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- Should have more face than crown on top.

Even when you do this, take that measurement off,

place it on the brim, see where my thumb comes,

my thumb shouldn't go down here.

That means the height of the crown is too tall.

Now, as an optical illusion, if you did

a Frank Sinatra like this, that increases,

that appears to lower, I've done nothing physical

with the top part of the hat.

If I do it even more, which is the way he used to wear it.

So you've got, that's appearing to look even lower,

this is increasing.

You may not like the look, doesn't matter,

but that's what you're trying to achieve.

The hat should not overtake the personality

who's wearing it.

Unless he wants to, the color, poof, you know.

- I say, is it going to be all night?

- I used to work at Lehman Brothers as a chauffer,

and the building outside, we was going there,

and we found it, nobody can go inside.

And it was about 5,000 people was standing outside.

And we finded out, Lehman went bankrupt.

In 2008, the month was November 2008.

And my wages was docked, but end of the day, I got it back.

I hold their car, because I was driving this,

and it was worth 135,000 pounds, and I hold it,

say my wages was docked about 15,000 pounds.

I said until I get paid, I'm not returning the car.

It was locked in that garage.

It was locked about three months.

They couldn't get it, because we were using

my home address in London, they were searching over there,

they couldn't found out where is the car.

So when they decided to pay me, I said as soon

as I saw my money, your car is in the office.

Of course I have a dream about curry, because of my dream,

I wanted to be one day a business tycoon, that's my dream.

I wanted to put my business everywhere in the world,

like say, at the moment, we had done one in Dubai.

Next one we are thinking to do in Melbourne, Australia.

And two weeks back, I was in Madrid to see a place.

So my mission is like to carry it,

I want to put it every corner of the world,

my place, as a storefront.

Everybody wants to know, who is this place?

This is the only fascinating thing, I like it,

because I always, when I was younger,

like eight nine years old,

my mission was only to be a pilot.

But my dad says, "You want to be a pilot?"

I said, "When I grow up, I couldn't become a pilot."

But I said to my dad, "I'm a pilot,

because I'm creating the curry."

Rather than riding on airplanes, I'm riding on curries.

So I teach people, and I'm proud of myself,

I'm a pilot, I can control everyone.

Old days, like when my dad started in 1960s, those days,

they made the masala, first, in popular Indian style way.

But when the English people came in for eat,

they goes, "No, this is too hot."

Then they put sugar in it.

No, that's not tasty.

Then they put coconut in, they said it's not tasty.

Then they put some cream in, then oh it's too white,

then they put some coloring to make it look nicer.

So then they put little bit almond, little bit sultanas,

then they say, "Oh, that's good taste!"

Like this, English people always eat sweet stuff,

so they love something with a sweet in it.

And this is another assistant, all of them are my crews.

I got another two, they off.

Where is Luke?

Tell him to come down.

We've got an Englishman who's been working also here.

- Luke! Come down here!

- That's all my crews.

But he is my assistant, that's second assistant,

that's third assistant, and is our great

chef from English place.

- Hi!

- He's a Katie.

But we're trying to make him like Indian chef,

and one day he'll become Indian chef.

Yes, it's already working.

- Yeah, sort of, hardly.

- But he loves korma.

- Yeah, chicken korma.

- And masalas.

- Yeah, yeah.

- Okay guys, you can go.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

- Thank you, my man!

When I came in this area, I start this game,

with the restaurant craze.

And they invited me for awards.

Each time I go, always success, always win I win I win.

So far I win 20 awards.

- Yeah, I love going to the seaside,

especially in the summer.

And sometimes after school, get a take away from here,

and just go and sit on the beach, and it's really nice,

because you feel like it's still light,

it's still warm, and you know, you're on the beach.

What more could you want?

The troops were at the beaches, at Downkirk,

and they had to be evacuated very quickly,

because of the Germans coming in from the back.

And the plea was put out to rescue,

and this was a sort of turning point,

because people rallied, and it was the ordinary people in

England that took their boats across to help the soldiers.

