norbold Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 I understand there is a brilliant new book being published today. All about growing up in Hackney in the 1950s and 60s and contains a part about going to speedway in the 60s and how the author came to be named after a speedway rider...Looks good. More info here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pie-Mash-Prefabs-1950s-Childhood/dp/1784181234/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425542499&sr=1-1&keywords=Norman+Jacobs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Amazingly, 70 years after the Second World War was over, we still have Prefabs in Sunderland. I believe these houses were built with a planned life of ten years. These homes are still standing and their Residents have them looking really smart and well preserved. They are super little houses. I wonder if some of the Properties that are being built now will have a similar life span? We shall see. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racers and royals Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 I understand there is a brilliant new book being published today. All about growing up in Hackney in the 1950s and 60s and contains a part about going to speedway in the 60s and how the author came to be named after a speedway rider...Looks good. More info here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pie-Mash-Prefabs-1950s-Childhood/dp/1784181234/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425542499&sr=1-1&keywords=Norman+Jacobs Not another book from Norman Jacobs-you would have thought he would have earned enough from quiz show winnings to retire 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted March 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 (edited) Writing books gives me something to do in my retirement. Edited March 5, 2015 by norbold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 No prefabs left here in south london. Pie and mash though, is still alive and kicking. Harrington's pie shop in tooting will be my destination tomorrow afternoon! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racers and royals Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 No prefabs left here in south london. Pie and mash though, is still alive and kicking. Harrington's pie shop in tooting will be my destination tomorrow afternoon! Wimbledon dogs was my destination on Tuesday evening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Wimbledon dogs was my destination on Tuesday evening.I ain't set foot in the place since the last speedway meeting in 2005. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racers and royals Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 I ain't set foot in the place since the last speedway meeting in 2005. Always have a table in the restaurant on "sky" nights-food is excellent and a top evening of open races. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Always have a table in the restaurant on "sky" nights-food is excellent and a top evening of open races.i worked in dog racing for 22 years at all of the big london tracks. I followed in my mums footsteps, she worked at Wimbledon, wandsworth and park royal in the 1960's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted March 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 I lived right next door to Clapton Greyhound Stadium. We certainly knew all about it on Thursday and Saturday evenings... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 I never went to clapton, but it looked like an impressive stadium from the photos I have seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 I never went to clapton, but it looked like an impressive stadium from the photos I have seen. Clapton was never a speedway track. There was a Clapton team but based - as I recall - at Lea Bridge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Clapton was never a speedway track. There was a Clapton team but based - as I recall - at Lea Bridge?we were talking about clapton greyhound stadium in millfields road, not lea bridge speedway stadium, which was in lea bridge road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 we were talking about clapton greyhound stadium in millfields road, not lea bridge speedway stadium, which was in lea bridge road. Yes I understand that. I just wanted to clarify where the Clapton speedway team raced. http://londonspeedways.proboards.com/thread/250/clapton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 No prefabs left here in south london. Pie and mash though, is still alive and kicking. Harrington's pie shop in tooting will be my destination tomorrow afternoon! Is Tubby Isaacs the Jellied Eel man still going strong down the Mile End Road?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOBBATH Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 Just a minute-you mean to tell me Norbold is really Norman Jacobs??All joking apart I think you are a talented writer mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Panda Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 You say about prefabs............where I live in Bournemouth a lot of prefabs built after the war............the road I live in was mostly them.........then in the mid 1990's the council removed all the exterior cladding on them and brick built round them and put proper roofs on them not metal ones..........and completely modernised them.................we bought ours in 2002 and the internal walls are still the original ones..........from when they were first built.............. RP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salty Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 I understand there is a brilliant new book being published today. All about growing up in Hackney in the 1950s and 60s and contains a part about going to speedway in the 60s and how the author came to be named after a speedway rider...Looks good. More info here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pie-Mash-Prefabs-1950s-Childhood/dp/1784181234/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425542499&sr=1-1&keywords=Norman+Jacobs Good luck with the book, Norbold. Though it seems by the "customers who viewed this" list at the bottom of the Amazon page that it is quite a saturated market. Hopefully your superior prose will make it a cut above the rest of the herd! I've got interested in that era of life in the East End in the past couple of years. Ironically enough the FPO watching "Call the Midwife" sparked the interest again. Re Prefabs: the school where I work is adjacent to the "Tintown" of Taughmonagh mentioned in the link. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-29254528 Still known as Tin Town by the locals even though the prefabs went about 30 years ago. No prefabs left here in south london. Pie and mash though, is still alive and kicking. Harrington's pie shop in tooting will be my destination tomorrow afternoon! I used to work in an office just on the other side of the Broadway from Harrington's and can well remember the queues on a Friday morning. Used to drink in the Selkirk as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 Is Tubby Isaacs the Jellied Eel man still going strong down the Mile End Road?.i think it closed a couple of years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 Just a minute-you mean to tell me Norbold is really Norman Jacobs??All joking apart I think you are a talented writer mate. Shock! Horror! What Subterfuge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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