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« Reply #120 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 15:59:53 »

hahaha at the skin tight ripples.not fogetting the flintstones jeans too.

chinky tunnel was not a myth.i got chased down there quite a few times.saturday afternnons were not the same without a chase from the mental chefs.
the aim was to keep going through the tunnel as it brought you to a spiral staircase which brings you up to ground level.
i achieved that feat once.the other times ended up running back the way i came.
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« Reply #121 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 16:02:47 »

hahaha at the skin tight ripples.not fogetting the flintstones jeans too.

chinky tunnel was not a myth.i got chased down there quite a few times.saturday afternnons were not the same without a chase from the mental chefs.
the aim was to keep going through the tunnel as it brought you to a spiral staircase which brings you up to ground level.
i achieved that feat once.the other times ended up running back the way i came.


And I'll vouch for that. Wasn't there when you reached the holy grail but have high tailed it out of there with you.

Skin tight ripple flecks...sweet
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« Reply #122 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 16:07:30 »

we used to buy faggots from devon savouries and throw them off the top of the car park at people.
those cheesey things they sold for about 8p were lovely.
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« Reply #123 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 16:57:42 »


40 in a class.. always wearing short trousers....ink wells and dip and scratch pens....if you made a mistake with spacing or blotted your copy book, the teacher would deliver a rap on the knuckles with her stick.

Getting caned for various misdemeanours....but never for a really good punch up, it was kind of accepted that boys would be boys, hence separate entrances and playgrounds for girls and boys.

Outside bogs...making cap bombs out of British Rail nuts and bolts....bogies, not snotty noses but these bad boys...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/4887507583/
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« Reply #124 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 16:59:59 »

we used to buy faggots from devon savouries and throw them off the top of the car park at people.
those cheesey things they sold for about 8p were lovely.


I'd forgotton about them, they were effectively cheese flavoured pastry.  What were they actually called?

Also, didn't there used to be some of bridge/walkway above the Parade somewhere by the John Murray building or have I imagined that?  I seem to recall hanging around on it.

You used to be able to walk across a little bridge from the Brunel car park into the Indoor Market.  
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« Reply #125 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 17:05:42 »

Pepe keyrings ?
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« Reply #126 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 17:09:27 »

we used to buy faggots from devon savouries and throw them off the top of the car park at people.
those cheesey things they sold for about 8p were lovely.


Are these what you mean? We get them from a Brazilian store in Munich, they are lovely!

http://www.google.at/imgres?imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DS25lQerVvI/TIosblf-UmI/AAAAAAAABXw/S1ALvWox1wI/s1600/pao_de_queijo.jpg&imgrefurl=http://aromaeartesanatos.blogspot.com/2010/09/pao-de-queijo.html&h=960&w=1280&sz=256&tbnid=ARRFPEwVBhYPKM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpao%2Bde%2Bqueijo&zoom=1&q=pao+de+queijo&usg=__ilWddouYQYgFhLlPgdfQC8025Eg=&sa=X&ei=ZL05TajFJpKKhQfe-ZnkCg&ved=0CCAQ9QEwAw
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« Reply #127 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 17:17:21 »

had the original local mural in Prospect Place Old Town, with Diana Dors and Don Rogers together. http://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/5096514139/

That whole flickr album is pretty good! I remember the big train mural from when I was little
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/5096512787/
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« Reply #128 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 18:28:27 »

Kempsters Records, Flashback Records and Red Carpet records.  Trying to get into Saks (I think it was called before it became Bubbles) and failing, but getting served in the Cross Keys. 
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« Reply #129 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 18:30:03 »

Plum Records?
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« Reply #130 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 18:45:38 »

Plum may have been after my time (I'm an old f*cker).  Do remember the 2 second hand shops at the bottom of Viccy hill though.  Regularly trying flog shite albums in them both..
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« Reply #131 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 19:19:15 »

Kempsters Records, Flashback Records and Red Carpet records.  Trying to get into Saks (I think it was called before it became Bubbles) and failing, but getting served in the Cross Keys. 

Our price.

and Chelsea girl, purely for the frontage (a little gay being a girls clothing store, I know)
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« Reply #132 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 20:54:28 »

this i bugging me, the merlin pub was once called the oxford, arround 1992 it changed names for  a short time and was done up as a trendy pub, does anyone know what it was called Hmmm
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« Reply #133 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 21:07:29 »

this i bugging me, the merlin pub was once called the oxford, arround 1992 it changed names for  a short time and was done up as a trendy pub, does anyone know what it was called Hmmm

Was it..The Malt and Hops?
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« Reply #134 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 21:07:55 »

quote author=woolster link=topic=42401.msg914723#msg914723 date=1295643268]
this i bugging me, the merlin pub was once called the oxford, arround 1992 it changed names for  a short time and was done up as a trendy pub, does anyone know what it was called Hmmm
[/quote]  along the line of malt and hops iirc
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