Identity Crisis 18:22 - Jan 13 with 6390 views | MrSheen | After 31 years, more than half my life, I no longer live in Sheen. Do I need a new persona to go with my new location? Unfortunately I can’t think of any punning references for my new location. Any other Pimlico Rs? | | | | |
Identity Crisis on 16:32 - Jan 14 with 1079 views | NewBee |
Identity Crisis on 08:06 - Jan 14 by hubble | Ah, the old Bridge. It still haunts my dreams. I must have walked back and forth over it well over 10,000 times, on my way to school and back, on my way to the delights of West London. The current bridge was actually opened in 1887, designed by the famous Joseph Bazalgette, he of sewers fame. The orginal, the first suspension bridge over the Thames, was built in 1828, and designed by William Tierney Clark, who lived and died in Hammersmith and also designed the Széchenyi Chain Bridge across the Danube in Budapest, Hungary. The first bridge linking Buda and Pest... The eminent Mr DMM of this site and I went there recently to pay homage to the old thing. We must have crossed paths many times PunteR! |
Sorry for taking this further off topic, but re Tierney Clarke and his design for the Budapest Chain Bridge, his near identical prototype for this, built over a decade previously, can still be seen in Marlow: But to get us (tenuously) back on topic, may I congratulate the OP for having migrated back North of the river, by whichever bridge, for that is surely where all sensible London folk live! (Tin hat on, in anticipation of incoming) | | | |
Identity Crisis on 16:39 - Jan 14 with 1033 views | CroydonCaptJack |
Identity Crisis on 16:32 - Jan 14 by NewBee | Sorry for taking this further off topic, but re Tierney Clarke and his design for the Budapest Chain Bridge, his near identical prototype for this, built over a decade previously, can still be seen in Marlow: But to get us (tenuously) back on topic, may I congratulate the OP for having migrated back North of the river, by whichever bridge, for that is surely where all sensible London folk live! (Tin hat on, in anticipation of incoming) |
Marlow is a nice spot. I have crossed that bridge many times and stayed at that hotel a few as well (when a deal is on obviously!) | | | |
Identity Crisis on 17:08 - Jan 14 with 1002 views | BlackCrowe | Stick with it. I am neither afro caribbean not avian. | |
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Identity Crisis on 18:21 - Jan 14 with 926 views | MrSheen |
Identity Crisis on 19:41 - Jan 13 by PlanetHonneywood | Blimey, I've lived in both East Sheen and Pimlico. Neither hotbeds of Rfosi, but I was in a pub (The Constitution) in Pimlico one night watching football and a chap says something about QPR. 20 years later we're still in touch! |
Just spotted this. We started our Pimlico flat hunting way back in April and popped into The Constitution for a quick one. A family were celebrating their 9 year old daughter picking the winner of the Grand National. My kind of place! | | | |
Identity Crisis on 18:27 - Jan 14 with 921 views | MrSheen |
Identity Crisis on 20:55 - Jan 13 by PunteR | I know Sheen really well, got good childhood memories from that area. . My first school was east Sheen Primary when we lived in Barnes, we then moved to Richmond. My wife went to Sheen senior school. Palewell Park is where my dad taught me to ride a bike on my Raleigh Striker. Do you remember there used to be an old book shop opposite the library.? I used to get hold of the latest graphic novels and DC comics. I think its gone now sadly , but i loved popping in there. Also, there was a newsagents near East Sheen where it had a load of arcade machines.. Golden Axe, Street Fighter etc. Spent my school holidays in that shop. The old guy who worked there used to sell you individual fags for 50p. I've got happy memories along the Upper Richmond road, on the 33 bus, causing mischief, up to Wandsworth. Richmond, Sheen ,Mortlake, Barnes, Putney, Roehampton(born in Queen Mary's). Ive now lived longer in Bracknell, 26 years this year, but I miss my old manor. Sorry, just waffling.. lol |
I first arrived in Sheen in 1993 and the book shop had gone by then. Sheen Lane had a great Chinese-owned fish and chip shop, best haddock I’ve ever tasted and a lovely old Italian, both long gone, but the retired chip shop owners are still around. Now Chubb the butcher is closing, the last survivors from when we first arrived are Rosa and Leo in the Mamma Mia restaurant (archaic but lovely Italian) and Vest Man, the tall old roadie lookalike who wears a black vest in all weathers and hangs out in the Hare and Hounds. | | | |
Identity Crisis on 18:34 - Jan 14 with 901 views | Mick_S |
Identity Crisis on 16:32 - Jan 14 by NewBee | Sorry for taking this further off topic, but re Tierney Clarke and his design for the Budapest Chain Bridge, his near identical prototype for this, built over a decade previously, can still be seen in Marlow: But to get us (tenuously) back on topic, may I congratulate the OP for having migrated back North of the river, by whichever bridge, for that is surely where all sensible London folk live! (Tin hat on, in anticipation of incoming) |
Fantastic New Bee. I just didn’t recognise/realise that. We’ve been over both bridges many times, my wife is half Hungarian. This is some board. | |
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Identity Crisis on 18:39 - Jan 14 with 896 views | Watford_Ranger | Left Watford maybe a decade ago and the area entirely a couple of years ago. If I knew how to change my username I’d then realise I don’t care. | | | |
Identity Crisis on 18:48 - Jan 14 with 886 views | Boston |
Identity Crisis on 18:34 - Jan 14 by Mick_S | Fantastic New Bee. I just didn’t recognise/realise that. We’ve been over both bridges many times, my wife is half Hungarian. This is some board. |
Well if she isn't half Hungarian, buy her a sandwich or something! | |
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Identity Crisis on 18:57 - Jan 14 with 878 views | colinallcars |
