853‘s special correspondent MERCURY MAN asks for your help with an important cause. With this one I think we need to get down to business straight away, if you don’t mind. No messing. I’d like as many of you as poss to click on to change.org/999Club-PreventingHomelessness and bring some help to what has for too […]
Mercury Man
Semi-retired local newspaper columnist.
Posted inMercury Man
Mercury Man: The brothers from Kidbrooke who fought apartheid
To mark the May Day bank holiday, 853’s special correspondent MERCURY MAN has a tale of how two working class brothers from a Kidbrooke council house did their dangerous bit to help bring down apartheid in South Africa. They made their undercover contribution in August 1970 when – after being advised to get proper haircuts […]
Posted inMercury Man
Mercury Man: Bill Crow, the Charlton musician who’s keeping it real
Our special correspondent and turf investment adviser MERCURY MAN returns for a bank holiday chat with a Charlton-based singer-songwriter who explores his life in his music. For those of us grappling with old age – trying to take our onesies off without an involuntary forward roll across the room – it’s wonderful when one of […]
Posted inMercury Man
Mercury Man: Hey Joe, I heard you busking on Eltham High Street
Heard some familiar sounds in Eltham High Street recently? 853‘s special correspondent and turf investment adviser MERCURY MAN has been talking to the man playing them… The chances of coming across a Portuguese guitarist playing in Eltham High Street, just outside Clinton’s, and asking him politely if he knows any Bert Jansch, only for him […]
Posted inMercury Man
Mercury Man: Meet the Eltham author telling a forgotten war story
853‘s special correspondent MERCURY MAN meets the SE London author behind an acclaimed war story with a difference… Ain’t it great when a writer unearths a true and important story that might otherwise have gone totally AWOL? A writer like Wendy Moore and a true story like Endell Street. It’s Wendy’s fifth book and it’s […]
Posted inMercury Man
Mercury Man: Finding cricket’s new generation in Hervey Road
Been switched on to cricket by The Hundred? 853‘s special correspondent and turf investment adviser MERCURY MAN returns with the man who’s helping children from across Greenwich and Lewisham get to grips on the crease. I don’t like cricket. I love it. Especially compared to that game where all sorts of dastardly foul play are […]
Posted inMercury Man
Mercury Man: From Deptford High Street to the mayor of Wells
Local journalism isn’t normally the way to fame and fortune – but one hack from SE London’s long-gone local paper has made it big in the West Country. 853‘s special correspondent MERCURY MAN caught up with an old friend… Taxi outside. Zooming to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, about me knees. Not sure if I’m under […]
Posted inMercury Man
Mercury Man: Telling the story of Uncle Bob and the First World War
853‘s special correspondent, MERCURY MAN, is back with a family history story from the trenches of wartime France. Contacts is the name of the game. You find ‘em, you write ‘em up and you put ‘em – you’ve guessed it – in your contacts book. Which, more often than not, is little and black. Take […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.