Phil Lee "Old Mother Bermondsey"

[@richardleigh2788]

Love it ! Proper old song about the place i love. Nice one phil !!!!

[@trevorray574]

As a Bermonsey boy and proud of it this is brilliant

[@peterkelly7527]

We are an endangered species

[@chris-rfs]

The cleansing of real locals continues,nothing has changed. I still live in Bermondsey but REAL locals have virtually gone with my parents generation. The area is now full of rich outsiders!!. Very sad really!!. My dad would not believe what has become of his beloved Bermondsey!!☹ The labour party started the big sell off allowing the LDDC to do what it wanted and allow the redevelopment of council estates for private sale and rents!!

[@vercingetorixwulf9298]

Seen so many changes. I'm residing in Marden square right now. Saw it go up, maybe it should come down 😂😂

[@charlotteosman7328]

I absolutely love this iam a bermondsey girl looking at these photos bring back so many memories obviously i know the places and i can't tell you how much they mean to me thank you so much for this Tony please put more of this sort of thing up if you have it A FAN X CHARLOTTE ❤️💯

[@MJ-rz3ny]

Most of old Bermondsey went to Bexleyheath or Welling following the great replacement and cleansing of it's people.

[@bobbybillionXRP]

Depressing listening to this, knowing what's happening to Bermondsey

[@christinemo9622]

I love this song. I lived in Major Road [now destroyed to permit the building of the Underground] and in Kirby Estate in Southwark Park Rd. Kirby Estate was under the Council when I lived there. The flat I lived in was recently on sale for 350,000 GBP !!! Bermondsey and Rotherhithe have now been gentrified. It might be an improvement but I miss the old Bermondsey.

[@chris-rfs]

Gentrification continues! My dad would not believe what has happened to his beloved Bermondsey. The price of property you mentioned,thats cheap! 2 bed flat near Lower Rd sold last year for £650,000. What chances have REAL locals got??NONE! Very,very,sad.

[@choppylamb5823]

True mate also I remember going swimming at the open air swimming pool in southock park

[@davidcook4457]

Love it ! I live up long lane

[@choppylamb5823]

@davidcook4457 my mate used to live above the valentine pub in long lane I think that was the name of it mates name was having erdly

[@choppylamb5823]

True its just not the same . I was bought up tower bridge rd end bermondsey boys club the old on on pages walk then boxed for a bit at the new one next to my primary school grange loved it as a kid throwing stones at old derelict blocks of flats and just travelling round the whole of London trying to get freebies the biscuit factory where my mum worked was a goodn lol i actually had a right touch my mate jamie apps his mum worked at Broomfields in the mornings and menzes pie mash shop at lunch so that was pukka my other mate mastiffas dad was the ice cream van man and then there was kemal his family owned the kebab shop on tower bridge rd opposite the pagoda very good memories 😢😢

[@tonystone3397]

Nice one.

[@lorrainereeves4466]

We know more now! The ordinary folk in our beloved country know more now. Great. Hooray for us. Don’t latch onto yesterdays. Move on and seize what is important to us. Working class rules.

[@nathanosgood4959]

Why is it called ‘the Blue’? As in the song...

[@christinemo9622]

The pub just past the railway arch in Southwark Park Rd was called The Blue Anchor.

[@vercingetorixwulf9298]

It's to do with its religious past .....