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REPORTER, WALKING UP REGENT ST: One can only imagine what Londoners are thinking now
LONDONERS: why is this prick walking SO SLOWLY
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REPORTER, WALKING UP REGENT ST: One can only imagine what Londoners are thinking now
LONDONERS: why is this prick walking SO SLOWLY
There was mention of a US TV news crew doing a piece to camera, all "This is a city under siege, no one knows where the next strike will happen" when into shot wanders a lad strolling by eating a bag of chips. :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
My overriding memory of atrocities in London was that everyone just went to the pub. wd the pubQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Pretty much my memory of 7/7Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
There are two types of attacks on London
One that happens and you go the pub
One that happens while you are already there
There was a bomb scare at Westminister once when we were walking in the door having just returned from lunch. D being the B P of V, we turned on our heels and returned whence we had come.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Well done, the pub, indeed.
Much better in the old days before social media and the likes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
I remember the Bishopsgate bomb and only finding out about it quite late the day after.
looooooooooooooooool!Quote:
Originally Posted by luis anaconda
One of those "Where were you?" questions:Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Which pub were you in when the 1996 Docklands Bomb went off? It was a friday, after all, and I remember hearing/feeling it from the basement of Dirty Dick's by Liverpool Street Station.
I was doing my journalism course at the time so down in Mitcham - in the Goat, not the most salubrious of venues but regular haunt of Kevin "Tosh from the Bill" LloydQuote:
Originally Posted by Ash
I was living in Rotherhithe and we thought someone was moaning about the volume of Pete Tong's essential selection and banging on the door.....anyway, we went to the pub downstairsQuote:
Originally Posted by Ash
The Hatchet - next to Mansion House. It was my work local at the time.
Just walked passed it the other day and it's some poxy gastro thingy which ends in 'Dining Rooms'. :-(
WHAT!!! That was my local when i worked for a broking houseQuote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
I was living in Stepney back then. Our windows felt like they were going to be blown in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Stepney - the capital of East London. I gather you don't have fond memories, but it has a fine old church, and in the nursery rhyme. Some very elegant old Georgian houses too on Stepney Green. And a city farm!Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige