Thamesmead

that No, it wasn't actually.

It was Phil and three of his friends were in scouting and they had the chance to learn to sail down at Thamesmead.

Yeah.

down near abbey wood and to get there mum drove them so i would take my book and sit in the car watch them sailing it was run by the ymca actually so it's all very low-key and george who ran it was 82 right gang with him and one day he knocked on the car door window and said we need someone to update our medical expertise.

That's so crazy.

But then five miles east in Thamesmead, you had a black gang called T-Block, which is the gang in Thamesmead.

Yeah.

those two used to go at each other um and yeah that was a gang rivalry for a long time so yeah but most of those boys went to the school that i went to year of secondary school yeah guys i went to a comprehensive secondary school um first of all let's address that because i did not belong there i'm glad i went there because i feel like that kind of school trains you for life like it gives you experiences like and because i went to a grammar school sick form which i'll come back to it was a completely different experience and when i was at the grammar school i was actually like you know what thank god i went to this school because i needed to see these things to build character and you know what i mean like they're so sheltered in grammar school absolutely that it's just like i'm so glad i actually went to a comprehensive and you see

you from Ireland? Are you from Ireland? Yeah, no, so I

grew up in Thamesmead.

Right, because me and Liam were like,

Gravesend.

No, no.

So Leon was always Gravesend.

I was Thamesmead.

And yeah, we had a few mutual friends, but then we actually properly met via online dating.

that.

We used to work on a site in Thamesmead, right, and they had scaffolding, but every weekend we would be replacing the pressure reliefs because they'd scale the wall, snap them off and scrap them.

And we'd replace them every week, the pressure reliefs, where they'd been nicking them for scrap.

Mental, isn't it? And these prices, well, say the material's gone up 10%, you're adding 10%.

We just launched earlier this year our economic growth strategy.

And that's about, again, bringing partners together to deliver, you know, Abbey Wood, Thamesmead regeneration.

Yeah, we've got some good regeneration in Thamesmead with people you're ready.

There's more to do there.

We want to continue with our campaign to get the Elizabeth line extended through to Evesley.

guys.

Locked up from Thamesmead, like, hi.

Yeah, so there was a lot of terminology, just in general being honest.

When I was at college, I'd done a lot of theatre-based stuff.

We pray courageously and we serve.

God says to you today, should I not be concerned about this today? About Brent and Barnett? about Kensington and Chelsea and Tar Hamlets, about Ealing and Thamesmead, Hillingdon, Shepherd's Bush.

God's concern for this city is rooted in God's concern for the planet.

That's why he created us.

along.

It's about the two teenage boys who live in Thamesmead.

Gay.

Gay, is it? Gay.