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Freddie Alliston’s playground – growing up in post-war Bermondsey and Rotherhithe
Cornbury Road was a street of mice-ridden houses scarred by Luftwaffe bombing when Freddie Alliston was born there in 1950,...
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Peckham bus conductor was a 1960s Olympic weightlifter and set a British record
A Peckham bus driver, who came to London from the Caribbean in the '50s, was a weightlifting champion and set...
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Frankie Lucas: The Golden Boy of South London
Frankie Lucas was a middleweight boxer from Croydon who fought during the 1970s. He had come to the UK from...
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Joey Essex follows his childhood footsteps back to Bermondsey
Bermondsey-born reality TV star Joey Essex has taken viewers on a trip around SE16 in an emotional documentary about growing...
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Reunion of Bermondsey school ‘with no rules’ – Loïs and the Lamp Post Kids
In 1972 teacher Lois Acton started an ambitious and radical free school in Bermondsey that was outside of mainstream education...
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William Pullum: Camberwell’s ‘wizard of weightlifting’
He overcame a childhood blighted by illness, suffering from tuberculosis, meningitis, peritonitis and tubercular disease of the lower jaw
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Will and Lil’s ‘everyday’ in Dulwich during the war
Behind a normal front door on an average street in 1930s Dulwich lived the Eaglen family. But the 'ordinary' lives...
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