Talk:Noel "Razor" Smith

Noel Smith
Noel Smith is actually Irish. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.65.2.139 (talk) 15:23, 8 March 2013 (UTC)


 * No? His parents may have been Irish immigrants, but Smith was born in England and definitely considers himself English, and in his books he comes across as particularly proud of being cockney.
 * "It’s said a cockney is somebody who was born within the sound of Bow Bells, and some people believe this refers to the area of Bow in the East End of London. The saying actually refers to the bells of St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside. There was a church on this site over a thousand years ago, and later versions were destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and then bombed by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz of 1941. The bells of St Mary-le-Bow fell silent on 13 June 1940 and didn’t ring again until 1961, therefore during this time no ‘true’ cockney could be born. I was born in the old Charing Cross Hospital on the Strand on 24 December 1960, as they were transporting the new bells to St Mary-le-Bow, and I like to think that if those bells made any sound at all during this time then I am possibly the only true cockney born in the twenty-one years that the bells were otherwise silent. Perhaps that’s why I’ve always liked rhyming slang."
 * Smith, Noel 'Razor'. The Criminal Alphabet: An A-Z of Prison Slang (pp. 3-4) Gangway Ghost (talk) 23:17, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Death of son
Joe Smith committed suicide. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.143.239.144 (talk) 11:11, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

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