This is Watling Park, in Burnt Oak, where I grew up. The park's down the end of my old road, where my mum still lives, and I did this while I was back. Looks nice doesn't it. The view across to Deansbrook, to the old football field, past old oak trees, look there's a group of chavs getting drunk on thunderbird, and look there's a kid mugging an old lady, and there's someone taking drugs, and look there's a teenage father teaching his kid how to do graffiti, ah isn't that nice. Not much has changed over the years I suppose. The amount of time spent in this park as a kid, jeez, playing footy on the bowling green, messing about in the stream and on the tarzan rope, going on the swings, playing hide-and-seek in the bushes, avoiding the gluesniffers and the crazy stray dogs and the kids from grahame park. And down below, that's the view I saw every day from my bedroom window, norwich walk. drawn may 23, 2007, watercolour, purple micron pigma .005 pen. ps: 20six is very annoying for always going offline and making the blogs disappear, at the only times i get to update. i am not amused. pps: more pictures to come, but i promise i'll get back to some actual writing at some point soon as well...
good evening, this is burnt oak
8.6.07 08:03
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Red Queen / Website (8.6.07 15:00) This does look nice, very similar to the part of Edinburgh I used to live in, with the exception of visible glue sniffers and neds. Not how I imagined Burnt Oak at all. And why isn't at least one car on fire? Watch now all the rich property hunters rush in to buy houses there after seeing your sketches! I was wondering earlier just where your blog disappeared to (down the bloghole obviously) so pleased to find out it hadn't self-destructed. |
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petescully / Website (8.6.07 16:11) Oh, we get the burnt out cars there too. That's a more recent thing, you wouldn't see that so much when i were a lad. Better not tell the property ladder people though. |
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tom palmer (17.6.07 02:12) be nice if you could do a sketch of deensbrook shops,with the lads standing outside the betting shop,or the entrance to watling park with the lads sitting on the seats drinking cider, england my england. |
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petescully / Website (20.6.07 23:59) another time, perhaps. |
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tom palmer (21.6.07 22:54) ok.nim |
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peter hayes (10.10.07 06:49) hi tom nice to see your name on screen brought back many funny memories of burnt oak here are just some of them the stag on the weekend coxy muff warner dicko rogers greeny emberg caffry dai & johny walls knolwsey to name but a few scratch woods on a saturday night with fred sharp fucking lunatic ha ha ha leysdowne on the wkend did we have some laughs or what thats the burnt oak i want to remember not the shit hole now all the best tom see you sometime hayesy |
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tom palmer (24.11.07 18:28) the 60s were the best time to live in burnt oak. its a rubbish dump now. tom. |
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tom palmer (24.11.07 20:05) keep in touch peter. ps fancy a purple heart. tom palmer.B |
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tom palmer (3.12.07 20:59) does any one else rember the swing easy caff, which was across the road from burnt oak station, or the drum caff.???? tom. |
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(7.8.08 00:58) the best time in burnt oak was before all these dirty rotten immigrants came and run riot over every good person,the good ones,with jobs houses etc,left had to for the sake of there kids,and the only whites left,there are scumbags,as bad as the nigger drug dealers them selfs,,,i remember when i was a kid a skinhead it was a great place,and good fun,well as much as a working class kid was gonna get,now just a danger trap for any good old fucker that cant get out,still its the same all over now,unless you got just enough,to live outside it all,i moved years back,thank god,shit hole,to think i used to be called a nazi then,,if i was a kid now,i would be going mad prob,,dead,with the shithole that burnt oak is now,still just like all english sit back do nothing just grump,and what can you do,is all they say,vote bnp make a stand, |
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(8.8.08 20:02) your 100% right mate, it used to be a good place to live but as you say not any more, i moved out in oct 07, and when i drive through its got double worse in that short time.did you know the stag is owned by a non english gentleman???. england my england. |
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