
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LSFoQlIE3o
Daniel recalled :
"Invicta Infants School" which my sister had attended four years before him.
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" Blackheath" which I roamed over with my friends and caught stickle backs and tadpoles in its ponds.
" the streets of Deptford" where I grew up in Armada Street and went to my first school at Hughs Field.
"Lewisham" where I was born and worked in a shop as a 'saturday boy' when I was at school and as a dustman when I was a student "and New Cross" where I went on family sunday visits to see Uncle Lloyd and Aunt Lou and my two cousins in Chipley Street.


" the wharves and shadowy laneways of the South East London docks" where my Uncle Charlie worked as a docker.
" the terraces of Millwall football ground".
When I compare our early years, Daniel :



* found himself among tough South London kids and being of part Jewish ancestry and 'posh', was often bullied and I was one of those South London kids, possibly with part Jewish ancestry who wasn't bullied.
* mastered the local accent and mannerisms and credits that with being his first convincing performances and I, naturally, had the local accent.
*] was apparently often in trouble for shoplifting and other petty crimes and I was only in trouble at Sherrington Road School and caned on two occasions by the Headmaster.


* made his film debut at the age of 14 in 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' in which he played a young vandal in an uncredited role and which he described as "heaven", for getting paid £2 to vandalise expensive cars parked outside his local church.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvf0IjmU6oE
P.S.
I found these 2 memories of Daniel from his contemporaries at Sherrington Road School on a website called 'Charlton Life' :
* 'I went to Sherrington with him and we used to bunk into Charlton until he went home covered in red non drying paint. His mum went mad.'
* 'His mum took him out of Sherrington when he was about 10 because she saw the other boys as a bad influence. They moved to Kent and then Ireland. He was a good kid, he'd smoke and swear like the rest of us but his mum and Dad were very, very posh. When he went home for tea i had to sit on the doorstep 'cos they would'nt let me in.'
http://www.charltonlife.com/discussion/41914/new-article-living-in-charlton-village-in-the-195060s/p3
This posting is reminiscent of my :
http://britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/britain-is-country-with-london-borough.html
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