DOUGGIE JOHN
The Canterbury Blues Man
Remembering Dan Venes This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you - Don McLean In the fourth decade of the all-out war against...
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- Apr 12
- 1 min
OVERSTANDING
Born in Beckenham, raised in Penge and Orpington, a Cray boy I'd fall in love five times a day, always far too shy to say a word, or meet...
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- Jan 20
- 6 min
The Victorian War Against Innocence
Amelia Sachs Baby farming, have you ever heard of such a thing? In the late Victorian period, it became a widespread practice. Babies,...
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- Dec 20, 2022
- 8 min
FRANCES BROWN, A PORTOBELLO MYSTERY
Old Notting Hill, London West 11, how many untold stories? I visited Hayden's Place, off the Portobello Road, on a cold December night in...
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- Jul 25, 2022
- 12 min
Stoke Newington Police Terrorism in the 1980's
A nightmare revisited : (Copied from: The Radical History of Hackney) On January 1st 1987 a young black man, Trevor Monerville, was...
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- Dec 5, 2021
- 4 min
SECONDHAND WAR STORIES
For a man who's never been in the army, I know a hell of a lot of war stories. It is because, throughout my life I've made a point of...
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- Aug 20, 2021
- 7 min
The Kitten Miracle
I've known Craig Shaw for donkey's years, he's a brother from another mother. We met in a Harlesden bar. He was the resident frontman in...
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- Apr 4, 2021
- 21 min
Resurrecting Bill Hammond
'My underground train runs from Brixton to Bounds Green' - Mike Skinner/ The Streets As dream jobs go, mine is all consuming. I'm head...
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- Aug 23, 2020
- 9 min
JACK THE STRIPPER NEVER EXISTED
Here's to Elizabeth Figg, Gwynneth Rees, Hannah Tailford, Irene Lockwood and her unborn child, Helen Barthelemy, Mary Fleming, Francis...
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- Jun 28, 2020
- 0 min
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- Jun 13, 2020
- 8 min
Superbad: The Lost King of The Kronk
'If I wasn't down here fighting, I'd probably be down in Juvenile somewhere. This place has changed my life around.' - Bernard Mays, the...
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- Feb 13, 2020
- 6 min
WHERE HAVE ALL THE BOOT BOYS GONE?
The evolution of English football fan culture During the good-old-bad-old days of five hundred strong hooligan mobs and minimal fan...
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- May 4, 2019
- 6 min
The Amalga Scooter Club
A UNION OF LIKE MINDS The original Amalga Line up: Tony Jex, Marlon John, Mark Scarrett, Tony Paul and Paul Gardner 'I never thought I'd...
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- Jan 20, 2019
- 2 min
THE "MY WAY" KILLINGS
In August 1996 I stopped habitually smoking weed. During that first year without puff, my dreams became bizarre experiences. In a...
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- May 21, 2018
- 9 min
TOMMY SHIELS, WHATEVER HAPPENED?
Once upon a prospect great expectations were placed. The difference between British professional boxing in the mid 1980s and today's...
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- Mar 28, 2018
- 1 min
A Life in The Day
I saw the night sneak quickly by and slip into grey daylight attire. I watched the day long and full of regret place my hope on an...
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- Oct 16, 2017
- 10 min
Up and Coming. Ten Boxing Prospects.
1) Josh 'Pretty Boy' Kelly Professional Welterweight 2012 World Youth Games bronze medalist. 2013 England Boxing Elite Champion. 2015...
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- May 7, 2017
- 1 min
WORDS FOUND IN OTHER WORDS
FOUND IN CHARISMA Cash Rash Rim Cram Mash Ash Ah: (Exclamation: used to express a range of emotions including surprise, sympathy and...
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DOUGGIE JOHN
- Jan 8, 2017
- 2 min
WORDS FOUND IN OTHER WORDS
FOUND IN HEATHROW Throw Heath A Aero He Ate Her Other Rat Raw Eat The Oat Or Oar Ore: (Noun: A naturally occurring solid material from...
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