Seven of the lay people lost their lives out

rescuing the people from the Dunkirk beaches.

Rain's coming in now, we get the rain coming

in normally from the west, which is this way.

- Then I decided I would spend the rest of my days,

hopefully back in the UK, and I came back

to my mother's property, and I started off

at Lloyd's Bank Westcliff, which was just

a branch on the main street here.

Within a year, I kept with Lloyd's, but they

had started a department called Access Department.

People were given access cards in the early 1970s,

credit cards, and then that was like working

for a department of the bank, and it suited me quite a lot.

And I was within a mile or two of walking to work.

And I took early retirement in about 1991,

and they gave you a reasonable pension,

and they gave you a modest lump sum,

which I could make use of.

And overall, I think because I wasn't very adaptable

in work, I found that the bank suited me.

They didn't ask you to, in my case anyway,

to do too many obscure things that I would

find difficult in adapting.

So I look back on my working life as suiting me,

whereas it wouldn't necessarily suit others.

As far as South End is concerned, I did join

the South End Astronomical Society,

which brought me up to date with a lot

of the things that are going on space.

They screen the films that have been taken by space probes,

and go into detail as to the kind of work

that is carried on by the people that pick up

the samples from places like the Moon.

So I'm not going to this society at the moment,

I find that a little bit of a strain on the eyes.

But I definitely take out books from the library.

- Well there's a particular shape of hat

that's worn between South End and the outskirts of London,

particularly into London and Convent Garden,

around that way, and that's actually the baker boy cap,

or in America it's known as the newsboy.

In Scotland, it's known as an eight piece,

partly because it has a little button on top

that has segments through, one to eight.

And they start in various widths.

In local communities, you worked in the docks,

Tilbury Docks, Covent Garden, the fruit market,

the flower market, the meat market,

where they were carrying and transporting,

they were porters, really, of some description,

carrying these cargoes of goods on their head.

The button would stop the box hurting their head,

because it had a little button to sort

of take the pressure off the head.

And they could stack three or four, carry it quite easily.

Obviously, if it's drippy flowers in the Covent Garden,

and you had a narrow baker boy,

and those drips went down your neck from four o'clock

in the morning till seven, you made sure

the next day you were dry.

So you had a wider shaped baker boy.

But you didn't go to a trilby hat, as such,

because that was middle class,

you were working class, and you knew your place.

You need some architecture underneath to hold the width out,

otherwise it just collapses.

This first came out around about the 1850s,

and it got synonymous with the potato famine

in Europe and Ireland, and the Irish,

hence the Donegal tweed, went off

to the New World to seek their fortune.

Oh yeah, well I'll start at the left-hand side.

There's a chauffer cap for the

professional driver these days.

There's the wedding parties, emcee work,

prom nightS, bring it up to date, really.

Various colors, it's the sense of authority,

it's the sense of trust, so the uniform imparts

that sort of, and the cap just finishes it off, really.

The top hat and the cane, it's regarded

as an upper echelon sort of hat.

The upper echelons in the landed people,

and the people who have got the houses and country.

But the ascot in particular.

There are certain places, i.e. the Queen's Royal Enclosure,

you cannot enter without a top hat for the day.

So within hats, there's exclusions

and admittance wearing the right hat.

Straw boater, well, that's another one.

In this particular country, really,

it's Oxford and Cambridge, punting on the river.

Henley, it's the Henley Regatta, is again,

a very strong sort of hat.

Originates somewhere around about Nelson's days,

where the sailors wore the straw boater, without the band

of course, but tarred to make them waterproof.

The colored bowler for the drummer who wants to hold it all

together, Keith Moon type, that's his forte really.

Getting the attention of the female admirers at the front,

and the chap who's holding it all together

is the beater of the group, is the drummer,

and he's saying, "Look at me, I'm here, please."

- Well, I'd like to, when I'm older,

I want to be a footballer, a designer,

a inventor, a chef, a artist, and that's it.

