Happy New Year! Alice sent me the following, and suggested that I might forward it to the Romford History mailing list. Best Regards, Phil ... From: Mark...
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Phil Steer
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Jan 2, 2000 3:56 pm
My reply to Alice's e-mail, which might be of general interest. Best Regards, Phil ... From: Phil Steer [mailto:phil.steer@...] Sent: 02 January...
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Shekeda@xxxxxxxxx.xxx...
Jan 3, 2000 6:13 am
Hi all, This is Sue Hayes, I've been on the list for quite a while but have got way behind with my email. One reason I haven't posted anything is that I just ...
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Julie Hidden
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Jan 3, 2000 8:10 am
Hi Sue I use to be engaged to a guy called Carl Anderson who lived in Laburnum Walk in Elm Park. Do you know of him? That was in about 1969. Regards Julie...
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Jan 3, 2000 12:46 pm
... Walk in ... Hi Julie, No, I don't know him - but I was only 14-1/2 when I left EP in '64. To make matters worse, Maylands was a girl's school so not much...
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Michael Merry
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Jan 4, 2000 1:23 pm
Hi! My name is Michael James Merry. I lived in Chadwell Heath from 1940 through 1958 when I left the UK and went to live in Latin America and later in the USA....
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Sheila West
rainbird@xxxxxxx.xx.xxx
Jan 12, 2000 3:05 pm
Hello to you all and thank you Phil for the warm welcome. My name is Sheila (maiden name Edghill) and I lived in Romford from the age of 2yrs (1938) until I...
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Julie Hidden
julie@xxxxx.xxx.xxx
Jan 13, 2000 11:56 am
Hi Sheila My name is Julie Hidden and I was born in 1950. I attended Clockhouse Lane Infants & Junior Schools. That was between 1955 and 1961. I then went to...
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Phil Steer
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Jan 14, 2000 3:44 pm
Hello Sheila, Very many thanks for your introduction and memories of Romford. I wish I was able to join in such recollections, but being a relative newcomer...
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dgmaltby
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Jan 15, 2000 1:07 am
To recap on this feature that we played with a long time ago... During the World Club Championship 3rd & 4th place play off, commentator John Champion cracked...
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Phil Steer
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Jan 15, 2000 11:45 am
... Unfortunately, I think not. According to his 1982 autobiography (imaginatively entitled "Trevor Brooking"!) he was born at Barking Maternity Hospital on 2...
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J A Smith
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Jan 16, 2000 12:33 am
For a time, possibly during the 60s and 70s, while Trevor Brooking lived in Emerson Park, his parents lived in Ferguson Avenue, Gidea Park. I believe his...
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dgmaltby
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Jan 16, 2000 12:58 am
... in ... A-ha! Does just "living in Romford/Hornchurch" qualify some-one, Phil, or do they have to be born there? "Trev" did seem to be well informed about...
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Douglas Mackay
mackay@...
Jan 19, 2000 5:55 am
Hi Folks, Re: note from David Thursday 18th Nov 1999. When I was in Hornchurch about three years ago there was still standing an air raid shelter, besidethe...
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dgmaltby
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Jan 19, 2000 11:47 am
... I'd forgotten all about that one! At a VERY early age - certainly younger than five as I went to Infants school early - I used to pass that thing, one of...
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andrew@...
Jan 26, 2000 10:43 pm
I am new to this group but have lived in Romford for several years and am contemplating a move to the St Leonard's estate of new houses in Hornchurch. I...
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Phil Steer
phil.steer@...
Feb 2, 2000 8:00 pm
Many months ago David wrote to tell us that Romford Football Club had appeared in the 1949 Amateur Cup Final at Wembley. Well, my "Romford Now & Then" Web...
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Michael Merry
michaeljamesmerry@...
Feb 2, 2000 8:15 pm
Phil: When I lived in UK, (i've been gone for 42 years now) I used to go and watch Romford quite a bit. In the 50's their huge rival every year it seemed, was ...
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Phil Steer
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Feb 2, 2000 9:33 pm
Hi Mike, Many thanks for your memories of watching Romford. ... Guess what? On their way to Wembley in 1949 Romford played Crook Colliery Welfare in the...
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Evan & Correne James
BCE@...
Feb 3, 2000 9:05 am
... A couple of years ago I worked with a guy called Cliff Hayden who reckoned he played in that final. I havn't seen him since then though. Evan James...
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Phil Steer
phil.steer@...
Feb 3, 2000 9:20 am
Hi Evan, ... Thanks for your contribution. Unfortunately, there's no one of that name mentioned in the Cup Final programme, either for Romford or for Bromley....
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Michael Merry
michaeljamesmerry@...
Feb 3, 2000 10:57 am
Phil: Thanks for the good news about Romford beating Crook in 49. I watched them during the 50's and they were not so lucky. I remember the old ground all ...
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Phil Steer
phil.steer@...
Feb 3, 2000 11:22 am
Hi Mike, ... According to the Cup Final programme William (Bill) Seddon was Romford's trainer (he's pictured standing on the left of the team photo). The ...
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J A Smith
j_alan_smith@...
Feb 3, 2000 11:59 am
I attended Ardleigh Green Primary School, 1947-51. A friend in my class was David Patterson, whose father, George Patterson, played for Romford in the 1949...
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Phil Steer
phil.steer@...
Feb 3, 2000 1:40 pm
Hi Alan, ... Many thanks for the contribution. The "pen picture" of George Patterson confirms your memories: "George Patterson, Outside Left Age 40. Born in...
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Michael Merry
michaeljamesmerry@...
Feb 3, 2000 2:11 pm
Phil: Old Libertians was indeed an organization of ex Royal Liberty pupils. The Libertians had a ground along the Eastern Avenue almost opposite the County...
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dgmaltby
dgmaltby@...
Feb 3, 2000 3:29 pm
... SUBS? In 1949? Nay lad, men were men in them days! If you had a player injured you played wi' ten men! I'll check through my video of the event! Cheers, ...
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Phil Steer
phil.steer@...
Feb 3, 2000 3:45 pm
Hi David, ... I stand corrected! ... I did wonder how you knew so much about it! Looking back at your earlier messages I see that you even knew the crowd...
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J A Smith
j_alan_smith@...
Feb 3, 2000 3:54 pm
For the record, I was at the Royal Liberty School in the same year as Mike Merry and Dave Seddon and saw Dave at some of the recent Old Libertians' reunions. ...
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Phil Steer
phil.steer@...
Feb 9, 2000 8:14 pm
Does anyone by any chance remember Havering Court swimming pool? It was situated on the right-hand side of Havering Road, on the way up to ...
