Only Fools and Horses Complete

Photo No.5 showing a bus in a crater in BALHAM HIGH STREET brings back memories to me. I lived in Balham when I was a very young boy in the 50s and can remember knowing about the bus ending-up in a large hole after a bombing raid.This photo brings back memories because I can see the railway bridge that crosses the road and Balham tube station where I often bought copies of the kids magazines Beano and Dandy to read( and for the “free” gifts )that were often placed inside them.This photo along the high street is also very close to the ABC cinema where I went on a Saturday morning with loads of other kids and paid sixpence to watch Roy Rogers and Trigger, Flash Gordon, and Laurel and Hardy who made you laugh your head-off ! On the right-hand side of the photo are shops, and in later years one became a clothing shop that was mentioned in the very popular comedy series on the BBC called “Only Fools and Horses”. The shop that Del Boy would sometimes mention was called Sol Brothers. |Just a small shop but it became famous due to the success of the comedy.Good old Balham! Often said to be the “Gateway to the South” Blakey on Anorak back in the 50s lived little more than a stones-throw from Balham tube. Great days and memories.

Haha, not at all, but Nathan Marcello’s license joke rings true, a lot of people outside of the UK do find Brit humour a bit alien at times. Personally I have always loved Monty Python also, and Faulty Towers, Only fools and horses, etc. But I appreciate most forms of humour, be it from the USA, UK, France, wherever.Thanks for your comment Gregory

not sure about Rodney as a name for an action character. Check out Only Fools and Horses (British) to see why!

Best moment in only fools and horses! Del Boy bar fall

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