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So maybe an early T-Rex or Slade song from 1971, Tony Blackburn’s
breakfast show then Johnnie walker on radio One, Les Crane from 1972, a
memory from CCF annual camp in 1973, Life on bastard mars played non stop
at Okehampton , Leek, Sennybridge, Folkestone, Catterick, Elton & Kiki
from the long, long hot summer of 1976, cold Saturdays at Hilsea with
Uriah Heep, amazing parties in Gosport, your first car, kiss, fight,
sports day, double maths with Ron Vearncombe, Browndown, Fell & Bottle,
The Pembroke, rugby, cricket, athletics at Alexandra park, model railway
club, Bleed for history, Neal H skipping lunch to copy down the radio One
(on 247 metres MW), carol services and carrying blue chairs down the high
street, The Dolphin, a quick fag in the bogs, Vic Hampton, Bomber, The
Duke of Buckingham, Cox, I want Cox, Hooting noises, flatulence, Leo
Sayer, Party fours, Players No 10, Macs shop with steak and onion pies at
7p each, Doreen Waterworth, Spike Aylemore, Excellent Specimen, No
jeering, hair must be neat, well groomed and not come down below the
collar, Bell record label, Gary Glitter, Sugar White, Lambrettas, Bukkake
films, David Moss-Bowpitt, Sutherland brothers and Quiver, Leek Light
Infantry, Podsols, Ranch House, Bedford Truck, Melody Maker, NME, Pink
Floyd, David Cassidy, Mary Cassidy, Blue Peter with Lesley Judd, The Stacey sisters, K-Tel
records, Smiths in Palmerston Road, afghan coats, HMV in commercial road,
flipping through Progressive, Rizla Wheatstraw, Spice island in Osborne
Road, HSB, Prize old Ale mixed with HSB(!), Shirt King, Tricorn, Pennine
way, fell and bottle, The Village, Hellraiser, D’artagnan (Marmion Road),
5 park drive, Fratton Park, Banned from the common, Billy manning’s, South
Parade Pier gigs, Nero’s, Joanna’s, Trolley buses, marina café, Southdown
buses, 139 to denmead, Blue Peter, Theatre Royal, Tommy on Portsdown hill,
tie-dye t-shirts, loons, Roxy Music, clogs, Bridge Tavern, Ice Cream vans
and Minis, the Pseudmuthian, Red Lions football, Gowerton, Esso Colts
trophy 1974, Welsh tour, beef pit, 20 Embassy, the day I met Marie, band
on the run, 12th man, breast suppressors, err scum, tank tops,
PHAGS film club, YASI 125’s, bivvy tents, Satchel’s Anglia, grip and
sleeping bag, M33, Lee Enfield .303’s, Arnie Stanton, Boris Schnabel’s
desk with Led Zeppelin inked on it, Fleetwood Mac, the eagles, chalking
desks, apple pie beds, twigs, gola try rugby boots, plastic Godzilla
mascots, dodgem, gnoming, grape treading holidays, Penistone-bird
alterations to the honours board, walking the Pennine way, my length mate
etc, 10 Cadets, Vic Hampton, Wishbone ash, Deep Purple, Free, Genesis,
Yes, Floyd, Barry Blue, The Monkees, Stuart Henry, Jimmy Saville’s old
record Club, Noel Edmonds breakfast Show, Radio One Road show at Southsea
common, smiley wanker miley, Radio Victory, Chris Ryder Disco Party,
Triumph Vitesse firing order, double diamond, Turner or Webb at Hilsea,
annual parade, Jasper in the glider, M27, Brickwoods, Mild at the Bridges
tavern, Cheese and onion rolls, Cowes week at the Folly, Bearded penis for
physics, prefects walk,
naval officers
greatcoats..........................
YOUR MEMORIES - WITH SOME DISCRETIONARY EDITING BY ME !
Porsche
911 owned by someone at school whose dad (an airline pilot) had died -
number OCT 6. He traded it in for a Lotus Esprit.
My Austin Healey Sprite - cost £140 from the Portsmouth Evening News
December 20th 1977, insurance cost £200.
Remembering now, all those year later what a stuck up bitch *****
********** was.
How much I hated The Avenue Lawn Tennis Club in Havant, but how much you
desire to belong.
My cat, Pippin who adopted us in 1970, and passed away in 1982.
Jumping up and down on a Royal Marines SRN6 hovercraft with Steve
Bartlett, and getting caught at Browndown camp. Same day as getting caught
smoking Consulates... good weekend that was, especially Steve farting all
night in the tent.
Learning to drive at Goodwood before I was 17, when it was a proper race
circuit and not inhabited by a bunch of chavvy City banker wankers
piss-bag types as per the Revival these days.
The upper school caretaker beating a pigeon to death outside the bogs
under form 3B. Nowadays he'd have some form of security check and be led
away to be tagged.
Being thin.
Thinking I knew everything.
Thinking back that I knew nothing.
Petrol being 35p a gallon.
Working in Havant petrol station in the summer of '76, being paid 18p an
hour, serving the owner of Marsh Plant in his Aston Martin.
Smelling 5 star fuel and using it - before the green tossers stuck their
oar in.
Driving around the Sussex lanes after 4 or 5 pints at night and never
being stopped.
Not having to wear a seat belt. Clunk click, Jimmy is it? **** off you
weirdo.
