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« Reply #28815 on: Sunday, January 7, 2024, 16:54:41 » |
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I remember one of the members of Dave Dee ….. used to go to watch the speedway at the Abbey
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« Reply #28816 on: Monday, January 8, 2024, 10:16:58 » |
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I remember one of the members of Dave Dee ….. used to go to watch the speedway at the Abbey
Mick became a driving instructor I believe out Codford/Langford way |
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upon the rooves of Swindon Town"
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« Reply #28817 on: Monday, January 8, 2024, 15:45:51 » |
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Ronnie O'Sullivan, absolute genius on the snooker table
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« Reply #28818 on: Wednesday, January 10, 2024, 17:42:32 » |
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Before the Town Centre was developed.
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« Reply #28819 on: Wednesday, January 10, 2024, 23:57:30 » |
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Before the Town Centre was developed.
The old Market on the left. |
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« Reply #28820 on: Thursday, January 11, 2024, 01:26:25 » |
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Before the Town Centre was developed.
Typical Swindon, some fucking hoodie and balaclava wearing yoof in all black riding the wrong way down the road. |
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« Reply #28821 on: Thursday, January 11, 2024, 10:09:01 » |
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Before the Town Centre was developed.
The right side of the road is still exactly like that |
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« Reply #28822 on: Thursday, January 11, 2024, 16:27:17 » |
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The right side of the road is still exactly like that
It’s great to see a little history of Swindon still there |
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« Reply #28823 on: Thursday, January 11, 2024, 20:11:14 » |
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It’s great to see a little history of Swindon still there
I used to own a house just round the corner on Tennyson Street. It was built in 1896 and the deeds contained a covenant that stated none of the houses in the area around the Rolleston Arms could be turned into a pub! |
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« Reply #28824 on: Thursday, January 11, 2024, 20:15:11 » |
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I used to own a house just round the corner on Tennyson Street. It was built in 1896 and the deeds contained a covenant that stated none of the houses in the area around the Rolleston Arms could be turned into a pub!
Love stories like that sadly few and far between these days. |
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« Reply #28825 on: Thursday, January 11, 2024, 21:45:30 » |
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I used to own a house just round the corner on Tennyson Street. It was built in 1896 and the deeds contained a covenant that stated none of the houses in the area around the Rolleston Arms could be turned into a pub!
Similar in the Broad St area I think. |
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« Reply #28827 on: Friday, January 12, 2024, 23:04:07 » |
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Ok, did I tell you my Shed Seven story.
So as a few of you may know I work in live music (making me prone to the odd clanging name drop. Sorry)
Last October I was working the Shed Seven tour. Started the run in Cardiff and was talking to Rick before leaving. He asked if I was staying Cardiff of driving down to London for the next show. I said Im stopping at home. He said where do you live. Chippenham I replied. Chippenham. I lived in Chippenham he answered.
I was suitably godsmacked and later in the tour we chatted more about it. Apparently his parent moved to 'Nam when he was just out of school and he came down and lived in 'Nam for a year or so. Turns out he lived at the top of the hill on Hardenhuish lane. I live down the bottom of the hill about 200 foot away.
He worked in the garage on Bristol road and never got out as he had no mates and never found his tribe. At the time I was playing bass in an Indie band. Had we met as he walked past my house on his way to work we could have met up and started our own band! Sliding doors moments. He would have had to have stayed in Chippenham. So thats would have been a bit of a problem.
Oh well. The world got shed seven and I never got anywhere in my band. Never mind.
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« Reply #28828 on: Saturday, January 13, 2024, 01:02:02 » |
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Oh well. The world got shed seven and I never got anywhere in my band. Never mind.
Maybe you were just Chasing Rainbows with that one G...or it was just a Matter of Time before Rick left 'Nam?  My mate Barnaby photographed their album cover, in Spain. Understandably he is made up. Top lad, done a lot of tour shots for The Libertines too |
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There's a threat, you end it and you don't feel ashamed about enjoying it.
You smell the gunpowder and you see the blood, you know what that means?
It means you're alive. You've won.
You take the heads so that you don't ever forget.'
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« Reply #28829 on: Saturday, January 13, 2024, 08:13:20 » |
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Ok, did I tell you my Shed Seven story.
So as a few of you may know I work in live music (making me prone to the odd clanging name drop. Sorry)
Last October I was working the Shed Seven tour. Started the run in Cardiff and was talking to Rick before leaving. He asked if I was staying Cardiff of driving down to London for the next show. I said Im stopping at home. He said where do you live. Chippenham I replied. Chippenham. I lived in Chippenham he answered.
I was suitably godsmacked and later in the tour we chatted more about it. Apparently his parent moved to 'Nam when he was just out of school and he came down and lived in 'Nam for a year or so. Turns out he lived at the top of the hill on Hardenhuish lane. I live down the bottom of the hill about 200 foot away.
He worked in the garage on Bristol road and never got out as he had no mates and never found his tribe. At the time I was playing bass in an Indie band. Had we met as he walked past my house on his way to work we could have met up and started our own band! Sliding doors moments. He would have had to have stayed in Chippenham. So thats would have been a bit of a problem.
Oh well. The world got shed seven and I never got anywhere in my band. Never mind.
I always loved Shed Seven, whilst everyone at my school was going mad over Oasis (apart from the sweaty crowd listening to their Pantera, Sepultura type stuff) I was being won over by a band from York. Change Giver was never off my CD player (sometimes it would be put aside for the Charlatans or Stone Roses) and my love affair for She'd Seven was born. To be fair at my school there were a few who shared my enthusiasm and we travelled across to see them at the Barrowlands or somewhere in Edinburgh. (worst memory in Europe) I took Mrs Bob a few years ago to see them somewhere in London. What an evening going down memory lane singing along to all the classics. Marvellous. Great news that they have a number 1 album at last. My story isn't as cool as yours either but fuckit, I'm hitting post anyway! |
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we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise,
the gorgie boys, for Hearts in Europe.
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