Um, London?

I actually think London's busier than South End,

because there's more people,

and London's the catch-all of England, but South End isn't.

So I actually think it's bigger.

And it's different, because it's not near

the seaside that much, and South End is.

And if there is such a thing as a seaside in London,

then I have never been.

They make sandcastles, or they swim in the sea,

or they just go to basically a park and chill out.

The sea is blue, and it goes waving through the sounds.

Well, I think it comes from the other side,

and it goes to the other side sometimes,

but sometimes I think it's the opposite.

- We have a high tide, and then we have,

six hours later, a low tide,

and the tide goes out across mud flats,

and these are full of birds during the winter months.

We get quite a lot of egrets,

but the geese come in in skeins, which look wonderful,

they come and feed on the eelgrass

on the marshes which are at lea.

And they come in with the tide,

and they go out with the tide.

When the tide is out, it goes out for,

probably a mile and a half.

- It's the moon.

The reason we have the tide is to do with the moon,

and I can't really go into much detail.

As I child, I probably didn't think

of the water as the estuary, I always thought

of it as a big sea, as if it just went on and on,

as if you were abroad somewhere,

and it went to another country.

I often got confused that that was France and not Kate,

as a child.

My first thing I see are the flats

that are too tall, that I don't know how

they got planning for, which have sat there,

unused and not finished for about five years.

You've got a lot of cargo ships going past.

You can see lot better, over in Canvey,

I don't know if you've been over to Canvey.

- When I was a kid, I was in the East End,

I come from a family of dockers.

And all my family were, well, you know,

not all straight, you know.

And my dad was docker.

And when I went back to London, when I was about,

when we done a gig in London it was last year,

you remember that one?

South London.

- At the Empire, I was upset that day,

and I just trace my roots 'round here,

and I knock on me aunt's door.

Where's me cousin, oh one's in prison,

one's here, one's there.

It's just like every time I went back

there looking for family, I got,

you know, they're not,

I'm glad I actually got away from the East End

when I did as a young kid, and come here.

I mean, Huey Lewis and the News

is very close friend of ours from San Francisco,

and he's been to Canvey several times.

- Gayle.

Bob Gayle, of course.

- Yeah, I met him again, well he used

to hang out with us before he was,

and we would do this thing,

I was with Ryan Comedy in Ireland, and his big house,

I used to walk down.

And remember that man he was on about in Louie Louie?

Well the house he was on about was my dad's house,

because he crashed out there one night

and we drank a bottle of brandy.

It all goes back a long ways.

- The '70s music scene that was in existence

was pretty much glam rock,

was the stuff that was in the charts at the time,

sweet rocksy music, that kind of over the top,

high dresses, fairly kind of poofy songs in many ways.

Lots of makeup, lots of makeup, lots of long hair.

Hair down to you ass, and flares,

and a load of sparkly shoes.

Whereas the Feel Goods broke that completely.

We were just a little band kicking around Canvey.

When the tide's low, it is quite prison-like.

We're below sea level, it's 45,000 people live here.

It's only 40 minutes to the city,

so something like 12,000 people a day go up to the city,

work in banking, shipping, insurance,

all the white collar stuff.

And then also around here,

we're loaded up with big factories.

Within 20 miles there's 600 factories here.

Big ones, small ones, old tractor plant,

gin manufactory places, you name it, it's made here.

So the blue collar workers are all in work.

And so, very industrious, they work hard, they play hard.

I mean we played to hundreds of people on a nightly level,

and it happened when we got a genuine response

from the audience, on a nightly basis,

and what the band was projecting on stage

was very well appreciated.

Whereas the gigs we would play around Canvey Island then,

we were just playing the local pubs,

we were just the background music.

So we knew there was a spark there,

and that spark came from here.

We came back, everyone decided to have a go at it.

There was a scene that was happening in London then,

called the pub rock scene.

