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[Des]

Hi Deniz, those vacant lots, as the Americans would call them were our football pitches. They have all been built on now. Funny to think you were playing around there as a kid the same time I was.

We used to swing out from the top balcony on those flats and haul ourselves up on to the flat roof and play there. If our mothers had seen how we got up there they would gone into hysterics. What risks we took as kids! Our flat was the second down from top on the left.

To the left of the flats, just out of the picture was the Roundel Club where we used to go swimming every day in between lizard hunting expeditions with our home made catapults. Every kid in Cyprus had one of those, do you remember? There was not one surviving street light in the area by the time we left Cyprus!

In the days before it was compulsary to be gay we used to see strange men walking along holding hands with flowers behind their ears. That was a sign, don't ya know! Greek men liked to grow the fingernail on their little finger real long as well.We always thought that was a bit effeminate. I think it was a class thing to show that that guy was not a manual worker.

Can you remember a small walled cemetary over near the river? That was a favourite hunting ground of ours.

[denizaksulu]

Hi Deniz, those vacant lots, as the Americans would call them were our football pitches. They have all been built on now. Funny to think you were playing around there as a kid the same time I was.

We used to swing out from the top balcony on those flats and haul ourselves up on to the flat roof and play there. If our mothers had seen how we got up there they would gone into hysterics. What risks we took as kids! Our flat was the second down from top on the left.

To the left of the flats, just out of the picture was the Roundel Club where we used to go swimming every day in between lizard hunting expeditions with our home made catapults. Every kid in Cyprus had one of those, do you remember? There was not one surviving street light in the area by the time we left Cyprus!

In the days before it was compulsary to be gay we used to see strange men walking along holding hands with flowers behind their ears. That was a sign, don't ya know! Greek men liked to grow the fingernail on their little finger real long as well.We always thought that was a bit effeminate. I think it was a class thing to show that that guy was not a manual worker.

Can you remember a small walled cemetary over near the river? That was a favourite hunting ground of ours.

Hi Des, I was 18 in 1963. I left the catapults in the village. Now I know who kept on smashing the street lights.

The only walled cemetary ,near a river that I remember and saw last year was the Armenian Cemetery. Near the Old General Hospital, just past Ledra Palace.

I am not convinced on the gay issue. Friends would walk together with arm over each others shoulders and some holding hands and I assure you that we were not gay. When I and some friends met in London when going to college, we did get strange looks from the Brits, then we stopped the habit. With the GCs it might have been the same. All I know was that it was frowned upon in those days. There would not have been too much open signs exhibited.

When I get to work I will study the photos using a data projector and will comment further.

Take care

[halil]

Lastly we lived on the Turkish side just behind the Ledra Palace ......

.... Our last home in Nicosia was just over on the Turkish side near the river.

.....On the Turkish side it hadn't really changed at all. I wandered .

A more acceptable term for what I think you mean, is to call it the "Turkish Occupied Side" ....

I'll let you off for now 'cos you are new

....As kids we were well aware of the tensions at the time...1960-63....

Can you expand on this please?

What tensions where you aware of as a teenager? .....(in what was supposed to have been the most lovey-dovey part of our history, which a few TCs are demanding we go back to).

He is talking of the years 1963 or thereabouts and not after 1974. PLEASE NOTE!!

Deniz;
she also knows , the wall in Nicosia was built up between 63 and 64.
Nicosia was divided in two sectors since 1963. İt doesn't suit her . that's why they never likes us when we are talking about 63 .

[halil]

Hi Deniz, those vacant lots, as the Americans would call them were our football pitches. They have all been built on now. Funny to think you were playing around there as a kid the same time I was.

We used to swing out from the top balcony on those flats and haul ourselves up on to the flat roof and play there. If our mothers had seen how we got up there they would gone into hysterics. What risks we took as kids! Our flat was the second down from top on the left.

To the left of the flats, just out of the picture was the Roundel Club where we used to go swimming every day in between lizard hunting expeditions with our home made catapults. Every kid in Cyprus had one of those, do you remember? There was not one surviving street light in the area by the time we left Cyprus!