Realising how much, in retrospect, my parents loved me, and now knowing I
didn't love them back. Shit, what a tosser...
Flares
& hairstyles
Not
being aware that I wouldn't live for ever.
Phil Hakluyt's Party (the one where we behaved very badly)
Clackers
Unrideable bicycles
Judith
Stephenson's legs
The
party circuit pissing off countless parents as we learnt how to get
pissed, vomit and have sex!!
Falling
off Puch maxi going into Stanley St from Palmerston Rd.
A party in the gravel-pits just outside Chichester, not far from a mental
hospital.
A good mate who stood in my parents lounge for an eternity, wanting to
hold someone's hand to the Odeon, ABC or, knowing him, the Palace, and
being flatly refused.
Getting
my Mum to put flares in my jeans - big triangles of satin were best.
Working all the hours out the seafront for money to buy my next bike -
working with Ross, Pete, Nigel, Julian, Ian and Dave made it a pleasure,
and we had some laughs. Buying my BSA C15 for cash and being so proud of
it. Long hot summers. Jackie and Jacqui. Bike rides with my best friends.
Growing my hair as long as I could without getting into trouble at school.
Enjoying Art and French, but hating History and Geography. Wishing I had
gone to more concerts, and wondering why I never went to any of Phil's
legendary parties. Never doing enough revision for exams. Always getting
average marks and 'could try harders'.
SBJ's
parties, sailing club discos all along the coast, picking strawberries at
20p/hour
Brown Sugar - how come you taste so good. Thrashing Bryanston!!
Discovering, by way of friendship's) some of life's essentials - sex,
drugs, Rock'n'Roll, motorbikes and skiing.
I think
the one that stands out is being 14, looking 12 and somehow getting served
in pubs. Twenty six pence for a pint of scrumpy in the Florence, 28p in
the Borough Arms .. a fine juke box too.
Just
the best time of my life
Glam
Rock, 5th Formers abusing their Royals and Dock Martins on others waiting
patiently in the lunch queue, Mayfair magazine, Randall and Hopkirk
(deceased), Neil Thomas' parties, Anouska Hempel (actress who regularly
appeared on Call My Bluff), throwing live fireworks in the men's toilet
blocks on Southsea seafront (deeply ashamed now), collecting Southsea road
signs and displaying them in my cellar, playing cards in the cellar,
watching Pompey second bottom in the old 4th Division, inventing the
synthesizer (well having the electric hoover in the background while Union
Jack was performing, anyway), may cat Jimmy (named after Jimmy Greaves,
the best of days
Jan 1971 40k in Fratton park v arsenal Trebillcock equaliser last minute;
frank vine the farlington butcher getting free tickets and introducing
eoin hand, nicky Jennings, Norman piper, freed smith, Colin blant(!);
havant wednesday cricket team; first away game game at southampton (in the
archers road end c/o canon maples!) breaking the world 800m record after
milwall game;getting all my savings out to buy some scarlet loons and
starry fruit of the loom shirt then stepping proudly off bus on seafront
to be immediately abused by docker hughes type mush; loads of rugby;loads
of cricket; didn't like alcohol till 16; high school girls; waterlooville
convent school girls; neil nutting a boom; mike kemp getting lost after
streak at ken v's place and covered in blood asking local resident at 2am
for dr v (eminent pyschiatrist's) place; bottle and a half of sherry in
half hour after x pints of lager with p.a.r and kenny v; neil's whistling
beetle with dylan and thin lizzy; andy hunter;the pier on fire; the
teachers - some gr8 people mixed with one flew over the cuckoos nest -simon
falling into coma in additional maths and everyone thinking it was becos
ron v was so boring; surprisingly friendly girl with large chest on welsh
tour; ali c insisting she only went out with skinheads; formative
experiences in alverstoke;ash's moped and chris vdv's dad's goldwing;
trains & 148,143 and 31 buses; selling scrap metal; proper wide shoes and
stack heels; ccf uniform, browndown, dunc mason's afro in a net and beret,
jasper taking off; bedwell snr nicking the tuck shop cash till; getting
smacked in mouth for trying it on at kiki dee concert at guildhall during
sally d's party; all the guildhall concerts, pete hancock's parties and
pablo's legendary performance; hambledon cricket; waves of fantastic new
music; iris' cafe; coach trips to london; lunchtime breaks in the 6th
form; no computers and no responsibilities!
Seafront cafes & girls flirting for free ice creams; The Still & West;
Long cycle rides just to go visit a girl; CCF camp & Browndown in the rain
- Oh what fun!; Pauline Addison; GB Athletics trials; Nero's and Grannies
in the Tricorn; The Tour of Life.
Fashion
victims; granddad shirts, 'Yes' logo T-Shirts, afghan coats, Adidas Rom
trainers, combat jackets, great coats, long hair, Culottes, cheese cloth
shirts, platforms ..............feeling indestructible so drinking,
smoking, riding motorcycles in jeans, staying up for 40 hours. Wanting to
rebel against the suit wearing corporate life set out for us - failed!
Joined the establishment, bugger!
Long hot summers on the banks of the Thames at
Windsor, paddling and watching the boats because it
was great and because it was free! Bridge over
troubled water the album.. party nights at the
scout hut. Music went on, lights went off. Parents
collected at 1030 pm to hut in complete darkness,
..fun times ;-)
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