It Was 40 Years Ago Today - The Summer Of Love - Page 2

mallard · 05-06-2007, 23:43

Did you enjoy your self then ,because you can not turn the clock back now.

cashman · 05-06-2007, 23:49

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Originally Posted by mallard

Did you enjoy your self then ,because you can not turn the clock back now.

enjoyed myself then, enjoy myself now. never could tell the time.

maxwell silver · 06-06-2007, 09:24

Sadly it passed me by as i was busy playing footy on the rec,riding my bike,playing japs & commandoes,climbing trees & learning the english language(i'd just moved back over from Brazil,so could only speak portugese),oh & being amazed at this 'baby sister' thing we'd aquired

Still a lot of that summer of love lives on in my record collection.

garinda · 06-06-2007, 09:40

Hyndburn doesn't seem to have been a hot bed for long haired, kaftan wearing, flower children.

When I was at primary school in the mid seventies, a young teacher by the name of Peter Britcliffe, whose hair was suspiciously long, perhaps turned on, tuned in, and dropped out, in the Summer of Love.

Wynonie Harris · 06-06-2007, 11:07

Don't think so - by the mid-70's, every bloke was wearing his hair long, even bank clerks.

It would be nice to "out" Peter as a former flower child, but I seem to remember that he was not a member of any of the three great teenage tribes (hairies, mods and rockers) that inhabited downtown Accy back then.

maxwell silver · 06-06-2007, 11:45

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

Don't think so - by the mid-70's, every bloke was wearing his hair long, even bank clerks.

It would be nice to "out" Peter as a former flower child, but I seem to remember that he was not a member of any of the three great teenage tribes (hairies, mods and rockers) that inhabited downtown Accy back then.

Bit of a 'square' then was he

Obviously planning for his political future back then,did'nt want any skeletons falling out of the closet from his days as a bit of a wild child.

cashman · 06-06-2007, 14:34

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

Don't think so - by the mid-70's, every bloke was wearing his hair long, even bank clerks.

It would be nice to "out" Peter as a former flower child, but I seem to remember that he was not a member of any of the three great teenage tribes (hairies, mods and rockers) that inhabited downtown Accy back then.

noway was he, sure either wyn, or me, would have remembered, he certainly wasn't a face about town.

Wynonie Harris · 06-06-2007, 15:29

Can't honestly remember him putting in an appearance anywhere at that time - the Deck, Dahlia, Olympus, Disco Club, Jazz Club etc. Perhaps he was a regular face at the Young Conservatives, although I wouldn't know about that!

chrissy · 08-06-2007, 15:52

That was a truley remarkable time, we used to paint flowers on our faces and wear bells on our shoes. What a brilliant time it was to grow up in our teens

MargaretR · 23-06-2007, 14:53

There is a Summer Of Love festival going on in Lyme Regis this weekend. I know because my son is playing there and has spent a lot of time this week in rehearsal learning a set of 60's music. The band will be dressed in hippy gear - wish I could have gone.

cashman · 23-06-2007, 20:41

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Originally Posted by margaret@rothwell5.f

There is a Summer Of Love festival going on in Lyme Regis this weekend. I know because my son is playing there and has spent a lot of time this week in rehearsal learning a set of 60's music. The band will be dressed in hippy gear - wish I could have gone.

that does sound the biz, not a bad place either.