In the days before it was compulsary to be gay we used to see strange men walking along holding hands with flowers behind their ears. That was a sign, don't ya know! Greek men liked to grow the fingernail on their little finger real long as well.We always thought that was a bit effeminate. I think it was a class thing to show that that guy was not a manual worker.

Can you remember a small walled cemetary over near the river? That was a favourite hunting ground of ours.

Hi Des, I was 18 in 1963. I left the catapults in the village. Now I know who kept on smashing the street lights.

The only walled cemetary ,near a river that I remember and saw last year was the Armenian Cemetery. Near the Old General Hospital, just past Ledra Palace.

I am not convinced on the gay issue. Friends would walk together with arm over each others shoulders and some holding hands and I assure you that we were not gay. When I and some friends met in London when going to college, we did get strange looks from the Brits, then we stopped the habit. With the GCs it might have been the same. All I know was that it was frowned upon in those days. There would not have been too much open signs exhibited.

When I get to work I will study the photos using a data projector and will comment further.

Take care

Deniz,
here is the last picture of the Armenian Cemetery Near the Leadra .
Now Armenian Cypriots are arguing with Roc that They promised them they were going to repair it since 2005 nothing happened .rest of the news is at below link.
http://www.kibrisgazetesi.com/index.php ... c_Haberler

[denizaksulu]

Hi Deniz, those vacant lots, as the Americans would call them were our football pitches. They have all been built on now. Funny to think you were playing around there as a kid the same time I was.

We used to swing out from the top balcony on those flats and haul ourselves up on to the flat roof and play there. If our mothers had seen how we got up there they would gone into hysterics. What risks we took as kids! Our flat was the second down from top on the left.

To the left of the flats, just out of the picture was the Roundel Club where we used to go swimming every day in between lizard hunting expeditions with our home made catapults. Every kid in Cyprus had one of those, do you remember? There was not one surviving street light in the area by the time we left Cyprus!

In the days before it was compulsary to be gay we used to see strange men walking along holding hands with flowers behind their ears. That was a sign, don't ya know! Greek men liked to grow the fingernail on their little finger real long as well.We always thought that was a bit effeminate. I think it was a class thing to show that that guy was not a manual worker.

Can you remember a small walled cemetary over near the river? That was a favourite hunting ground of ours.

Hi Des, I was 18 in 1963. I left the catapults in the village. Now I know who kept on smashing the street lights.

The only walled cemetary ,near a river that I remember and saw last year was the Armenian Cemetery. Near the Old General Hospital, just past Ledra Palace.

I am not convinced on the gay issue. Friends would walk together with arm over each others shoulders and some holding hands and I assure you that we were not gay. When I and some friends met in London when going to college, we did get strange looks from the Brits, then we stopped the habit. With the GCs it might have been the same. All I know was that it was frowned upon in those days. There would not have been too much open signs exhibited.

When I get to work I will study the photos using a data projector and will comment further.

Take care

Deniz,
here is the last picture of the Armenian Cemetery Near the Leadra .
Now Armenian Cypriots are arguing with Roc that They promised them they were going to repair it since 2005 nothing happened .rest of the news is at below link.
http://www.kibrisgazetesi.com/index.php ... c_Haberler

Yes Halil, I read it the other day. I could not believe it. Thats wy I asked GR if it was true. When we met at the mentioned car park, I could not help looking through the railings and reminiscing about the time when we would study the masonry and style of the tombs. Its sad. One thing that was mentioned (when discussing with school mates)was that the Armenian religious leaders(for want of a proper word) were interred in the sitting position. We came to that conclusion on the sight of the much taller tombs. I dont know if our asumptions were correct. Maybe Kafenes can fill the gaps in our knowledge!

I apologise for trying to get you banned from the forum Halil.

[Oracle]

Lastly we lived on the Turkish side just behind the Ledra Palace ......

.... Our last home in Nicosia was just over on the Turkish side near the river.

.....On the Turkish side it hadn't really changed at all. I wandered .

