Memories of My Way!

Bernard was born and bred in Upper Holloway / Hornsey Rise London N.19.The area in which Matt Monroe had been discovered singing in The Favourite Pub N.19 (situated just before the Rise (hill) to Crouch End / Hornsey N.8 where Colin Chapman started building Lotus Cars alongside Hornsey BR Railway Station utilising the railway sidings to build the cars); close by to Rod Stewart (Highgate N.6) where an old school friend of Bernies Colin Webster (Hornsey Rise N19) had rescued Rod from a dance hall brawl in the early 1960s (Finchley N.3).The same area where Bob Hoskins (Stroud Green N.4) later dated Bernies first girl friend Gina Dalmasio (Archway) who with Bernie had attended the same school as Eddy Grant! (Tufnell Park NW5)... and the daughter of George Francis (Kentish Town NW5) with whom Bernie had sparred long before Frank Bruno!