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From: "P & S O'Donnell" <>
Subject: Re: [EoLFHS] Memories.....Barking
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:19:54 -0400
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Not being a 'cockney' so to speak, as I was not born within the sound of Bow
Bells. I think this may well be a response to anyone being born on the Isle
of Dogs - which by the way is now a very 'up-market' place to live - I have
friends there who could not give their house away 10 years ago now people
are 'out bidding each other' for the pleasure of living there. I do not
recall Barking being called or responsded to as as 'Whoof-Whoof' at least
not when I lived there. However, now in Barking I guess one would have to
ask what's Urdu for Whoof!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann & David Best" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 9:09 PM
Subject: [EoLFHS] Memories.....Barking


> I don't have any memories of Barking as I left there in 1940 as a toddler
in the sidecar of a motorbike ridden by my Dad across to my grandparents
home in Ickenham during the hours of blackout . However my mother used to
tell me I was born "at Barking in the dog's home" - Upney Hospital actually.
My Dad was born on the Isle of Dogs so it seemed fitting. Once when I told
a fellow East Ender here in NZ where I came from he replied "Woof! Woof!"
Is that a common rejoinder?
>
> Cheers, Ann C Best, Wellington, NZ.
>

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