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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL
1937.
OLD COLONIAL Looks ENYK
"T
at LONDON
HERE'S an empty, anddle in the
old corral....".
A mendicant gramophone Was complaining miserably to a cinema
quoue about it.
And there was an empty look in the eye of the Old Colonial, as he looked on. Maybe he was thinking of an empty saddle in an old corral.
"Homesick?" I ventured sympathetically. The empty look immediately filed with sus- *picion. Behind him in New Zealand' House was a warning about confidence tricksters, and he obviously expected me to produce a "gold briek," But a gush of sentiment in him -madé him soften. He was look- ing for someone in whom to confide his sorrows.
"What have they done?" he asked, mournfully, indicating the cinema. "Where's the old Tivoll?"
I told him they had pulled it down 14 or 15 years ago.
"Then I hope the ghost of Marie Lloyd haunts the so-and-" sos for the rest of their so-and- so lives," he exclaimed in a voice which would have chilled a Canterbury lamb.
"Many's a time I've stood in the gods and chorused 'The Rooins wot Cromwell knocked abaht a bit? Many's a time I've...
HE
LE WAS off on the long, long_trall that winds back into the sentimental days of Yoster- year, and I was at his heels,
It turned out that he was a New Zenlander, a sheep-farmer. But he had been born in London fifty odd years ago, in Bethnal Green, and he had kept his Cockney accent as well as his affection for London. He had gone to New Zealand with an assisted passage nearly 30 years ago, and, except as an Anzac, during the War, he had not been hack since.
Jo we made a compact (a) that I should not try to sell him any gold- bricks, but would show him Lon- don as it is to-day. (b) that he
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cony. "Struth, Bill, I'd 'ave knowed you any- whero. Remember the time I jammed your head in the railings when you tried to kiss mc."
And, in the boisterous reunion and the flood-tide of shrill reminiscences, his outraged sentiment found a respite.
But for all her "jollying." even Liza could not reconcile him to the three-room and Kitclien flat.
"Look at the bartroom, Bill," she ploaded, "Remember the alley on Satur- day night?"
"Where are the slums that were here when I was a boy?” he asked "Those Socialists have destroyed them," was the reply. "They respect nothing !"
a Tory friend.
would show me London as it was yesterday.
With him I went back to. school, at a time when children were sent Nomg if they did not have the money to pay for their schooling. Into a London where horses still drew the trams and the buses. Into badly lit streets, with footpads, pickpockets and professional. 'pugs" ready to start a fight for what it was worth,
Into Arbour Square Police Court to see his father flued as one of the endless stream of drunks from an East End which drugged its misery and its hopelessness with bad liquor.
Into a workhouse on one occa- ston when his father was thrown out of work and the, family left destitute to be rent apart by Bum- biedom.
Into the slum kitchen on Batur- day night when a family of twelve was bathed in decreasingly and in- creasingly dirty water in a gal- vanised tub, from a kettle on the range,
AND
AND with him. I saw again that family put hurriedly to bed ("before the Ole Man would get home spolling for a fight" on
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floor-mattresses and truelle- beds, piled sonichow into two small rooms.
Together with him I played "coppers and burglars," with the "coppers" always getting the worst of it, in a mud- clogged alley or in a backyard where the clothes never got a chance to dry.
"An' 'er gowlden 'air was 'angin' dahn her back."
Or, when they had funds to go "up West," to the Empire, or the AltramIUTE, OTTHu-Pay or the Tivoll, to suck oranges in the "goda" and spit the pips into the stalls.
"And look at it now," he said, disgustedly, pointing to the Tivoli; a cinema!"
But worse was to come. He found the Alhambra in ruins, à cinema on the site of the Empire, the Pavilion another cinema, and, to him the cruel- lost of all, the fate of the Leicester Bar,
"Oh, I don't know." he said grudgingly." There was something about them old days. All the kids splashing in the kitchen and the galvanised tub slopping over and mum getting madder and madder. Not that you haven't a nice place here, Liza." he added hastily.
The kids like it,” she said, nod- ding over the balcony at the children romping In the safety of the garden square, “Better'n what we had, Bill, the alley, the yard and up among the chimneys on the flat-roof of the Trust Building.".
But Old Colonial was still resent- ful when we were leaving,
"This isn't like the old place at all." he said to Liza. ·
"You're telling met" said Liza who goes to the pictures,
"Who built them?" "Oh, them Labour blokes," said Liza.
So it was when we went to see the Lido in Victoria Park. ("Oh, them Labour blokes" were responsible again.)
"Turning the East Enders into a lot o' ninnies," he said disgustedly, "Suppose they've left the Tower of London alone?"
And I was glad to reassure him: "What about the Crystal Palace?" he asked.
"WHEN people dropped I broke the news gently that it
And I saw him, through his own ( mischievous memories, 13 the young grocer's apprentice sinash- Ing the windows of an Infant " Co- ор at the instigation of his em- ployer
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• Then We .went on to the Embankment to see the ruins of Adelphi and Shell-Mex House rearing its tower in place of The Cecil, but he did not got as far as them.
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