Good Old Days?
 

Residents living near Gatty Park, Church, sent a petition to Hynburn Council appealing for help against teenage yobs running riot in the park. Gangs of boys and girls, aged between 15 and 18, had been congregating in the park and their insolent antics, bad language, and general anti-social behaviour was so unbearable that councillors attempting to remonstrate with them were threatened with physical violence.



This was taken from the Observer's 50 years ago this week column. Though I think they are wrong about which council the residents wrote to, as Hyndburn Council wasn't formed until 1974.

It just shows you though, that all the bad press some young people get nowadays, is nothing new.

I wonder if these children grew up to be good, upstanding members of society? Perhaps some of them are members on here, and will perhaps tell us.;)

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50 years ago? well they aint solved the problem yet,there is still gangs of teenagers who congregate in the summer evenings there -some no problems some a damn nuisence.

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Gangs of boys and girls....? there were probably three of them!

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We still have problems with anti-social yobs, but I thought it is quite funny that people go on all the time how things aren't as good as 'the old days'. Looks like in this case they weren't.

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your eyes must be going margret;bamber gascoine i'm not,but i can count:)

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Who said times have changed? To think they were doing what we all have done at some point. As to weather they are now upstanding and members here would they admit it?:eek:

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:eek: Are you speaking from personal knowledge there Margaret? .... Was it you causing mahem in the park? ;) :D

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What 50 years ago......you were around then? I was but I was only little.
Then, three kids would be called a gang.

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No Tinks......not Gatty Park. Now if you'd said Bullough Park, well I WAS only 8......so I didn't know any bad language......and yes we did run around, but for goodness sake I thought that is what you did in the park.

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The gang must have been at least four strong, as it said boys and girls, both in the plural.;)

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I'll let you all know whether people become upstanding members when I have given up playing on parks ;)

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I'll remind you of that the next time I see you being pushed on the swings, lol. [Baby swings.;)]

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People forget the mischief and reputations that they had as children. I never liked Gatty and it was before my time, but if you read some of the comments that I have made in these reflective threads you will see I and others who will be nameless where never angles. Pig stealing, cow and chicken kidnapping, wilful damage, gang raids was amongst our childhood trades. I was a child, foolish and without fear of consequence. The only time we would come to heel is when PC Ball caught us and hit us hard, then our victims would kick our backsides if they got us, and our greatest fear our parents. But it would only last a few days and we would be at it again. I am not proud of my childhood actions, but I was a child seeing the world through a child’s eyes. I remember street fights between the big boy’s; the sky would be thick with sticks and stones at times. Times haven’t really change, we have. The media is much more intuitive, much keener to report the things that we as a society would want to keep hidden back then. What I don’t understand is when we were a kids we had nothing, no money, no high value toys, video games, TVs, record players. We had each other, pram wheels and cardboard boxes.

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There would be around ten of us, about seven lads and three girls, there where others but they were good.

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Can I have the wheels back you took from my pram please?

Mr Bad Boy.