We used the toothpaste all the time when we were kids, same germs an all, loved the taste,
do you remember.....?
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KAGOOLS....remember them in the 80's?
ya could fold em up and stick in in your bag
trouble with them was you still got ****ed wet through and the things stuck to ya!!!
do they still do them?
We always had to take a kagoul onn school trips. We hated wearing them though. They looked horrible and had a plastic lining that made you all sweaty.
that was in my Harry Lime days.
KAGOOLS....remember them in the 80's?
ya could fold em up and stick in in your bag
trouble with them was you still got ****ed wet through and the things stuck to ya!!!
do they still do them?
When I was thirteen we were taking my school friend Widdup water ski-ing on Windermere, in the summer holidays.
My mum phoned his rather posh mum (they lived in Wiswell, and had a study, so they were posh to us,) and told her he would probably need a 'kag'.
Not knowing what a 'kag' was, they apparently drove all the way to Skipton, to a boating shop, thinking it was some specialist equipment, only to find out a kag was a nylon anorak, that folds up to a handy size, and is pefect if it starts to pour down in the rainy Lake District.
I've got the giants causeway version of it hanging in my hallway. The only thing is it looks more like the plastic coats that were the fashion in the 80s.
Just thinking about shops in town I remember the blue dahlia cafe on Dutton St, Kenyons cafe on broadway, near to there I think there was something called the golden kitchen, Dellstar Travel agents on broadway next door to some kind of d i y shop, there was Boots on Blackburn road, which I can remember had kind of metal circles stick to its glass doors, EJ Rileys toy shop and Wardleworths on Little Blackburn road, Babyland top of Warner St on corner, Fowlers fabrics and a cafe which I cant remember the name of opposite town hall. Further up little blackburn road was Pendle travel agents and a fent shop with a very old man in it. There was the womble inn opposite yorkshire bank which sold chicken butties and stuff, Tiger lilies clothes shop in what is now Baileys on church st. Just above the bus station on the right hand side going up was a large ladies clothes shop but I've forgotten the name of it.
Just remembered some more - Pauls for school uniforms on little blackburn road, classic cinema (which always seemed to smell of cats), Marys music opposite hope and anchor, record exchange at the top of little blackburn road, really good hot potatoes with butter on in little bags from a stall on the market, ali's stall which I think was clothes and Relayvision on the corner of broadway. I can remember the huge car park on what is now the arndale with the toilets in that space age building.
When Broadway was a sunken garden, I used to sit with my mum and have an ice lollie from the cinema.
When the market was in Peel Street
The UCP Tripe shop on Blackburn Road
The New Era (when it first opened) and the dances
Holidays with the Youth Club (Austria)
Mods driving up and down Blackburn Road outside the Market hall
Sitting and listening to Radio Luxemburg on the bench at the bottom of Barnfield Street
Big Ben anyone know what that was??
When the market was in Peel Street
The UCP Tripe shop on Blackburn Road
The New Era (when it first opened) and the dances
Holidays with the Youth Club (Austria)
Mods driving up and down Blackburn Road outside the Market hall
Sitting and listening to Radio Luxemburg on the bench at the bottom of Barnfield Street
Big Ben anyone know what that was??
I remember a lot of the Accy stuff mentioned on here. I also used to sit on the 'big hill' on Barnfield st listening to radio Luxemburg. I also 'grew up' on number 1 stall and used to be one of the itinerants who frequented the copper kettle cafe I was 14 at the time. Lol
This Mod didnt have a car or a scooter in those days, spent too much money on clothes. It was always bus or train.
quite a few Mods did though Al,remember wrapping one or two of the long mirrors over the handlebars.
I remember meeting others at the No 1 stall, a lot of the lads used to play snooker at the Elite club? think it was that. Used to sit for hours in the Blue Dahlia much to parents alarm. Copper kettle another haunt.
The walled area in front of the market hall was the deck where everyone met up at the weekend.
Used to frequent the pub that was where the old cinema used to be on Broadway, packed to the doors most nights, then up to the pub on Church Street or I think one at the bottom near the viaduct?
The walled area in front of the market hall was the deck where everyone met up at the weekend.
Used to frequent the pub that was where the old cinema used to be on Broadway, packed to the doors most nights, then up to the pub on Church Street or I think one at the bottom near the viaduct?
OK then lets all met on the Deck. Another Saturday Night and I aint got nobody, got some money cause I just got paid, how I wish I had someone to talk to Im in an awful way.
Anticipation of who you would see, hoping that it would not rain, making plans, new friends then new places a long way from home and very young, it seems like only yesterday.