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[Man-of-Mystery]



69 année érotique...

Ah - Jane Firkin and Surge Forward!

 

[TomMc666]

Church Street, Marylebone, around 1970

 

[Botolph]



Church Street, Marylebone, around 1970

Great pic. Never seen that one, Tom. Fellow on the rigbt looks like the love child of Bob Dylan and Stinky Turner!

 

[Natty Pinstripe]

Church Street, Marylebone, around 1970

In the mid-60's I had a West Ham t-shirt (also kids size) just like that Arsenal one. Sky Blue shirt Claret printing, my Dad bought it for me from Bobby Moore's Sports Shop on Green Street (now a used appliance shop) opposite The Boleyn Ground.

 

[Clouseau]

Did any of you read 'Lemon socks' by Trevor Coote ? It's a pulp novel à la Richard Allen, but it seems well documented. The author (a Londoner born in 1952) is quite 'in the know' about the skinhead- suedehead years... I managed to read a part of the book online (between Amazon and Google books) and i'm hesitating about buying it. I would be curious to know what you think of it (if somebody here red it). It's the story (in 1971) of a London skinhead turned suedehead, seeing his (skinhead) world falling apart, with a good dose of sex and violence - of course.

 

[Bob the Badger]

In the mid-60's I had a West Ham t-shirt (also kids size) just like that Arsenal one. Sky Blue shirt Claret printing, my Dad bought it for me from Bobby Moore's Sports Shop on Green Street (now a used appliance shop) opposite The Boleyn Ground.

I remember the shop. A bloke who worked for me in the late 80s claimed his dad took over the shop. Not sure if he kept it as a sports shop or changed it to a cafe.

 

[Bob the Badger]

Career Club button down.

Sleeves look on the long side. I would turn the cuffs back twice to get the look.

 

[Man-of-Mystery]

Transcribing update: I have now got into the 800s.

 

[Ed Vaughan]



Transcribing update: I have now got into the 800s.

Well hurry up, I'm going into hospital next week for a new hip and I'll need something to read, ya bugger!!!

Found this French site that is a good read - IMHO.

http://www.skinheadorigines.com/#!polo-chemise/c1e5c

Covers a wide timeline - in pics and articles - and whoever has put it together has definitely spent a fair old time on it.

If it's not for you - fine. No need for a mega-rant or wasted key-strokes.

 

[Man-of-Mystery]



Found this French site that is a good read - IMHO.

http://www.skinheadorigines.com/#!polo-chemise/c1e5c

Covers a wide timeline - in pics and articles - and whoever has put it together has definitely spent a fair old time on it.

If it's not for you - fine. No need for a mega-rant or wasted key-strokes.

I'll say this - they obviously took a lot of time and trouble over constructing the site.

Photos - usual suspects!

 

[Ed Vaughan]



I'll say this - they obviously took a lot of time and trouble over constructing the site.

Photos - usual suspects!

Aye, some - one in particular - ugly mugshots on there.

You must have got around a bit. (Meeja hoor!!!)

 

[Newton heath]

As my memory is going quicker than my hair did can any of the good folk on here of a certain age inform me of what a pair of Levi/wrangler jeans /jackets, Levi sta press,Ben Sherman/jaytex shirts would have cost in around 1969/72. Just as a matter of interest ,thanks in advance

 

[roytonboy]

As my memory is going quicker than my hair did can any of the good folk on here of a certain age inform me of what a pair of Levi/wrangler jeans /jackets, Levi sta press,Ben Sherman/jaytex shirts would have cost in around 1969/72. Just as a matter of interest ,thanks in advance

Levis were £3 7s 6d. Levi Denim Jackets £4 7s 6d in 1969 If I recall correctly. Wranglers were slightly cheaper.

My first wage packet in the summer of 1971 was £10, minus National Insurance, so the Levis were quite expensive. LPs were £2.25 in 1971. Funny how the value of things has changed. Good quality jeans can still cost dozens of pounds but CDs (albums!) can be picked up very cheaply - in 45 years they only gone up 4 or 5 fold in price. Compare that with the price of watching top level football - it has gone up a hundred fold in the same period!

 

[Ed Vaughan]

Aye, remember them well... Levi's were 53/- or £2-13s or even just £2-65p in today's new world. from Jeffery Cohen's gaff on New Brown Street.(JC later did all the 'Stolen from Ivor' cheapos etc.)

Wranglers were a couple of bob cheaper and I have no idea about Lee Riders.

BS also around the price of Levi's while Jaytex, like Wranglers, were a few shillings cheaper.

Brutus were not on my want list in '69.

A Levi denim jacket was just shy of a £fiver at £4-19-6d.

Thanks for making an old man feel even older, BTW!

 

[Newton heath]

Roytonboy boy/ ed Vaughan,thank you so much ,I still think we were conned by decimalisation,: