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« Reply #30 on: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 20:06:49 » |
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I remember him. You always had to get there early on a Saturday morning early, otherwise the queue would be out of the door. Didn't he has Parkinsons disease or something, as he always seemed to have the shakes?
Only ever used to have a "number one all over please", as I never trusted the fucker to do anything else..
Rhapsody in the Brunel centre. Had a good tattoo shop in the basement.
The Metal Mesh behind the goal in the Town End to stop coins and other various "missiles" from decapitating opposition goalkeepers / defenders.
The Tramways pub / Bar on Regents Circus.
The Old Vic Bar in the Wiltshire Hotel (Now Menzies) opposite the Old police station off of Fleming Way.
When you could still smoke / piss and swear where you stood in the Town End and nobody would be bothered as every other nutter in there would be doing the same.
Being able to buy two (glass) bottles of Carling Black Label in the CGH and get change from 2 quid.
What has happened to our once great town?
He had a mirror that i swear had a models head photographed on the back...when he showed you it your hair looked great....got home and you looked like a scarecrow..seemed to remember he loved the railways. Who can remember Dairy Fresh bakeries.............and the broken biscuits. |
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OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR
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« Reply #31 on: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 20:09:00 » |
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Terry Warner Sports in Commercial Road..
..and Rimes Travel in Commercial Road..and Rimes Coaches..
..and that funny concrete fountain thing in The Parade..
[url width=203 height=152]http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/images/2008/06/05/let_me_tell_you_swindon_2_203x152.jpg[/url]
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« Reply #32 on: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 20:10:55 » |
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He had a mirror that i swear had a models head photographed on the back...when he showed you it your hair looked great....got home and you looked like a scarecrow..seemed to remember he loved the railways.
Who can remember Dairy Fresh bakeries.............and the broken biscuits.
Was that the bakery on kiln lane, off of Cheney Manor road? |
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #33 on: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 20:12:05 » |
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Don't get me started....
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leefer
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« Reply #34 on: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 20:19:24 » |
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Was that the bakery on kiln lane, off of Cheney Manor road?
It was a shop...nationwide i think....used to go to the one in Cavvy Square....a penny got you a gurt big bag of broken biscuits.......with the odd whole one  |
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« Reply #35 on: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 20:22:44 » |
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Is that God-awful statue of the acrobats still outside Maccy D's?
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Samdy Gray
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« Reply #36 on: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 20:26:06 » |
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Nope.
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Bogus Dave
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« Reply #37 on: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 20:30:49 » |
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They've moved that to st marks park, bizzarely. The entire St marks area was brilliant when I was little. Rubbish now  |
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« Reply #38 on: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 20:35:36 » |
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some crackers already mentioned,nochee in partcular really jogged my memory.i had zodiac zippers  and saturday at bubbles was ace as a kid. anyway some of mine..... world of sport. chinky tunnel. when you could walk around queens park lake. |
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« Reply #39 on: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 20:38:08 » |
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some crackers already mentioned,nochee in partcular really jogged my memory.i had zodiac zippers and saturday at bubbles was ace as a kid. anyway some of mine..... world of sport. chinky tunnel. when you could walk around queens park lake. Is that the chinky tunnels up by the Wyvern? You used to see how far you could get before the mad bastards used to chase you out. |
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« Reply #40 on: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 20:41:47 » |
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Is that God-awful statue of the acrobats still outside Maccy D's?
Isn't it in the Whitehouse Road park now? Near the tennis courts by the Shell garage. Seem it somewhere but can't remember where. |
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« Reply #41 on: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 20:42:43 » |
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Ringside seats-wooden benches around the edge of the pitch.
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upon the rooves of Swindon Town"
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« Reply #42 on: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 20:42:48 » |
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Growing up in West Swindon in the early 1980s and being allowed to go pretty much where I liked on my bike. Freshbrook and Westlea were still being built, and it seemed as if there were several new streets to explore every week. The place was growing so fast and (as a kid) really seemed to be on the up.
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Arriba
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« Reply #43 on: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 20:45:54 » |
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Is that the chinky tunnels up by the Wyvern?
You used to see how far you could get before the mad bastards used to chase you out.
yep.good chase back in the day i remember brians barbers too.cheap as fuck and rightly so.i went there when i wanted the extra cash given to me to buy fags.his moustached mrs used to sit there in silence and sweep up after every haircut. waynes or ians on commerical road did much better cuts but cost more. |
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« Reply #44 on: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 20:46:03 » |
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Anyone remember the fullsize floodlit football pitches at the Oasis which were made of gravel?
Also real town centre pubs such as the Lamb and Flag, the Rolling Mills and the original Sir Daniel's Arms.
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