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  1. Mike Barry #

    I have always been amazed at the girth and quality of your web site (how much time do you spend on Rick stuff these day?) and was interested to learn of your Catford origins in a recent response to me.
    I have checked out your travelogue; it beats most commercial offerings. In particular, I have done a couple of business trips to Chicago and a holiday visit with my wife and if we ever return we will look up some of the districts you provide such good stuff on, as well as checking out your experiences on other places we have been.
    I finally got around to looking at your ‘About Me’(retirement permits such indulgences) and was flabbergasted to find that Sandhurst School now functions as a petrol station; some time since I have revisited the Torridon Road area.
    It then suddenly occurred to me that in the heyday of my football career when I appeared for Torridon Rd school and played for Lewisham borough, that we never did play Sandhurst School. Why was that? You didn’t play rugby or chicken out of playing us hardnuts around the corner??!!
    Keep the posts going, I read most blogs but apart from Ken’s efforts on our CAFCPICKS, yours and NYA make are the best read and most fun.
    Cheers

    August 18, 2010
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  2. chicagoaddick #

    Thank you for you kind comments Mike. Honestly I have no idea how I get time to write the blog either. Something is sacrificed no doubt – reading books, calling friends, decent telly. I don’t know.

    Fear not, Sandhurst Road is still there and as I understand it’s still going strong. As is Torridon. The school that is now a petrol station is Catford Boys on Brownhill Road.

    Sandhurst did have a footie team, but I believe we were in the Lewisham Premiership, whilst Torridon was in Div 3 :-)

    August 18, 2010
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