A more acceptable term for what I think you mean, is to call it the "Turkish Occupied Side" ....

I'll let you off for now 'cos you are new

....As kids we were well aware of the tensions at the time...1960-63....

Can you expand on this please?

What tensions where you aware of as a teenager? .....(in what was supposed to have been the most lovey-dovey part of our history, which a few TCs are demanding we go back to).

He is talking of the years 1963 or thereabouts and not after 1974. PLEASE NOTE!!

Deniz;
she also knows , the wall in Nicosia was built up between 63 and 64.
Nicosia was divided in two sectors since 1963. İt doesn't suit her . that's why they never likes us when we are talking about 63 .

Halil .... please look above, highlighted in red ... The man was talking about 1960 -1963.

Get your facts right propaganda merchant before you pass judgement on me.

[halil]

Hi Deniz, those vacant lots, as the Americans would call them were our football pitches. They have all been built on now. Funny to think you were playing around there as a kid the same time I was.

We used to swing out from the top balcony on those flats and haul ourselves up on to the flat roof and play there. If our mothers had seen how we got up there they would gone into hysterics. What risks we took as kids! Our flat was the second down from top on the left.

To the left of the flats, just out of the picture was the Roundel Club where we used to go swimming every day in between lizard hunting expeditions with our home made catapults. Every kid in Cyprus had one of those, do you remember? There was not one surviving street light in the area by the time we left Cyprus!

In the days before it was compulsary to be gay we used to see strange men walking along holding hands with flowers behind their ears. That was a sign, don't ya know! Greek men liked to grow the fingernail on their little finger real long as well.We always thought that was a bit effeminate. I think it was a class thing to show that that guy was not a manual worker.

Can you remember a small walled cemetary over near the river? That was a favourite hunting ground of ours.

Hi Des, I was 18 in 1963. I left the catapults in the village. Now I know who kept on smashing the street lights.

The only walled cemetary ,near a river that I remember and saw last year was the Armenian Cemetery. Near the Old General Hospital, just past Ledra Palace.

I am not convinced on the gay issue. Friends would walk together with arm over each others shoulders and some holding hands and I assure you that we were not gay. When I and some friends met in London when going to college, we did get strange looks from the Brits, then we stopped the habit. With the GCs it might have been the same. All I know was that it was frowned upon in those days. There would not have been too much open signs exhibited.

When I get to work I will study the photos using a data projector and will comment further.

Take care

Deniz,
here is the last picture of the Armenian Cemetery Near the Leadra .
Now Armenian Cypriots are arguing with Roc that They promised them they were going to repair it since 2005 nothing happened .rest of the news is at below link.
http://www.kibrisgazetesi.com/index.php ... c_Haberler

Yes Halil, I read it the other day. I could not believe it. Thats wy I asked GR if it was true. When we met at the mentioned car park, I could not help looking through the railings and reminiscing about the time when we would study the masonry and style of the tombs. Its sad. One thing that was mentioned (when discussing with school mates)was that the Armenian religious leaders(for want of a proper word) were interred in the sitting position. We came to that conclusion on the sight of the much taller tombs. I dont know if our asumptions were correct. Maybe Kafenes can fill the gaps in our knowledge!

I apologise for trying to get you banned from the forum Halil.

Deniz,
İ can take the last condition of the cemetery picture with my own camera and put it here . News is correct till i read this news and saw the picture of it i didn't know that it was Armenian cemetery . Everytime i past from the leadra gate i see this cemetery and i was wondern why GC's side doesn't repair this one . İt looks very old and historic.

[denizaksulu]

Lastly we lived on the Turkish side just behind the Ledra Palace ......

.... Our last home in Nicosia was just over on the Turkish side near the river.

.....On the Turkish side it hadn't really changed at all. I wandered .

[color=red]A more acceptable term for what I think you mean, is to call it the "Turkish Occupied Side" .... [/color]
I'll let you off for now 'cos you are new

....As kids we were well aware of the tensions at the time...1960-63....

Can you expand on this please?

