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What is it and where is it?
Itchycoo Park is a name East End kids used to give
to any local park (Manor Park) where vagrants congregated (when I
was a kid in the East End in the '60s). (Paul Williams)
The name comes about because the park was
notorious for the stinging nettles that tended to attract kids
playing and courting couples and make them itch.
I was born and bred in Manor Park E12 and lived
there between 1953 and1967. I met Steve Marriott on a number of
occasions as a youngster. Manor Park itself was not known as
Itchycoo Park rather it was what us local kids including Steve
nicknamed little Ilford Park due to the horrendous amount of
stinging nettles there. It is still there at the bottom of Church
Road E12 now minus the nettles. Hope this authentic info puts you
right. (Anthony Wragg)
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