst Hopsital records (a leading jazzy drum and bass label) still have their offices up the top of Dartmouth Road (technicaly SE26, but close enough).

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Ghis


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02-02-2008 06:41 PM

I believe I have jut walked pass Robert Webb in Gladiator Street (of Peep Show and Mitchell & Webb)

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