These were predominantly fairly hip pubs,

but they were free entrance to the public,

and a few bands, quite a few bands,

got on this kind of a merry go round

that was going in the pub rock scene.

And there were Doug's Deluxe, Eggs Over Easy,

Britishy Swartz Band, the Feel Goods, of course,

Eddie and the Hot Rods at a bit of a later date.

And all were doing these gigs in these

different pubs in London.

The Exeter, which was over Lit Pier,

Lord Nelson, Holloway Road, the Hope and Anchor,

which was in Upper Street, the Newlands Tavern,

which is in South London, it was quite a circuit.

Winter Castle, over near Acton.

But it became a big hit.

The audiences were actually quite trendy,

and it's actually being written that Lady Di

in her younger days used to come to see the Feel Goods

when she was a young scallywag sharing with her flatmates.

She mentioned this to a few of her press then,

I have not made this up, really.

- Before, I'd already been touring with the Feel Goods,

and the Hot Rods, for a few years.

But there was a place in London, the Roundhouse,

a friend of ours, John Kurd,

used to put Sunday gigs on there.

It was alright when Keith Christmas and Henry Cower,

and Arthur Brown with the flaming hat played there.

- Tangerine Dream.

- Yeah, running around with dirty toenails and acid,

things in there.

All of a sudden, I got called in to do

this band called The Ramones.

I kind of worked with Flaming Groovies the year before,

and then The Ramones come along, and Talking Heads,

and all of a sudden hippies weren't allowed on stage,

all these bands.

They were mad, they were absolutely mental.

I done the little clubs.

One week the Jam were doing the Red Carey Hens,

and three months later, Hammond's Pavilion.

And that's how quick bands moved in them days.

Now The Ramones supported the Feel Goods.

- Then in '74 they went bottom-line in New York.

In the audience were some very high flyers,

Dylan, and who's the artist guy, blonde.

- Andy Warhol. - Andy Warhol.

- Right, and many movers and shakers

from the whole Blondie scene.

If you've got an imagination, when you go to the South,

and you go to Louisiana and to Alabama

and to all these coastal places, it's very very similar.

New Jersey is actual comparison, I think, there is to Essex.

Because New Jersey, along with Essex,

doesn't have that New York flash to it.

What we are here is a service county to London.

With regard to the energy that comes out of this area,

which is high, Essex people, South End people,

Canvey people, are doers.

They do not mess around, They get on their bike,

they're fearless travelers,

and they will chase whatever project they're on

to the other side of the Earth and back.

And I often ask myself, where does this come from?

Where does all this energy, which is crazy,

a lot of talent out of this area, Parham,

Mickey Jap, uh, Eddie and the Hot Rods, The Feel Goods.

These bands, that is a lot of bands

to come out of quite a small area, quite small communities.

One of my theories with this is purely

is we grow up with the energy force

of the tide coming up and down twice a day.

The force of the flood comes up,

then you got the ebb, falls away.

Then, 12 hours later, she's back on the flood.

An hour and six minutes on,

that's the way the tidal charts work.

And the levels do go up and down,

but we won't confuse ourselves with that.

- It's nice, but what about if you,

because he doesn't wear a hat usually

- And a typical question is, everyone

is wearing a hat, or is there?

And then when you look deeper into it,

there is a hat, maybe one, maybe two been

taken off by the comedian behind him,

just so his bald pate is showing.

Everyone wearing a hat, because if you didn't

wear a hat in those days, you caught a cold,

you didn't work.

But the type of hat being worn is none of those

I mentioned previously.

The baker boy had a button on it.

Because they were near the edge of the Thames,

they were lighterman, and lighterman didn't need

a button on their head, they weren't carrying anything,

they were just doing duties on the Thames,

keeping themselves warm during the night,

during the day, during the ups and downs on the river.

There are these old iron structures

from World War Two,

and put there for the kind of welcoming committee

for the Luftwaffe and as they came in from Germany.

So they were basically the first port of defense.

How well that could describe our life,

we sing for the cross.