How many miles.......

[Daniel cain 44,956]

5 minutes ago, greg64 said:

the prince of Wales plume is different though even the words on it  ICH DIEN mean i serve

Which happened to be stolen from the Duke of Cornwall's coat of arms(the actual true heir to the British throne)not these stray dogs the Windsor's

The modern Royal family have no right to rule here...they will never be my King/Queen

[greg64 2,801]

1 minute ago, Daniel cain said:

Which happened to be stolen from the Duke of Cornwall's coat of arms(the actual true heir to the British throne)not these stray dogs the Windsor's

The modern Royal family have no right to rule here...they will never be my King/Queen

think the three feathers was the black princes flag son of Edward the third and heir to the British throne 

[Daniel cain 44,956]

Just now, greg64 said:

think the three feathers was the black princes flag son of Edward the third and heir to the British throne 

The Black Prince

[jukel123 7,957]

A mate of mine sent me a class photo I hadn't seen for 50 years. I think it was a passing out  ceremony for something to do with the Catholic Church. A lot of the lads on the photo are dead, did jail time or had horrible lives.The lad on the left was a brilliant footballer and scrapper. He had a spell as a pro boxer. The church bought us football boots and shirts. And the teacher told us how to play. In my case, Mark, Tackle .Head Pass. Nothing else. Lol. The priest used to come and give us pep talks. " You are representing your school, your religion etc. We used to go out fired up.  I was well into Catholicism  as a kid. Until I learned they enslaved young unmarried mothers and sold their babies etc, etc. No time for any religion now.Although tbf, the priest in the middle was a decent , gentle man.

 

Edited September 17 by jukel123

[mushroom 12,827]

4 hours ago, Borr said:

As 'el elano Espanol ' so eloquently put it no lol. The wife used to speak Spanish and German and obviously Romanian and English. My kids were around it young and know lots of words so I'm sure the lingo part of the brain developed and they'll learn languages, I worked in UK most of the time we were based in Romania, I came close to learning french but without learning the language properly and being able to converse in past tense my conversation skill were not up to par plus they spoke nasal patois french which added an element to it. I may have another go at some point. The wife's father is Hungarian and her grandfather Ukrainian and she learnt English watching TV as a kid. My mother used to know Malay as a kid and speaks fluent french. I am envious of people with language skills , and fairplay to mushroom his Spanish is very good, English not so much .

That would be El Enano  

[Greyman 27,987]

8 hours ago, greg64 said:

y Ddraig Goch surley ,not the 3 feathers of an English prince and on Owain Glyndwr day tut tut

Reported for foul language 

[Greyman 27,987]

6 hours ago, jukel123 said:

A mate of mine sent me a class photo I hadn't seen for 50 years. I think it was a passing out  ceremony for something to do with the Catholic Church. A lot of the lads on the photo are dead, did jail time or had horrible lives.The lad on the left was a brilliant footballer and scrapper. He had a spell as a pro boxer. The church bought us football boots and shirts. And the teacher told us how to play. In my case, Mark, Tackle .Head Pass. Nothing else. Lol. The priest used to come and give us pep talks. " You are representing your school, your religion etc. We used to go out fired up.  I was well into Catholicism  as a kid. Until I learned they enslaved young unmarried mothers and sold their babies etc, etc. No time for any religion now.Although tbf, the priest in the middle was a decent , gentle man.

 

You mean he used lube lol

[jukel123 7,957]

1 minute ago, Greyman said:

You mean he used lube lol

Got it in one.lol

[gnasher16 30,024]

On 16/09/2024 at 08:32, WILF said:

I watched a good documentary on YouTube about people from your manor mate, it was called something like “The last Eastender” or something like that…..it was about that very thing, family's who had lived down the same street forever and the daughter was moving away, another was an old girl and there was a bus driver.

The funniest was a paki who could see Tate & Lyle out of his front room window saying how all the old family’s had moved out and the area was changing since traditional east Enders like his family had come to live there ! Lol 

No pride these people.....flee from a shithole country,recreate all the squalor they left behind,then book themselves as " traditional " once enough years have passed.....silly c**t clearly isnt aware theres not a single part of Silvertown that the Tate & Lyle refinery cant be seen from !.......City Airport and Tate & Lyle still the two biggest employers in Newham.

I'll keep an eye out for that documentary 

[jukel123 7,957]

The above photo was taken over 60 years ago. Seems like yesterday. Time seems to go quicker and quicker.

[eastcoast 4,085]

On 15/09/2024 at 21:17, mackem said:

Was your grandfather in the chindits? I have seen photos of partition, a railway platform in either Lahore or Amritsar carpeted in corpses, what a time to have lived through.Very interesting Borr, thank you. 

