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it seems he went to West Ham Secondary School. The cinemas he frequented were the 'Splendide' and the 'Queens' at the top of Woodgrange Road.
Only on reading the tributes to him did I discover that Bryan Forbes is not his real name. He was given that name when starting his acting career, when he was also told to lose his cockney accent. His real name was John Clarke.

Alan

 

He must have gone to Godwin School.

Great director.

I guess it is down to better storage (and hopefully not chemicals) that I can't remember the last time I came across sour milk.

As for the bottle tops rusting, the caps on  sterilised milk were made from tin or some kind of alloy and I think they could rust. I remember some time in the 70s when my dad worked for Ind Coope in Romford. The staff used to get a beer allowance to take home (light ale) the tops weren't printed and I remember they sometimes looked quite tarnished.

Mark

You're talking about my old manager Bobby Broomfield.
Great character.
The other guy you mention was after my time at the club I think.

The thing that brings back memories of the shelter is when I go into a building that is enclosed and get the smell the damp concrete.
Regards Harry.I.

In the immediate post war years, it was arranged for every schoolchild to have a daily bottle of milk. It was 1/3 of a pint I believe. In those days of rationing, many children were not getting adequate nutrition, and this daily bottle of milk was a great way of helping in the development of children. Into the sixties and everybody's standard of living improved, and this free milk was not really needed, and so the government of the day, decided to stop the free milk to the older children, and leave it just for primary school pupils. By the time of the seventies, standards of living had risen again, so they were finally scrapped.
I can remember crates and crates of this milk being unloaded from a lorry every morning, and stacked in the corner of the playground.  At the age of 7, I tried my first bottle. It had been standing in the Sun all morning, and was turning sour. For the next 4 years I never again attempted to drink one of these bottles.

Alan

I used to help a milkman deliver  milk for the United Dairies in Freemasons Road as a schoolboy on saturdays.
The types of milk I can remember being delivered at that time was=red top, silver top, gold top,green top {I believe was Jersey milk} steralised milk with the white stone type of stopper,and another type which I think was skimmed milk which was delivered for people who had heart problems.
I can,t imagine milk tops going rusty as they were made from aluminium [aluminum for the American speakers] which were supplied to the various dairies by Vanesta,s of Canning town.
There was also a dairy at the Greengate end of Prince Regent,s lane that sold milk from a milk churn,I believe they also delivered milk by cart around the local area also from a churn.
He must of had the milk delivered straight from the farm, where this would be I have no idea.Regards Harry.I.

Hi Bof

I had noticed Michael Mcgiff and his family on the 1861 census living a few doors away from Bridget McGiff my 3x great grandmother. By this time John had died and the 1851 census just says he was born in Ireland. On the 1861 census it states Bridget was born in County Cork.

I would be very interested to hear if you manage to find a connection.

Linda

He said do you want it pasteurised cos pasteurised is best, she said Ernie i'll be happy if it comes up to my chest, now that tickled old Ernie.