Great Britain And The 80S

[Fieldsporthunter 1,864]

 

supergran.

I saw some of the supergran locations as a kid,it was filmed at beamish,tynemouth and whitley bay,i always kept an eye out for scunner campbell as a kid,and grannies flying on bikes.The local coppers used to look atbus walking around with our airguns out of the bags shooting starlings in the village for ferret food and just tell us to put them back in the sleeve,nowadays the media would descend upon us like a ton of bricks and make out as if it was a re-enactment of hungerford,times change and not always for the better.

A mate of mine was telling me about a time when he took a box of shotgun cartridges to school to swap for a ferret, the ferret moved in bag and scared some teacher and he ended up in headmasters office but still got to swap. Imagine if that happened now.

[zx12edge 1,001]

1976 swimming in the old brickyard lake got the worst sun burn of my life.Bird nesting fishing hay jumps raiding the orchards always had mongrel dog tagging on.If i got back home and the door was locked I had to sleep in the dog kennel. Out early doors mooching about back in when it got dark . Not a care in the world good old days

[forest of dean redneck 11,224]

Birds pecking the milk bottle tops on your door step , still drank the fecker and survived lol

Corona lemonade ,chips cooked in beef fat from a mobile chippy that was a comma van.

[Daniel cain 43,170]

 

Birds pecking the milk bottle tops on your door step , still drank the fecker and survived lol

Corona lemonade ,chips cooked in beef fat from a mobile chippy that was a comma van.

there an old boy down in Bettws where my nan lives still has a mobile shop in a van- lay away xmas and easter stuff. Loved the 80's listening to nwa on a cassette Walkman shouting f**k the police! Coming straight from the underground!start of the dance era-bands like James, stone roses etc proper hash and embassy no 1 at 85 pence for 10,fags sold in sweet packets single or 5 at a time-my old nan used to send me to the shop with a note .atb dc

[Waz 4,226]

grew up in the 70s 80s. All thats been said has made me smile. My eldest boy loves all this kinda stuff & nothing puts a bigger smile on my face to be part of making his childhood memories.

[Malt 379]

Loving this thread, so many memories!

[NEWKID 26,379]

Born in 76, big 40 this year!!

 

Everything that's been mentioned is how we all grew up, our morning till night, nesting, ferreting, fishing, everywhere with my old whippet mongrel called Haglar, everyone on the estate has a shitty old motorbike and we'd go along the river bank on em, come off and broke my collar bone showing off to a couple of girls from school lol...

Finding porn mags behind every bush or stuck out of bins, then stashing them in your den, fighting with other kids over your dens..

Peg gun wars, with the rival estate ...

Hedge jumping, weren't allowed to touch the path home from youth club, had to jump all the hedges in every garden back to your house without being caught...

My brother wearing football boots all day everyday although he was shit at football, just clipping up the pavement in his studs

Penny for the guy, dressed my brother up one year, some bloke says that ain't a guy it's a kid dressed up l, I says no it ain't and started kicking my bro to prove it

Loads of good shit, just roamed and had fun

Edited August 11, 2016 by NEWKID

[Kay 3,709]

Whatever decade you where a kid was great didn't have the same worries your parents had

[tatsblisters 8,135]

Hard times for me the 80's also some of the best times would I go back to the 80's despite being on strike for a year and other personal incidents.......You fekin bet I would.

[Greyman 25,830]

Aids, lucky it was only a poof's and wogs disease in the 80's.

aids, Analy, induced, death sentence,

[marshman 7,756]

My brothers dad and me early part of the 80s . My brother had a beige leather hunter Lynal scot roll neck Farahs and some Pierre Cardan shoes b*****d lol so jealous .

[kanny 19,620]

the best thing about the ,s was the music

I was born in 71 I never really got the 80s music all that Luther vandros and new wave shite and poodle rock... it wasn't till 88 when I was in the local discotheque lol and a record came on... Acieeed Acieeed!... Changed my life forever

Edited August 11, 2016 by kanny

[dodger 2,706]

Who remembers acid tops n scootexes n skateboards with the mad bright deck designs..

[Blackbriar 8,568]

Born in '63, so the 80s was the time of my late teens mid 20s - and happy days they were, too !

Not a care in the world, do as you please and sod the consequences because I am young and invincible ! The world is mine for the taking ! Did I manage it ? Did I f***....but if I had my time again, I'd go back to then.

 

If memory serves, I paid 37p for my first pint, about 60p for 20 fags and petrol for my Yam Fizzer was 72p a gallon - no poxy litres back then ! I bought it brand new, with a years fully comp, a tank of petrol (2 star) and a matching full face helmet - for the princely sum of £412 and a few pence !

 

Happy days !

[Blackbriar 8,568]

And I only listen to Absolute 80s on the car radio !