Peter Venkman
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« Reply #105 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 11:43:48 » |
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Well, we know where we're goin'
But we don't know where we've been
And we know what we're knowin'
But we can't say what we've seen
And we're not little children
And we know what we want
And the future is certain
Give us time to work it out
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Honky McCracker
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« Reply #106 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 13:24:03 » |
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Beatties toy shop.
I spent my childhood there. Fantastic shop. |
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Honky McCracker
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« Reply #107 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 13:26:58 » |
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I can remember when the West Swindon club in Radnor Street wasn't strangely named, because that area was where Swindon stopped. Toothill farmhouse was actually a farmhouse back then.
I went to the youth club at the farmhouse, good times. |
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Honky McCracker
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« Reply #108 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 13:30:07 » |
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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. Chinky Tunnel, fuck me that takes me back. Good shout |
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« Reply #109 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 13:33:37 » |
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Tandys
Oven Door
Homeboyz
Chelsea Girl
Mortimers Fruit & Veg
I remember it being £2.50 to stand on Shrivenham Road and watch Swindon when I was a junior. We used to get there really early as well, so me and my brother could get near to the front. My dad used to stand right at the back with all his mates and then come and collect us at the end. You'd never dream of separating from your kids at a football match now. How times change.
I worked at Mortimers after school, cash in hand, Get in. |
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« Reply #110 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 13:34:27 » |
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Fleet Street Market - is it still there? I used to work on the fruit and veg stall saturday mornings.
Footloose - cheap shit shoes (Arriba !! the owners kids were at school with us)
And yes, yappity yap adver man was a legend and chinky tunnel was scary as fuck when you were 12, but taught you to run fast.
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« Reply #111 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 13:43:53 » |
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Somebody enlighten me as to what the Chinky Tunnel is ?
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« Reply #112 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 13:49:06 » |
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Flickers
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« Reply #113 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 13:58:22 » |
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Somebody enlighten me as to what the Chinky Tunnel is ?
It was a load of tunnels under the Wyvern...you know the round pillars at street level, they open up and there are stairs down to the tunnels. There was some sort of chinky kitchens under there and you could walk along a fair bit before the mad bastards came out chasing you with machetes and carving knives etc... |
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« Reply #114 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 14:05:05 » |
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It was a load of tunnels under the Wyvern...you know the round pillars at street level, they open up and there are stairs down to the tunnels. There was some sort of chinky kitchens under there and you could walk along a fair bit before the mad bastards came out chasing you with machetes and carving knives etc...
Ah yes - the kitchens of the rendezvous ? |
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« Reply #115 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 14:06:59 » |
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Ah yes - the kitchens of the rendezvous ?
More than likely, yep. |
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« Reply #116 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 14:12:18 » |
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You just described my adolesence.
 Those were the days... I seem to remember a lot of the same people always did the Cairo's Thursday - Brunel Saturday thing too. Ahhhh the nostalgia! |
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Bumpkin
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« Reply #117 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 15:30:21 » |
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Chinky Tunnel. Wow.
Beatties = Trents.
Devon Savouries. Mmmmmm
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« Reply #118 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 15:49:33 » |
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cosmic and ripple skin tight jeans from the brunel market. The changing rooms facing out into the whole market with curtains that barely covered the room. The humilation.
Oh, and being chased by some chinky from the kitchens with a machete, always seemed to happen to a mate of a mate....urban myth?
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« Reply #119 on: Friday, January 21, 2011, 15:51:34 » |
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cosmic and ripple skin tight jeans from the brunel market. The changing rooms facing out into the whole market with curtains that barely covered the room. The humilation.
Oh, and being chased by some chinky from the kitchens with a machete, always seemed to happen to a mate of a mate....urban myth?
I always thought that. |
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