- Contributed by听
- SpidleShanks
- People in story:听
- Norman
- Location of story:听
- London / Islington
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A3786672
- Contributed on:听
- 14 March 2005
On VE or VJ night the community celebrated by having a bonefire on a bomb sight at the end of Medina Road. Islington London N7.
A piano was dragged out and someone gave me a Tuba, which I could not play, and sat me up on the piano. I somehow made an appropriate sound with the Tuba and everybody cheered and started singing and dancing, a proper knees-up. The celebrations were so loud that nobody heard whether or not I played another note.
The following morning a picture of me, sitting on the piano, blowing this tuba was on the back page of the Daily Mirror. The picture was taken from a low angle which emphasised my long thin legs which gave me the nickname Spindleshanks.
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