NUFC Pictures - from days of old.

[john 59]

On 18/10/2024 at 10:34, PaddockLad said:

Names?…

 

 

 

[RobinRobin 11549]

8 hours ago, john said:

Names? ...

 

On 19/10/2024 at 03:42, Monkeys Fist said:

Starting from the granny in her Sunday best directly behind Mirandinha , she’s Dot Swinburn, the three lasses to her left are her daughters Tracey, Sharon and Susan, and at the end is her ex, Bob Swinburn. 
Dot is there with her new squeeze, Micky Lamb,to her right,  a Benwell lothario with a taste for oak-aged minge. 
They won a family ticket on the Pools and Bob is there under duress. 
 

“ They’re MY daughters, not that smarmy little prick floor manager’s from Parrishes!”
 

Gemmill’s older brother is stood next to them. 

 

[Alex 35567]

Not NUFC but @Monkeys Fist remember this? Popped up on some page dedicated to Brutalist architecture, Killingworth c. 1979:

[Howmanheyman 33820]

3 hours ago, Alex said:

Not NUFC but @Monkeys Fist remember this? Popped up on some page dedicated to Brutalist architecture, Killingworth c. 1979:

 

Seen that before but it's lush, isn't it? Never lived there but similar stuff like that was all over when I was little. As a kid what more could you want if you were skint?

[Gemmill 46010]

On a hot day, it would have been like a fucking radiator too. Keep the bare skin of it on the way down. 

[Alex 35567]

It was near this mural depicting the glorious Texaco Cup victory:

 

[Monkeys Fist 43060]

On 09/11/2024 at 08:52, Alex said:

Not NUFC but @Monkeys Fist remember this? Popped up on some page dedicated to Brutalist architecture, Killingworth c. 1979:

I lived in Killy Towers until 1976 when we moved in to one of the Garths. 
 

This place was 5 minutes on a Grifter from either address 

 

There were two iirc, this full length death wish, and the junior one for nippers next to it, which was about 15ft shorter, so both were actually lethal 

 

If you look top right, you can see the “steps” that were the way up the concrete to the top - best and most scary part of it, tbh. 

 

You’re right about the murals, they were on some big walls behind the photographer’s pov here, either end of what I think we’re meant to be all weather pitches- in reality they were big gravel patches that no fucker ever played football on, but made for great stunt jump areas for aforementioned Grifters. 
 

These two slides also both ended directly on to the same gravel… forgetting about that was a mistake you only made once 

[Howmanheyman 33820]

9 hours ago, Alex said:

It was near this mural depicting the glorious Texaco Cup victory:

 

 

 

Has anyone seen that Uber advert where someone gets to be friends with Robert di Niro and follow him around doing stuff? That would be me with Terry Mac and his tache.

 

Me: "So.....err.....do you drink beer?"

 

Terry Mac: " Do I drink beer?...... Yeah....I drink beer......Do you drink beer?"

 

Me: "Aye, I.....I drink beer."

 

T McD: "Good for you."

 

Me narrating: "And that's when me and Terry Mac became friends."

 

 

[Monkeys Fist 43060]

One of the more unhinged activities we’d do in the Towers was girder sliding. 

 

The walkways between the blocks were supported H-section girders, and if you put your feet against the inside of one side of the H, with your body on the outside of the other side, pulling against it with your hands,,you could slide down them. 

The bottom arrow was the beginner level, from the lower level ( only 6 storeys), whilst the upper level was hard lad territory ( 9 storeys). 
 

I did the lower ones quite a few times, only once for hard-lad level-insane tbh. 

I remember some lad at our school who died doing the hard-lad level and I think they put spikes around them to make access more tricky. 
 

Incidentally, the block pictured is where I used to live, ringed in red. 
 

We’d also climb the outside of the car parks quite often, which was pretty easy tbh. 
 

 

 

Thats the best/only pic of them I could find, about 8 storeys but a piece of piss to climb. 

[RobinRobin 11549]

1 minute ago, Monkeys Fist said:

One of the more unhinged activities we’d do in the Towers was girder sliding. 

 

The walkways between the blocks were supported H-section girders, and if you put your feet against the inside of one side of the H, with your body on the outside of the other side, pulling against it with your hands,,you could slide down them. 

The bottom arrow was the beginner level, from the lower level ( only 6 storeys), whilst the upper level was hard lad territory ( 9 storeys). 
 

I did the lower ones quite a few times, only once for hard-lad level-insane tbh. 

I remember some lad at our school who died doing the hard-lad level and I think they put spikes around them to make access more tricky. 
 

Incidentally, the block pictured is where I used to live, ringed in red. 
 

We’d also climb the outside of the car parks quite often, which was pretty easy tbh. 
 

 

 

Thats the best/only pic of them I could find, about 8 storeys but a piece of piss to climb. 

[Monkeys Fist 43060]

1 minute ago, RobinRobin said:

Young and daft- the biggest fear wasn’t falling, it was your Mam finding out you’d done it. 

[Alex 35567]

1 hour ago, Monkeys Fist said:

I lived in Killy Towers until 1976 when we moved in to one of the Garths. 
 

This place was 5 minutes on a Grifter from either address 

 

There were two iirc, this full length death wish, and the junior one for nippers next to it, which was about 15ft shorter, so both were actually lethal 

 

If you look top right, you can see the “steps” that were the way up the concrete to the top - best and most scary part of it, tbh. 

 

You’re right about the murals, they were on some big walls behind the photographer’s pov here, either end of what I think we’re meant to be all weather pitches- in reality they were big gravel patches that no fucker ever played football on, but made for great stunt jump areas for aforementioned Grifters. 
 

These two slides also both ended directly on to the same gravel… forgetting about that was a mistake you only made once 

Aye, I remember the so-called pitches too  

[Craig 6700]

[PaddockLad 17642]

 

[RobinRobin 11549]

 

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