This Is England '86

[Guest alex]

Kickers and Pods.

Edit: great minds, eh Chez?

Edited August 24, 2010 by alex

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Pippadee parties

 

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Tank-tops.

[Guest alex]

Tank-tops.

Remember them t-shirts like a string vest? T-bags or something like that.

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Kickers and Pods.

Edit: great minds, eh Chez?

Farahs, pods and tank-tops. Top clobber.

 

Have we had luminous terry-toweling socks with light grey slip-ons?

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Tank-tops.

Remember them t-shirts like a string vest? T-bags or something like that.

Yeah, dont think i had one though. Bit clubby for me at the time

[Guest Tuco Ramirez]

Pippadee parties

 

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aye me mam used to host them, like a modern day anne summers party for normal clothes.

 

Vectrex

 

Commodore 16

 

ZX Spectrum

 

Bermuda Shorts

[Guest alex]

Remember the grafitti? LBAB, NF, Sex Pistols, etc.

[Guest Tuco Ramirez]

Remember the grafitti? LBAB, NF, Sex Pistols, etc.

Aye there used to be one between Byker and Manors Metro Station, that read "FUKT"

 

An 80's thing for me cos of my age was the Spanish City and the Corkscrew.

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LBAB was in Longbenton station for years.

 

Had to look up deeley-boppers.

 

Kappa jackets.

[Meenzer 15347]

Spanish City, absolutely.

[Guest Tuco Ramirez]

Another 80's thing for me was Parishes toy department, happy days.

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When I started going to the away games on the train in about 81/82 it was just when the football casual thing was starting and I remember a few of my mates spending ridiculous amounts on clothes. Being a student I could never afford any of it.

 

A couple of weeks ago I was browsing for some cheap work clothes and found someone selling Tacchini t-shirts so I had to buy one just for the hell of it.

Edited August 24, 2010 by NJS

[Guest alex]

Another 80's thing for me was Parishes toy department, happy days.

Was just on about Parish's Department Store the other day as it happens. Used to sell everything in their. I often used to go to Shields Road with my Gran. You're revealing your East End roots there btw

[Guest Tuco Ramirez]

Ocean Pacific T Shirts. They were just normal t shirts you could buy for £3, but they a big OP on the back everyone had one and they cost £50+ this was the 80's too 50 quid was a lot of money.

[Renton 21056]

Early 80s - proper violence between schools and football fans.

 

Later 80s - absolutely shit Australian soap operas.

[Renton 21056]

Another 80's thing for me was Parishes toy department, happy days.

Was just on about Parish's Department Store the other day as it happens. Used to sell everything in their. I often used to go to Shields Road with my Gran. You're revealing your East End roots there btw

 

Don't recall it. I remember Fenwick's third floor (the whole of it iirc) and Bainbridge for 'Game and Watches' plus mandatory electric shocks.

[Guest alex]

Early 80s - proper violence between schools and football fans.

 

Later 80s - absolutely shit Australian soap operas.

Worlds apart the two ends of that decade. Ecstasy changed everything in terms of popular culture.

[Guest Tuco Ramirez]

Another 80's thing for me was Parishes toy department, happy days.

Was just on about Parish's Department Store the other day as it happens. Used to sell everything in their. I often used to go to Shields Road with my Gran. You're revealing your East End roots there btw

I used to go with me nana too . My roots are firmly in the East End (around the Fossway) although I've never lived there, I prefer people from the East End to the west side of Newcastle by far and I say that living on the west side all my life. I have this conversation regular with someone off here. I would also say the accent in older people down Walker is the best of geordie in my view.

[Guest Tuco Ramirez]

Early 80s - proper violence between schools and football fans.

Later 80s - absolutely shit Australian soap operas.

Aye. The year before I went to my high school there was a 100 v 100 battle between our school and Rutherford.

[Happy Face 29]

Cartoons on the front of your jeans.

 

I had The Flintstones.

[Guest Tuco Ramirez]

Whenever I used to stay at my nana's you'd hear the fog horn regular from down Tynemouth 8 mile away, never really heard it after the 80's.

[Guest alex]

Whenever I used to stay at my nana's you'd hear the fog horn regular from down Tynemouth 8 mile away, never really heard it after the 80's.

I remember hearing the fog horn actually. She lived near the Lightfoot (easy to forget how close it is to the river). Rough as owt where she lived but it never bothered my playing out there as a kid.

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Early 80s - proper violence between schools and football fans.

 

Later 80s - absolutely shit Australian soap operas.

Worlds apart the two ends of that decade. Ecstasy changed everything in terms of popular culture.

 

Arguably broader than just that, when the wall came down in 89, it seemed the world was becoming a more chilled out place. Mind you, the Germans were probably right on it by 89 so you never know actually.

[Guest alex]

End of the Cold War seems like a lifetime ago now.