Way off topic but the Chindits always strike a note with me. An old chap that I became friends with, Arthur "Mick" Casey. He was one of them. I wrote about him on here a few years ago but got shot down as I referenced USA WW11 special forces, apparently the USA special forces had no involvement in Burma?

Long story short an old chap used walk his Jack Russell on land where we had our gardens and there was still a few rabbits and hares etc. Everyone tried to avoid him because he could talk the hind legs off. Always about the land we were on, he lived there before it became a council estate and a Major English owned it. Now Leam Lane. I quite enjoyed the history. 

Anyway, 1 day the Japanese came into our conversation and he got annoyed with me. Then told me about his time as a Chindit.

Next day he turned up at the door. Photographs of him in the Burma campaign. Mostly programmes from his and his wife's invites to the USA 101 society that they invited and paid for veterans to attend their annual gatherings. 

Unfortunately I have no proof, as few years after his death his daughter knocked on the door and demanded everything back. There was no need to demand, I had no idea he had a daughter or any family other than the old Jack Russell bitch. She didn't demand the Jack Russell back. 

From what I remember he joined DLI, at start of the war, got captured in fall of Singapore, escaped POW camp, some how joined up with Royal Gloucester's, got injured and returned home, then after getting back to fitness volunteered to join the Chindits. Then done some damage to the Japanese. 

The Americans called him "Mick" on account of his Geordie accent. 

[gnasher16 30,024]

On 16/09/2024 at 11:14, mC HULL said:

i agree with you wilf as kids were older been out the way can’t be bad but 4-5-6-7-8-9-10 been around others intergrating playing about does them the world of good i think pubs all closed round me now lol 

i get it i’ve had friends stabbed killed 

i think you seen it change a lot worse we’re you was to a lot of people about the country mate 

Personally i think theres a lot to be said for kids growing up in a City like London.....we talk like its gone downhill but it was always a shithole but its a shithole that teaches you a lot about yourself and about life in general,it puts you into situations where you find out if you can depend on yourself....stick a kid raised in rural Berkshire onto a rough London council estate and he wont be street savvy enough to cope whereas the council kid into a rural area will probably flourish.....my belief is that id rather have certain life skills even if i no longer need them....than need them and not have them.

[jukel123 7,957]

15 minutes ago, eastcoast said:

Way off topic but the Chindits always strike a note with me. An old chap that I became friends with, Arthur "Mick" Casey. He was one of them. I wrote about him on here a few years ago but got shot down as I referenced USA WW11 special forces, apparently the USA special forces had no involvement in Burma?

Long story short an old chap used walk his Jack Russell on land where we had our gardens and there was still a few rabbits and hares etc. Everyone tried to avoid him because he could talk the hind legs off. Always about the land we were on, he lived there before it became a council estate and a Major English owned it. Now Leam Lane. I quite enjoyed the history. 

Anyway, 1 day the Japanese came into our conversation and he got annoyed with me. Then told me about his time as a Chindit.

Next day he turned up at the door. Photographs of him in the Burma campaign. Mostly programmes from his and his wife's invites to the USA 101 society that they invited and paid for veterans to attend their annual gatherings. 

Unfortunately I have no proof, as few years after his death his daughter knocked on the door and demanded everything back. There was no need to demand, I had no idea he had a daughter or any family other than the old Jack Russell bitch. She didn't demand the Jack Russell back. 

From what I remember he joined DLI, at start of the war, got captured in fall of Singapore, escaped POW camp, some how joined up with Royal Gloucester's, got injured and returned home, then after getting back to fitness volunteered to join the Chindits. Then done some damage to the Japanese. 

The Americans called him "Mick" on account of his Geordie accent. 

Mick? Geordie? Ironic?

[jukel123 7,957]

2 minutes ago, gnasher16 said:

Personally i think theres a lot to be said for kids growing up in a City like London.....we talk like its gone downhill but it was always a shithole but its a shithole that teaches you a lot about yourself and about life in general,it puts you into situations where you find out if you can depend on yourself....stick a kid raised in rural Berkshire onto a rough London council estate and he wont be street savvy enough to cope whereas the council kid into a rural area will probably flourish.....my belief is that id rather have certain life skills even if i no longer need them....than need them and not have them.

I like to think I can hold my own in lots of different situations. But the same isn't true for those who've been protected from the world. I'd like to see certain people survive in the 'real' world. If you're a graduate of the university of hard knocks, it can be a big advantage. Plus you know the real value of things.

[eastcoast 4,085]

10 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

Mick? Geordie? Ironic?

Yes. I have searched for those documents but to date unsuccessful. They must be out there somewhere. 101 Society. The Americans used to have a yearly convention for the veterans. The British not so much.