Identity Crisis on 18:27 - Jan 14 by MrSheen | I first arrived in Sheen in 1993 and the book shop had gone by then. Sheen Lane had a great Chinese-owned fish and chip shop, best haddock I’ve ever tasted and a lovely old Italian, both long gone, but the retired chip shop owners are still around. Now Chubb the butcher is closing, the last survivors from when we first arrived are Rosa and Leo in the Mamma Mia restaurant (archaic but lovely Italian) and Vest Man, the tall old roadie lookalike who wears a black vest in all weathers and hangs out in the Hare and Hounds. |
I've had a few in the Hare&Hounds but sadly, Youngs ale is a shadow of its former self. Some pubs have gone - Charlie Butler, Jolly Milkman and that pub just along from the level crossing. I used to use the old Youngs pub next to Watney's brewery. Can't think of its name - had jazz nights which suited me. | | | |
Identity Crisis on 19:03 - Jan 14 with 867 views | joe90 | Whilst we’re on the subject of identity crisis - to confirm: I am not a puppet from a 60’s science fiction television series. | | | |
Identity Crisis on 19:18 - Jan 14 with 834 views | MrSheen |
Identity Crisis on 18:57 - Jan 14 by colinallcars | I've had a few in the Hare&Hounds but sadly, Youngs ale is a shadow of its former self. Some pubs have gone - Charlie Butler, Jolly Milkman and that pub just along from the level crossing. I used to use the old Youngs pub next to Watney's brewery. Can't think of its name - had jazz nights which suited me. |
The Jolly Gardeners? Still holding on mysteriously, but there's not much jolly about it. Painfully unwell looking old boys complaining about their bad luck on the horses. | | | |
Identity Crisis on 19:19 - Jan 14 with 823 views | derbyhoop | No longer live in Derby, not even the UK. | |
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Identity Crisis on 19:24 - Jan 14 with 820 views | colinallcars |
Identity Crisis on 19:18 - Jan 14 by MrSheen | The Jolly Gardeners? Still holding on mysteriously, but there's not much jolly about it. Painfully unwell looking old boys complaining about their bad luck on the horses. |
You've seen me in there ! | | | |
Identity Crisis on 19:50 - Jan 14 with 785 views | Dorse | Haven't lived in Dorset since 2021. Still Dorse. Also, can't be arsed to change the avatar. | |
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Identity Crisis on 20:19 - Jan 14 with 747 views | R_from_afar | I'm not currently based very far from Loftus Road, I'm only in Bracknell I used to post on the QPRnet forum, as Midlands Hoop, and when I joined this forum - a dark, dark day for you all - I intended to use the same moniker. Unfortunately, but characteristically, I messed up my registration and needed to choose another name. I liked the rhyming nature of RfromAfar and now here we are | |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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Identity Crisis on 20:24 - Jan 14 with 741 views | NewYorkRanger | I am no longer based in New York. But I was when I registered on here, and cannot be bothered to change it. | |
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Identity Crisis on 20:28 - Jan 14 with 732 views | PunteR |
Identity Crisis on 18:57 - Jan 14 by colinallcars | I've had a few in the Hare&Hounds but sadly, Youngs ale is a shadow of its former self. Some pubs have gone - Charlie Butler, Jolly Milkman and that pub just along from the level crossing. I used to use the old Youngs pub next to Watney's brewery. Can't think of its name - had jazz nights which suited me. |
Jolly Gardeners. | |
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Identity Crisis on 20:34 - Jan 14 with 710 views | queensparker |
Identity Crisis on 20:28 - Jan 14 by PunteR | Jolly Gardeners. |
Is that the same pub that had the Putney Jolly Gardeners football team? They were handy back in the day, had some tasty clashes with them in my amateur football days | | | |
Identity Crisis on 20:36 - Jan 14 with 703 views | PunteR |
Identity Crisis on 19:18 - Jan 14 by MrSheen | The Jolly Gardeners? Still holding on mysteriously, but there's not much jolly about it. Painfully unwell looking old boys complaining about their bad luck on the horses. |
Yeh, was always a few old boys in there. Me and a mate done a Hard House night there once, back in the 90s. That went down well with the locals'... lol | |
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Identity Crisis on 21:36 - Jan 14 with 656 views | PunteR |
Identity Crisis on 20:34 - Jan 14 by queensparker | Is that the same pub that had the Putney Jolly Gardeners football team? They were handy back in the day, had some tasty clashes with them in my amateur football days |
No mate, this one in Mortlake. | |
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Identity Crisis on 22:05 - Jan 14 with 606 views | Beckenhamhoop | I am no longer in Beckenham having moved further out into Gods country (Kent) three years ago. I have just about got used to how much friendlier people are outside London. | | | |
Identity Crisis on 22:26 - Jan 14 with 569 views | Paddyhoops | Born in Chiswick 60 years ago. Brought back to Ireland in 69 . Returned in 87 . I’m I even a paddy anymore? | | | |
Identity Crisis on 22:48 - Jan 14 with 538 views | FredManRave | My name is not Fred and I haven't been to a Rave in approximately 30 years. However, I am a man and identify as he, him and/or his. But I'm keeping my use name as the up to date version doesn't bear thinking about! | |
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Identity Crisis on 08:56 - Jan 15 with 375 views | FDC | I am not, nor have I ever been, a fish driving a car, and I don't even take psychedelic drugs all that frequently anymore 🤷♂️ | | | |
Identity Crisis on 09:26 - Jan 15 with 334 views | Bluce_Ree | I've not lived in my home town for 23 years but I've still got the first bit of the postcode in my email address and PlayStation ID. | |
| Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. |
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