Butcher Boy
By jolono
Story of a young boy whose life is transformed by working in a Butchers Shop in Londons East End. What starts out as great fun, gradually becomes more and more darker as he gets involved in Londons underworld in the seventies.
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Butcher Boy ( Part 20, The Visit)
A visit from Gaz is never good!
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Butcher Boy ( Part 15, 1976, Me)
I have separated this Chapter into two parts. The first, my life in 1976. The next what was going on with Roy at the same time. Me.
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Butcher Boy ( Part One, Early Days).
Year is 1972 and the start of something big.
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Butcher Boy ( Extra Bits - Mellow Maisy)
Roy buys a Greyhound........
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Butcher Boy ( Extra Bits - Swags)
I'm given a "special" job to do every week.
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Butcher Boy ( Extra Bits)
The story of the CHAIR, it was an experience!
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Butcher Boy ( Part 10, Mr Patel)
More front then Brighton and more Jam than Hartleys!
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Butcher Boy ( Part 11, Colin and the Cousins)
Gangsters appear.
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Butcher Boy ( Part 12, New Boys)
New faces appear.
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Butcher Boy ( Part 13, Old Ken and the Vouchers)
One door closes and another opportunity appears...
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Butcher Boy ( Part 14, Christmas 1975)
Turkeys, Turkeys and more Turkeys!
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Butcher Boy ( Part 15 1976, Roy)
Roys not quite so good 1976
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Butcher Boy ( Part 16, Gun Fight)
Guns, Heavies, Shoot out?
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Butcher Boy ( Part 17, Captured)
The day of reckoning comes..
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Butcher Boy ( Part 18, Changes)
Times are a changin..
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Butcher Boy ( Part 19, Goodbye)
And then it was goodbye
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Butcher Boy ( Part 21, Supergrass.)
Headline news, it all falls into place...
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Butcher Boy ( Part 22, Moving On)
Time to move on....
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Butcher Boy ( Part 23, Reunion)
I can't believe it, seeing Roy again?
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Butcher Boy ( Part 3, Back for More)
He,s back for more and loves it.
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Butcher Boy ( Part 4, Learning the Ropes)
He's enjoying it but is there something else going on?
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Butcher Boy ( Part 5, Roys Story)
The reason why Roy was so popular!
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Butcher Boy ( Part 6, Gambling and Kids.)
Spending more time at the shop and Roys just spending!
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Butcher Boy ( Part 7, Christmas 72)
Christmas comes and its bloody hard work...
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Butcher Boy ( Part 9, Corned Beef)
Has Roy got in too deep?
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Butcher Boy ( Part Two, First Impressions)
It's bloody hard work!
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Butcher Boy (Part 8, A Record Career!)
The start of the really big deals...
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My Post Office Experience
In 1980 I was made redundant. My job had been as an Assistant Sales Manager for a wholesale meat company in Smithfield market. That was bollocks...
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Me, Dad and Ali. ( Part 1)
“For as long as I can remember he was always there in the background.” I first became aware of the name Cassius Clay in 1963. I was five years old...
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Me, Dad and Ali. ( Part 2)
"For as long as I can remember he was always there in the background" I came home from school and sat down to eat corn beef, chips and pickle. I...
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Me, Dad and Ali. ( Part 3)
"For as long as I can remember he was always there in the backgound." The night of October 26th 1970 would be a long one. Instead of going to bed...
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Me, Dad and Ali. ( Part 4)
"For as long as I can remember he was always there in the background." Ali didn’t retire. Instead he had three more fights in 1971, winning them all...
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Me, Dad and Ali. ( Part 5)
"For as long as I can remember he was always there in the background." I heard him say the words but they didn’t really sink in. He sat down at the...
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Me, Dad and Ali. ( Part 6)
"For as long as I can remember he was always there in the background." Two months later and George Foreman was defending his World title against Ken...
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Me, Dad and Ali. ( Part 7)
"For as long as I can remember he was always there in the background." 1975 was a year of change for me, dad and Ali. Ali changed his religion from...
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Me, Dad and Ali. ( Part 8) Final.
"For as long as I can remember he was always there in the background." Surprise, surprise. Ali didn’t retire. Three months later he defended his...
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Our House.
Every word is true... Our house had four rooms and a kitchen. Sounds grand doesn’t it. Except... You walked in off the street into our “Front Room”...
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Wagon Train. ( Part 1)
TRUE STORY. We met up behind the garages. We didn’t have long. I had to be in by 6.30 or Mum would go mad. Reggie told us the news. It was definitely...
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Wagon Train. ( Part 2)
We had a problem that none of us had thought of. There were hundreds of boxes of popcorn and only four of us. Each box contained 48 packets. The...
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Dad was "Old School"
Dad was “Old School.” You know what I mean by that? Well, he was a man of his time. Born in the thirties, just a kid during the war, a teenager in...
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Eleven Plus and Me.
Seeing the GCSE results on the TV today reminded me of an exam I took in 1969. It was the Eleven- plus. I was a bright kid at eight and nine and when...
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Mr Russ.
I don’t have any War Medals from relatives. Dad did National Service in 1950, but was too young to serve in WW2. My Granddads were too young for WW1...
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Even the IRA couldn't get us a telephone.
We were the last family in our street to get a telephone. Dad just wouldn’t have one. He’d say. “People can call you whenever THEY like. I could be...
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Hello jolono I'm going to
2 tins if you read them all!
Congrats on your 98th
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