E. L. Sowerbutts 20ft. London Roach Pole.

[Duckett]

Meanwhile, here in Stratford E15, we pronounce it “endofthesixtyninebusroute”

Your next starter for 10, Plaistow.

[Stathamender]

It's also pronounced 'Wulffamstah'.

It,s pronounced wawl·thuhm·stow

Well, my brother lived there for 37 years and that's the way he said it.

Ah but was he originally from there ? Doesn't sound like it to me ......
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But that was where he learned to say the word.

[YogiSally]

Edward Sowerbutts was my step grandfather, and the family moved from Walthamstow to Epping, Essex where he continued to make the rods in the garden shed. His daughter Jane, still resides at the family home and does not have a single rod to remember her father by.

They had a very meager existence and the family lived on the sale of his rods and Jane's job as a typist at Epping Council offices, and she has now retired.

Hopefully, one day I will have enough money to buy one of her fathers rods to give her.

Tight lines!

Yogi Sally Ann Slight

[Pallenpool]

Wonderful, I am sure you will enjoy the TFF. Welcome aboard.

[Fredline]

Meanwhile, here in Stratford E15, we pronounce it “endofthesixtyninebusroute”

Your next starter for 10, Plaistow.

That would be "Plarstoe". I lived there for the first 20 years of my life.

[Duckett]

Meanwhile, here in Stratford E15, we pronounce it “endofthesixtyninebusroute”

Your next starter for 10, Plaistow.

That would be "Plarstoe". I lived there for the first 20 years of my life.

Correct John! Having been here since 1988, on the old Ammersmiff & Citi Line trains with the automated announcements that said “Plaistowe” when terminating on the spare platform, I was one of those who regularly grumbled, “Plarstoe! You ignorant pile of junk!”. Of course, we aren’t helped by the fact that each “Plaistow” in England seems to pronounce it differently! Sir Hugh de Plaiz has a to answer for!

Phil

[Moley]

Boleyn is the family name on the distaff side and we all came from Stratford. Plus the name is pronounced Bullen and not the hoity toity silly way most say it.

Come WW2 they moved out to the country.....Romford to avoid the blitz but still got most of the roof blown off when a doodle bug dropped on their new street.

Fatty was born not long after.......

The rest as they say is history and another story.

As ever,....

Moley

[Tengisgol]

Boleyn is the family name on the distaff side and we all came from Stratford. Plus the name is pronounced Bullen and not the hoity toity silly way most say it.

Come WW2 they moved out to the country.....Romford to avoid the blitz but still got most of the roof blown off when a doodle bug dropped on their new street.

Fatty was born not long after.......

The rest as they say is history and another story.

As ever,....

Moley

Similar story here. My Mother was in Cann Hall Road in Leytonstone during the war, her father working on the railway. My Dad was in Barkingside. They too moved to Romford in the fifties when they were married, where I grew up, and then I moved further up the A12 in the nineties to Chelmsford.

[Ian.R.McDonald]

I remember 4 or 5 people used cane roach poles at the Eagle Pond Snaresbrook. Swinging 8oz roach to hand showed both how much better stocks were then and the view that poles were there to do a job and not be a work of art. But they do look good now!

Are there many east enders who can afford to live in town nowadays?. My dad was told that he would never get the £1800 he paid in 53 for our house in Wanstead back. Mum and Dad were in Suffolk when Warwick Road semis passed £1,000,000. And now some starting with 2! Madness!

[Ian.R.McDonald]

Meanwhile, here in Stratford E15, we pronounce it “endofthesixtyninebusroute”

Your next starter for 10, Plaistow.

I used to drink and listen to bands at The Bridge in Plaistow,. As a country bumpkin now I would have the car doors locked as we avoided stopping on the A13 nowadays ( sure Plaistow is still nice but I am the only person in my lane without a tractor!)