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« Reply #210 on: Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 09:00:03 »

I've just noticed the bit right at the bottom about being dropped off at the Falcon Inn, pretty sure that was a Hells Angel pub. They must have loved a load of smelly hippies turning up looking confused.

Hell's Angels....yikes, you never quite knew what you'd get with these boys. My scariest memory, puttling past Mannington Farm on my scooter at night, on my way to sure fire thing in Broad Town, and getting slapped by a chain from a group who were squatting in aforementioned place.

Those who know the farmhouse might be puzzled, but in 69, the bridge in Wootton Bassett Road by Running Horse....marked the edge of Swindon going west, a quiet country lane, then led to Bassett. I thought I'd be sacrificed by cooking in a vat of sump oil if caught....the old Li never went faster  Smiley
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« Reply #211 on: Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 09:05:24 »

I remember when it was fields right up to the railway bridge by the running horse.
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« Reply #212 on: Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 10:31:53 »

I remember when it was fields right up to the railway bridge by the running horse.

My first employment after leaving school ( 1979 ) was surveying said fields for wilts cc archeology dept on a government scheme.
Building Toothill had started then
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« Reply #213 on: Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 11:00:41 »

The cafe up by the bus station in Chippenham was always a 'greasers' hangout.

Had to walk past it to get to the New Inn up the Causeway. All togged out in me crombie et al!

What a prick!
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« Reply #214 on: Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 15:19:32 »

The new Inn is up by the train station  Huh? Huh?
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« Reply #215 on: Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 15:24:12 »

Fuck me, you're right. Shows how the old memory from the 70s plays tricks.

Should have been the 3 Crowns
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« Reply #216 on: Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 15:47:02 »

Yep  Wink
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« Reply #217 on: Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 16:40:09 »

Hell's Angels....yikes, you never quite knew what you'd get with these boys. My scariest memory, puttling past Mannington Farm on my scooter at night, on my way to sure fire thing in Broad Town, and getting slapped by a chain from a group who were squatting in aforementioned place.

Those who know the farmhouse might be puzzled, but in 69, the bridge in Wootton Bassett Road by Running Horse....marked the edge of Swindon going west, a quiet country lane, then led to Bassett. I thought I'd be sacrificed by cooking in a vat of sump oil if caught....the old Li never went faster  Smiley

I never explored that side of town before it was developed, I remember venturing out that way when the Carrefour supermarket opened, late 70s?
I also remember West Swindon Working Mens Club was in Radnor Street.
 
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« Reply #218 on: Wednesday, September 30, 2015, 10:27:59 »

Some footage of this day has made it into a Premier League feature. https://twitter.com/premierleague/status/649155834828689408
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« Reply #219 on: Wednesday, September 30, 2015, 10:44:11 »

Lovely piece that. There's a Town fan entrenched in Premier League Productions, good friend of mine, and was on that gig hence the heavy STFC slant.
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« Reply #220 on: Wednesday, September 30, 2015, 10:50:49 »

Lovely piece that. There's a Town fan entrenched in Premier League Productions, good friend of mine, and was on that gig hence the heavy STFC slant.

I spoke to the two lads that were filming it for the day. They seemed like good chaps.
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« Reply #221 on: Wednesday, September 30, 2015, 17:15:48 »

Ralphy doing the Airplane!
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