Eastside surge
1:57 Sat Aug 15
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Used to spend entire Saturdays in Romford, get the 103 bus from Dagenham, into McDonald's which would be rammed as it was the only one around and then just get up to mischief for the rest of the day, nothing serious just kids being kids.
Always popped in ted ditchburns sport's shop aswell to look at sport's equipment I couldn't afford!
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Toe Rag
11:31 Sat Aug 15
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Anyone ever go in the farmhouse pub in Rush Green road down towards the Chase?
Went in there from college, had 3 pints one lunchtime then over the chase to skin up, had a whitey and spewed my ring piece up.
Ah, the carefree days of youth!
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Mike Oxsaw
11:14 Sat Aug 15
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Got fond memories of Romford before the ring road was built - but not before the clearance for it started.
There was a pub on Mawney Road - The Woolpack, if memory serves me right - that I recall going though it's last rites (passing it in a milk float every third Saturday & Sunday of the month). It just looked "lost" sat there, empty, next to what was to become St. Edwards Way.
I'm sure I recall the new library opening, but have no recollection of the old. Both Western & Eastern roads were full of rather large well-to-do semis that were still, for the most part, single occupancy and the whole character changed the minute one was over the crossroads where Western Road and Carlton Road met Junction Road.
I recall the YMCA being built on Rush Green Road but never ever knew about the failed attempt to build a canal that would have passed on it's eastern flank - presumably terminating at the brewery.
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Dan M
10:34 Sat Aug 15
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Grew up in Chadwell Heath so it was Ilford most of the time and Romford for a "bigger" shop.
Happy days being a nerdy kid in Beatties as well as the computer games shop on the second roundabout (the one between the Gates of Romford and Dolphin roundabouts). Choosing another military plane kit and then checking the giant rack of Humbrol paints. The games shop had a permastench of undeodorised teenage boy (that I'm sure I added to) that still haunts me whether I drive past now.
Another childhood memory is seeing the Thriller video in the AV dept in Debenhams when it was banned from UK telly. Mum had a store card (which eventually ran out of control) so we always seemed to be there. Back then it was a proper Grace Bros that you could get lost in, with even a travel agent in the top floor (suddenly remembered that Ilford WH Smith had one of those too). I remember feeling like a bit of my childhood had been excised when they remodelled it as a bright airy "new" Debenhams in the 90s.
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jfk
5:44 Sat Aug 15
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Always remember me auntie carols cousins kids coming down to my nan and grandads in Dagenham for Sunday lunch from Stepney and being amazed at my grandfather growing runner beans along he's chain link fence.
My uncle Dave and all the relatives going to the fiddlers pre Sunday lunch and coming back pissed up which was ptobably two thirtyish then,The blokes having"first sittings" for lunch and women and kids second sittings which was always a more civilised affair.
Then a sing song which would start with bubbles.
How my nan managed to put on a spread for 30 odd in a council house in Dagenham I'll never know..
My early memories of Stepney on return Sunday's (72 ish) journeys was corrugated iron everywhere and shitloads of shellfish which to this day I fucking love.
Romford incidently was well posh then.
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gank
3:54 Sat Aug 15
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I saw the title of this thread and groaned, thinking 'Romford has been a complete dump for 40 years'
I read the opening post and it described exactly that.
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gph
3:04 Sat Aug 15
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It always annoyed me when I said "Rumford" (like most of the natives) and got corrected by outsiders.
Of course, that battle is long lost, and the vast majority of the residents now say "Romford".
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easthammer
2:59 Sat Aug 15
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Lots of memories of Romford starting with bus journies from East Ham as a kid to visit rich relatives. and trips to Raphael's Park. Always noted that it was Rumford Market. Also got taken as a kid to see Essex play cricket at Gallows Corner a big day out and trip on a Green Line Bus.
From mid 60s through to 70s when I was living in Chadwell Heath and then Hornchurch played football for Orchard a Sunday Team that was based in Cottons Park Romford. We just a team of mates but were half-decent some of us played at a decent level on at a Saturday. One or two had been juniors at pro-teams including West Ham. One lad had kept Rodney Marsh out of the Fulham Youth side. In 1970 we won the Essex Junior Cup (Big Competition back then)
I also played at Brooklands in a floodlit game against Romford when they were in the Southern League. Although this was for a Representative Side against Romford to celebrate the Centenary of Romford Carnival of all things. Drew a decent crowd though ( must have been free entry). Marked a Romford FC legend Roy Sanders who was very swift, I did alright but we lost 3-1 kept the crowd happy.
Used to drink in the Crown near the Dog Track after games on a Sunday, sometimes The Sun and when we beat The Prince Albert which had a side which also shared Cottons park with us we would drink there just to rub it in.
Back then there was no real nightlife in Romford, Had some good nights at the Speedway and the Dogs though and the Golden Curry stayed open late.
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jfk
2:31 Sat Aug 15
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Haha ,Ted.
Memories/smells of The Inde cope brewery will never t leave me.
There used to be stronger days(brewing I suppose
Hrt
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jfk
2:12 Sat Aug 15
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I was born in Oldchurch and largely grew up in Romford.
Still in touch with school mates from all walks of life.
Romfords not the best but certainly not as bad as portrayed on here nowadays.
Of course loads of posters on here reside in the fucking Cotswolds or a village in the New Forest Hampshire way?...
Snotty bullshitters.!
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bruuuno
12:39 Sat Aug 15
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We tried to break into the morgue over oldchurch when I was about 15 and got a legger off the old bill. Now that’s a phrase I haven’t used for about 20years
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Too Much Too Young
10:52 Fri Aug 14
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Was born in Old church., supposedly in a porta cabin ovedlow to the hospital.
Came out blowing bubbles both ends and your misery is set i stone for life.
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lincslink
8:47 Fri Aug 14
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We went to Romford speedway in the late 60’s early 70’s.
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gph
8:46 Fri Aug 14
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When I worked in the brewery for a couple of summer jobs, most of the production was the atrocious Double Diamond.
I was in the bottling side, and when the lines went down, we had the job of collecting ullage from out-of-date bottles.
We opened them, and then poured them through a funnel with a built-in sieve, which caught the bacterial mats which had grown inside some of the bottles, into a barrel. The contents of these barrels was then poured into the fermenting Double Diamond.
I think the theory was that it didn't matter as it was all pasteurised.
Ironically, someone's recently recreated Double Diamond as a real beer (and presumably without the ullage), and it's quite good.
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ted fenton
8:34 Fri Aug 14
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Used to love Romford as kid and adult but the smell of hops & yeast from the Ind Coope brewery used to make me heave :-(
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Iron Duke
7:47 Fri Aug 14
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The Record and Tape Exchange. I spent many an hour thumbing through old LPs in there.
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charleyfarley
8:40 Thu Aug 13
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North St Romford BT building, was doing a H&S check as Union safety officer, parked up walked over the road to grab a bacon sandwich came back, half way through the inspection the manager doing the inspection with me said 'Here is a good example, they are told not to park in front of an exit, there is a massive sign, EMERGENCY EXIT NO PARKING and yet these idiots still park there'
Sad to have to say, it was my car.
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Toe Rag
8:06 Thu Aug 13
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Ind Coop made a few barrels of beer there down the years as well.
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Joe C
7:59 Thu Aug 13
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Richard. Fucking. Madeley
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