Comments on: At the Boys' Club 86th Anniversary Dinner

By: jim goodson

jim goodson — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 22:19:05 +0000

Ilived in calvert avenue went to ncbc and played against spurs and scored also new the lamb family very well would love to know .if any pictures of the spurs game exist many thanks

By: Joan Rose (nee Raymond)

Joan Rose (nee Raymond) — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:36:16 +0000

How wonderful to find this page on spitalfieldslife. So many names that I recognise. Lambert, Hiller, Katz etc.. Do any of you remember us Lily, Vera, Doris and Joan Raymond. My grandparents and parents (Lil and Alf) had the greengrocers in Calvert Ave.

By: fred gallone

fred gallone — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:54:38 +0000

I attended the club as a teenager in the mid -late 70’s and remember playing badminton with Len and Maxie.

Len made a fundermental point during a game once when he took me to one side and said “fred, you a good player, but the object of the game is to win the point not just to return the shuttlecock”
It changed everything for me that moment onwards. I started to question and to try and discover the reasons why thing were in everything I did.
I always remember that lesson fron Len, it had a profound effect on me.

By: mick twohig

mick twohig — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:26:20 +0000

I was a member from about 1962 till starting work,Wow what a place for kids to grow.Camping at weekends, playing in the woods.Fish and chips from bishop stortford chippie shop. Trying to erect a tent in the pouring rain. Mr tichmarsh giving you a fag if you had to fill the hole what was used for abolutions, who remembers bootsie, what a good bloke. if anyone reads this and knows where the lambs live tony and raymond please get in touch, oh yes and playing in the school grounds against spurs organised by maxie lea. any pics. thanks to all who helped me grow up.
love to all
mick

By: Rob Jones

Rob Jones — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:39:07 +0000

I went to New Cambridge Boys Club up to the point that it was closed down in Virginia School in the late eighties/early nineties. Lennie Saunders was a great Badminton coach, and Joe Brandez taught me everything I knew about Table Tennis. Dave and Pauline Greenhalgh took good care of us and those weekends at Woodrow, and Hindleap will forever live in my memory. We also had Gripper (Terry Mose), so called because he had a Gripper Stepson (Grange Hill) hairstyle. I’ve still got all my trophies in the loft from the open evenings, and glad to have met Les Sealey RIP and Clive Allen. Also a big mention to Jim Wren RIP. His passing will live forever in my memory.

By: Ann Kaye (Hannah Konetsky)

Ann Kaye (Hannah Konetsky) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:47:43 +0000

Or anyone who remembers me too..I’d love to hear from you by phone for now. I am just learning how to use the computer.

By: Ann Kaye (Hannah Konetsky)

Ann Kaye (Hannah Konetsky) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:33:38 +0000

It is with great regret that I have to inform you all that my darling brother Martin Lewis (Konetsky) passed away on September 9th. His funeral will be on Tuesday September 13th at Rainham in Essex. He was loyal club member and this year was the first year that he missed attending the reunion. He was very much loved and will be missed by everyone. If anyone knows how to get in touch with Max Lea –please ask him to phone me 0208-958-3852

By: Ron Goldstein

Ron Goldstein — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:29:08 +0000

Dear Anita

As you know, we are now happily corresponding by e-mail.

What I would advise to others posting on this forum is never to give your full e-mail address but to use the word AT instead of using the @ sign.

Finally, if you ever need to contact me with queries about the C&BG Boy’s Club you can do so through http://candbgoldboys.blogspot.com/.

Best regards

Ron

By: Anita Loftus (nee Colever)

Anita Loftus (nee Colever) — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:27:43 +0000

Dear Ron,
I lived in Leslie House, Brick Lane, from the early 30′s until 1942, when Jack Loftus and myself were married in the Chance Street Building after the Bethnal Green Syn. was bombed. Unfortunately, Jack passed away 6 months after our 60th wedding anniversary in March 2003, aged 82. Jack was a member of your club and went to a couple of the re-unions in the 60′s (I still have the brochures. I have seen all the photos of this year’s re-union but unfortunately, so few names are mentioned under each photo. I did recognise Simon Kester and Ben Katz and the Hiller brothers and I was sorry to learn that my school friend Annie Hiller had passed away. I am now living with my only daughter in Melbourne Australia and I received the news from Joe Kaye (Kosky) now living in Los Angeles, by way of Ben Katz. I have been re-united with Joe, Simon and Ben by email. So anyone who may
remember me or Jack I will be very pleased to hear from you.
My email address is anitalofAToptusnet.com.a

By: jeannette

jeannette — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:18:23 +0000

how beautiful. i hope you gave mr. michael denton a big kiss for me.