Beckenham

And Graham went to a school in Forest Hill.

And I went to school in Beckenham.

So it was all South London.

And we just got to know each other through people.

The goal was the dream of being and starting a band and doing your own thing.

So he probably heard about somebody that was doing that.

And that's what I was doing in Beckenham.

You know, I was at that particular point, I'd seen, I'd seen something.

And then in secondary school, just my two older brothers.

And, you know, I went to Sedge Hill in Beckenham for secondary school.

And at the time, it was a bit of a challenging school in itself, like most inner city schools are in London.

But there was a lot of amazing pockets of amazing people.

So I decided I'm going to buy my own drum kit.

And what I started doing, gosh, I laugh at this now.

What I started doing is I'd wake up early and for the Southeast Londoners that know, my school's Sedghill, it's in Beckenham.

And I'd go to the Sydenham Saver Centre just before school.

That settles it.

I don't know how many times you can say that from Hayes to Beckenham.

You know where I live now.

Hayes, from Hayes all the way to Beckenham.

That's about a 12-minute journey.

I don't know how many times you can say, God said it.

everything changes, everything.

And I kept going different churches and then I walked in the doors of Citygate Church in Beckenham and my mind was blown.

I said, oh, I'm home.

Find your home.

How far will that possible diffusion accomplish itself? Let us first of all consider the case of those classes that will be free to exercise a choice in the matter, and we shall then be in a better position to consider those more numerous classes whose general circumstances are practically dictated to them.

What will be the forces acting upon the prosperous household, the household with a working head and four hundred a year and upwards to live upon in the days to come? Will the resultant of these forces be, as a rule, centripetal or centrifugal? Will such householders in the greater London of 2000 AD still cluster for the most part as they do today in a group of suburbs as close to London as is compatible with a certain fashionable maximum of garden space and air? Or will they leave the ripened gardens and the no longer brilliant villas of Surbiton and Norwood, Tooting and Beckenham to other and less independent people? First let us weigh the centrifugal attractions.

The first of these is what is known as the passion for nature, that passion for hillside, wind and sea that is evident in so many people nowadays, either frankly expressed or disguising itself as a passion for golfing, fishing, hunting, yachting or cycling.

And secondly there is the allied charm of cultivation, and especially of gardening, a charm that is partly also the love of dominion perhaps, and partly a personal love for the beauty of trees and flowers and natural things.