TRUE LONDONERS - can we use such a phrase about our families...?

[daveanpat]

An other lad from Walthamstow here born in Thorpe coombe lived in corbett road went to wood st primary school and I remember walking the few yards to school with a hankie of my face because of the smogg!  Them we moved to sinnott road and went to st andrews school and then moved up to William elliot whitingham school until I was 13 and we moved to Billericay thus ending my bit of being a londoner.
 Mum was born in the Rising sun pub in  woodford  new road, but dad was a lincolnshire lad.
       So am I a Londoner or an Essex boy?

David

[vivwill]

Ive been wondering about this and here seems to be the appropriate place to ask a question - my mother always said, with a great deal of pride I might add,  that she was "born within the sound of Bow Bells".

Could you please enlighten me as to what this meant - I'm guessing the bells were a particular church (??) and was there a particular reason that she should be proud of the fact or was she just patriotic?

thanks, Viv   

[Berlin-Bob]

Hi Viv,

see Reply #9 here on the topic

Bob

[Jean McGurn]

Ah! Bob, so you are a barrow boy too.

Shouldn't that be a Costermonger? 

Jean

[Hazel17]

Monique - the marriage is Charles Chance and Jane Sheppard. I haven't explored them as much as I could . That is the next branch of my family that I am going to dig into when I have the time, I'm sure there's more that I can find about them. If I still get dead ends I shall put up a thread though.

[IgorStrav]

In response to DaveanPat, I know the Rising Sun on the Woodford Road very well.  Lots of traffic on the front, now, but the back still faces on Epping Forest.  It's a very beautiful bit of London, no wonder they used to do chara trips from the East End out to the "country" there.

 

[Berlin-Bob]

Ah! Bob, so you are a barrow boy too.

Shouldn't that be a Costermonger? 

Jean

Ooooh, posh, aren't we !   Actually, it should barra' boy 

Funnily enough, among ourselves, a lot of us "barra' boys" used to use cockney rhyming slang, even in Wales.  Spiced with various yiddish phrases borrowed from the jewish traders, it was a almost a seperate language

Bob

[geniecolgan]

Ah! Bob, so you are a barrow boy too.

Shouldn't that be a Costermonger? 

Jean

Not so Jean.
Strictly speaking, a costermunger sold apples. A wider meaning, they sold fruit & veg 

The other barra' boys sold all kinds of stuff, clobber, cat meat, crockery etc... 

I know The Rising Sun, had a bit of slap n tickle out the back after a couple of shandys 

[Lydart]

I know The Rising Sun, had a bit of slap n tickle out the back after a couple of shandys   

ALMOST TOO MUCH INFORMATION Genie ...  ... but interesting, nonetheless !!