You would have to have exceptional hearing to claim that New Maiden in South London was within the sound of Bow Bells, but this did not deter Alice Hodgkin (r), catering manager of Spillers Foods, New Maiden from organising a Cockney evening in aid of the RNLI. She invited the Tottenham Pearly King and Queen, Harry and Shirley Tongue (I) and South London RNLI regional organiser, Geoffrey Garrick (3rd I). They and the other guests had a right royal knees-up with star turns like the Kitchen Kuties (from the staff canteen), the Chelsea Pensioners' wheelchair dance and even the one-armed fiddler. Traditional fish and chips and jellied eels were on the menu and with the help of a grand auction of gifts, there was over £650 to show for Mrs Hodgkin's enterprise. photograph by courtesy of Surrey Comet..