Showing posts with label Wapping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wapping. Show all posts
Sunday, May 16, 2021

Come straight home

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I am sure that I was not a particularly stupid child but I did not seem to be able to understand the stricture "come straight home from...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Christmas has gone. Again

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Christmas seems to last a long time these days and suddenly its over.  Last Christmas was like no other and for many is best forgotten.   I ...
Monday, February 8, 2021

The A.F.S in Wapping

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 The AFS in Wapping My brother Tom joined the Auxiliary Fire service in 1938 soon after it was established.  The AFS was a volunteer service...
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Two Wapping Gardens

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There are two gardens in Wapping in London's East End which were not there when I was a boy before WW2. The Rose Garden is alongside ...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

St. Johns Church,Wapping

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As a child, between the wars I lived round the corner from the Anglican church of St John of Wapping. Catholic children in those days were...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Three centuries of one Family in a Sussex Village

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When the second world war came, thousands of London school children were evacuated and we went with our school from Wapping to Brighton. ...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Wapping and Dartmoor

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Of all the places in London's  East end which have been gentrified over the years,   Wapping is one that stands out. I'm wonderi...
Friday, May 15, 2015

A Dangerous childhood?

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By present day standards children between the wars lived quite dangerous lives in their leisure time. Hours spent without adult supervisio...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

When the Devil came to Wapping on Christmas Eve

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When the Devil came to Wapping on Christmas Eve Christmas around again and all is merry and bright, but there have always been som...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

A Christmas Raffle with a difference

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The Pig Raffle Between the two world wars, the local branch of the Transport and General Workers Union, of which Ernie (my Dad) was the ...