Allan Rooke · 1940s · An air raid shelter
Held upside down in the shelter
This tale is what I was told many years later, I was just too young at the time.
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Allan Rooke · 1950s · Perry Common playing fields
Summer Lane lads on our ‘Wembley’
My parents lived on the cross roads Witton Lodge and Dovedale Road their house is still standing looking across those roads was the entrance to Perry Common playing fields which ran down to Perry…
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Coal in the morning, Villa Park by eleven
Like George Vickers, I too came from Perry Common, and attended Dulwich Rd School, most of my mates went to Hastings Rd School, and so I knew a lot of the lads that attended there.
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Only one vote
he stopped me smiled and said sorry Rooke you only got one vote that was mine,
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