Welcome to the Bridge House Forum

[col]

hi everyone i,ve just joined this great site,
i first went to the bh in 76 , i lived in brixton and roadied for my cousins band pepper cottage who mainly played in the white bear in kennington but also all over london , we done a wedding on a saturday night in barking where i met a girl called maureen who said come over tomorrow night and i,ll take you down the bridge house and see r d b , well that was my sunday nights for the next couple of years , also saw r d b at the golden lion in fulham and also in north london somewhere cant remember ! i then got some mates to come who also loved it , what weekends we had then !! saturday night wimbledon stadium hot rod racing sundays the bh for rdb, we would come over in our raced up mk1 escorts ( i still have a 1974 one now today in the garage) & cortinas then race home through blackwell tunnel with absoluetly no fear
great times
cheers col

[TerryMurphy]

Nice post Col,,this is why we started the Forum.to share out memories ,Did you stay with Maureen?
R.D.B. are playing on the 10th of January,at B.H.2
Regards Terry M

[col]

cheers terry, no i,m afraid i only dated maureen for about 5 months  her dad disliked me from the off , he called me the wide boy from south london , always wondered whether he was refering to my 40 inch waist , but i remember him being a big copper who did,nt want me parking my noisey escort outside his house if maureen comes on the forum i,d love to hear from her as we parted on good terms, we decided to go our seperate ways outside the bh just as dave edwards blasted out stay with me baby   , i think she started to go bh on a monday instead because if my memory serves me right did,nt rdb play sundays & mondays ?
anyway enough of me waffling  , great forum and i,ll deffo make the trip over on the 10th see you then
cheers col

[mcsparrer]

Tel,
Just read the book, what memories. Glad that you could use the photo of Steve Marriott.

[TerryMurphy]

yes Steve thanks for the picture,Cock Sparrer played a big part in the making of the Bridge,So you with Marriot,was perfect.Also Glad to here you are still gigging.I guess it does not get any easier.Regards T.M

[mcsparrer]

Morning Tel
It's Colin. We played in November in Wolverhampton to launch the new album and have got further things arranged for later in the year. There's also some talk of more gigs a bit further afield but we'll see how it goes. No-ones more surprised than us that people still want to come and hear the songs but we still have a laugh, so that's all that matters. The barnet's are a bit thinner in some cases (a lot in mine!!) and we'd struggle to get into those 28" waist Levis these days. First and foremost we're still all mates and still get over Upton Park for every game. The thing that leapt out of the book for me was the chance that you gave to us up and coming bands, even though we were crap and definately not your personal cup of tea. And for this we will always be eternally grateful (even if we did stick the £8.00 you paid us straight back over the bar!!). I hope the family are well mate and please pass on our best wishes to them all.

[TerryMurphy]

Here is a e,mail i received, today it mail like this that make the work worth while,any one remember,?

Hello Terry,I was looking around on the web and found this site,I came to the bridge house a lot with my group of mates 1977 and was friends with the band and everyone.I just passed my driving test and drove from Hackney in my 1966 triumph-which got nicked the second time I came to the pub!!but I did get it back.
 Thank you for putting up with us,iam sure it was hard watching a bunch of young punks acting stupid-I though you might kill us sometimes so didn’t get out of hand too much.Maybe you remember the American girls that worked there?Lori and Melissa,I married Lori,so she could stay in the country,we moved to Los Angeles a few years later,I am still here on my 3rd wife and two kids.
 I am so glad to have amazing memorys,thanks to people like you.
 Say hello to anyone from wasted youth for me,next time iam home maybe I can drop in--Take care, sincerely Peter D