The Lost Legend Of British Boxing - #RIP The Thomas A Becket (320 #OldKentRoad, South #London, #SE1)

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The Lost Legend Of British Boxing - #RIP The Thomas A Becket (320 #OldKentRoad, South #London, #SE1) 🥊⏳🍻

#RIP to a legend in the boxing world. This pub once hosted an almighty boxing gym that saw and produced world-class fighters. As well as this, the pub was a chance for local people to earn a few bob or even make themselves wealthy. Just like the Docklands of East London, this area of South London was made up of dock workers living in pre/post war England. The people of south London's Docklands had next to nothing other than each other, be it for better or for worse. Generations of #Londoners witnessed the massive changes that saw them move out to suburbs like #Kent, leaving this once proud area to become hyper-modernized.

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The reason I detest most personal trainers is because they deliberately feed off and, in most cases, increase the insecurity of their customers. I respect anyone who faces their fears and insecurities, but not those who see such bravery as a chance to capitalise. The quicker you teach a client what they need to know, the quicker they'll stop paying you. Thus, insincere characters will deliberately waste their clients' time for years simply to cash in. By a year or two, the client genuinely believes they're genetically inferior and end up quitting. Thus, the person's health and happiness were but someone else's sneaky opportunity for finance. Most personal trainers treat the business as a corporate scheme, not a chance to improve someone's life. The client mopes back into depression having wasted their time and money. But, most damaging of all, they'll believe that they tried their best because a so-called "professional" had told them they'd done so. It breaks my heart to see this so often. The rare times I see a real personal trainer, I tend to congratulate them for their skill and honesty. I also see people who qualify to train others who quite clearly haven't been through the pain or achieved the results required to do so. I see them as modern school teachers. All circumulum and dishonesty as opposed to sincerity and talent.

Sometimes, a moment can be so beautiful that, somehow, it still breaks your heart.

1953 - Private Thomas Nugent celebrates finally returning home from a Prisoner of War camp in #Korea.

#Edmonton, #England
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@lostandlivingpubs

Sometimes, a moment can be so beautiful that, somehow, it still breaks your heart.

1953 - Private Thomas Nugent celebrates finally returning home from a Prisoner of War camp in #Korea.

#Edmonton, #England
@BritainsPubs
@lostandlivingpubs

"Vinnie, vidi, vici" ~Vinnie Sullivan

#StayHumble

A large reason we love objects isn't just because of what they do but because some items represent chapters of our lives that seem to close once gone.

Though women live longer, men live the most. 😎

This is the gym within the ship that we're told was titanic in the year 1912. It's quite ironic that there was a rowing machine considering the shortage of lifeboats. 🚢⚓️

A confirmed video of myself in a previous life when I was visited by both a Labour and a Tory representative at the same time.

Once, we barely feared losing our lives. Now, we fear living them.

#NewYork, #USA, 1963

London Pub/History #Tour

Date: 26th of April
Meeting At: Blackfriars station
Time: 11 AM

(Queen Victoria Street, London, EC4V). The tour will last between 2-2 1/2 hours and will end in a pub.

Prices:
£20 per ticket (for over 18s),
16-18: £10
Under 16s: Free