What tensions where you aware of as a teenager? .....(in what was supposed to have been the most lovey-dovey part of our history, which a few TCs are demanding we go back to).

He is talking of the years 1963 or thereabouts and not after 1974. PLEASE NOTE!!

Deniz;
she also knows , the wall in Nicosia was built up between 63 and 64.
Nicosia was divided in two sectors since 1963. İt doesn't suit her . that's why they never likes us when we are talking about 63 .

Halil .... please look above, highlighted in red ... The man was talking about 1960 -1963.

Get your facts right propaganda merchant before you pass judgement on me.

Phoenix mou. What is causing the confusion here is your use of the word 'Occupied'. Like what you call, 'Occupied Cyprus'. What Halil and I are saying is that it is wrong to call the Turkish sector of Nicosia 'Occupied' with the same meaning as 'Occupied Cyprus. In 1960 = 63 there was no 'occupied areas, just Turkish sectors and greek sectors, which merely indicated where the majority of each community lived. You had Turkish areas in Larnaka and Paphos too. I think you were far too young then, to understand the geography of the island prior to your being napalmed.

[purdey]

There was a large Turkish area in Limassol also,still there with a few Turkish Cypriots living there.

[denizaksulu]

Hi Deniz, those vacant lots, as the Americans would call them were our football pitches. They have all been built on now. Funny to think you were playing around there as a kid the same time I was.

We used to swing out from the top balcony on those flats and haul ourselves up on to the flat roof and play there. If our mothers had seen how we got up there they would gone into hysterics. What risks we took as kids! Our flat was the second down from top on the left.

To the left of the flats, just out of the picture was the Roundel Club where we used to go swimming every day in between lizard hunting expeditions with our home made catapults. Every kid in Cyprus had one of those, do you remember? There was not one surviving street light in the area by the time we left Cyprus!

In the days before it was compulsary to be gay we used to see strange men walking along holding hands with flowers behind their ears. That was a sign, don't ya know! Greek men liked to grow the fingernail on their little finger real long as well.We always thought that was a bit effeminate. I think it was a class thing to show that that guy was not a manual worker.

Can you remember a small walled cemetary over near the river? That was a favourite hunting ground of ours.

Hi Des, I was 18 in 1963. I left the catapults in the village. Now I know who kept on smashing the street lights.

The only walled cemetary ,near a river that I remember and saw last year was the Armenian Cemetery. Near the Old General Hospital, just past Ledra Palace.

I am not convinced on the gay issue. Friends would walk together with arm over each others shoulders and some holding hands and I assure you that we were not gay. When I and some friends met in London when going to college, we did get strange looks from the Brits, then we stopped the habit. With the GCs it might have been the same. All I know was that it was frowned upon in those days. There would not have been too much open signs exhibited.

When I get to work I will study the photos using a data projector and will comment further.

Take care

Deniz,
here is the last picture of the Armenian Cemetery Near the Leadra .
Now Armenian Cypriots are arguing with Roc that They promised them they were going to repair it since 2005 nothing happened .rest of the news is at below link.
http://www.kibrisgazetesi.com/index.php ... c_Haberler

Yes Halil, I read it the other day. I could not believe it. Thats wy I asked GR if it was true. When we met at the mentioned car park, I could not help looking through the railings and reminiscing about the time when we would study the masonry and style of the tombs. Its sad. One thing that was mentioned (when discussing with school mates)was that the Armenian religious leaders(for want of a proper word) were interred in the sitting position. We came to that conclusion on the sight of the much taller tombs. I dont know if our asumptions were correct. Maybe Kafenes can fill the gaps in our knowledge!

I apologise for trying to get you banned from the forum Halil.

Deniz,
İ can take the last condition of the cemetery picture with my own camera and put it here . News is correct till i read this news and saw the picture of it i didn't know that it was Armenian cemetery . Everytime i past from the leadra gate i see this cemetery and i was wondern why GC's side doesn't repair this one . İt looks very old and historic.

Yes Halil, it is sad. It is a Peoples Heritage too. But the GC goverment 'does no wrong'. Perhaps the new one will remedy the situation.