A LONDON BOY

Author Leo Marino

The True Stories of a Street Wise Kid Growing Up in London

A LONDON BOY – When I look back on my life, and the growing up, and all the things I got up to as a kid, with all the trouble I got into, I think that although I thought that I had a normal childhood, and I do realize now that compared with other kids that it had been very adventurous, mischievous and often a very dangerous one.

I realise now that from an early age we were all very street wise kids
from south east London. We would often get a Red Rover Travel Pass for a
few shillings each, then travel all over London from the age of six or
seven on the red buses and underground trains (The Tube), sometimes
coming home late, tired, and always very hungry.

We were never looking for trouble, but got into it often, never thinking of the consequences of some of the things my gang of friends got up to either.

I blame my mates, but the truth is that we were all as bad as each other. We all came from poor families, but this never really occurred to any of us, I thought my family was rich because we had carpet in our front room, although it was second hand, and it only furnished the middle of the floor, the carpet had a wide margin around it, maybe one or two meters away from any wall.

I thought I was lucky though; I had a small mat on my cold Lino covered bedroom floor that I could stand on during wintertime when I got out of bed in the morning, better than standing on ice cold Lino like at my mates’ houses. I also thought I had loads of toys as well compared with my mates, but in realallity there were only a few.

I had an old leather lace up football, two action men (like a GI Joe) one had been a birthday present, and the other was second hand pink plastic naked from a junk market. But my favorite toy was a bent up and straightened out third hand and a bit rusty mechanical construction set called “Meccano”.

It was the school summer holidays, and it had been raining for a few days, so I had been to the local library and had got some books about medieval weapons that had been used during the Roman occupation of Britain.

The Trebuchet looked like it was easy to construct, so I decided to make one using my Meccano set. I thought Meccano would be a good choice to play with because it had never got me into trouble before, and I knew that if I got my dad’s saw and drill out from the shed in the back garden to make one from wood, that I would get told off, or possibly, and more likely, there would be an eventful trip to the local hospital involving me, an injury of some sort and blood.

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A LONDON BOY

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