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Ernie Shackleton said:
3 star jumper halfway up my back over a cheesecloth shirt. 5 button waistband Oxford bags. Oxblood Docs. Silk City scarf tied around my wrist.


When I was about 13 I was just a walking target.


I think I might have even beaten meself up once.
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Brilliant iii, wasn’t far behind you I had my silk scarf for years after - need to look for it . Other scarfs tied like a cravat ,
 
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Ric Glasgow said:
I was going to ask if you had a sheepskin...Always wanted one but never did get it.

I had a good look around for one a couple of years but never saw anything that caught my eye.

P.S I'm sat watching Dickinsons real deal,**** knows where he gets his suits? He had on a double breasted pinstripe job that Al Capone would've been proud of!
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My first 7 weeks pay got me £42 spare saved for a dark brown sheepskin- had it years. Old man went barmy cos I spent that much on one coat - he already had my board every week so he got nowhere .
 
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Urika Peece. said:
I got the suit I was married in hand made at Burtons, top of Whitefriargate, with 30 mother of pearl white buttons up both sleeves. Jet black suit with visible white stitching. Wore it on a train back from London, 1974? Same week end Newcastle United had played in the FA Cup Final and the train was full of Geordies. They thought I was one of them, some even asking if I was someone famous connected to the club! Seriously. It was a lovely suit. Hand made in Hull. Another fashionable shop around 1970 especially for trainers, which were still very new, Addidas especially, Fred Perry and Slazenger clothing was Asbestos on the corner of Saville Street. The trainers were actually proper running shoes without the spikes, very expensive in 1970 terms, a months wages if I remember correctly. Also got my sheepskin from Burtons, 50p a week for an eternity. Got it in 1970 and had it ripped to shreds climbing over a barbed wire fence at Bell Vue one night, Donny v City in the League Cup in 1974/75, I think I was still paying for it!
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imagine calling a shop Asbestos nowadays?
 
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originallambrettaman said:
They're still going strong, though the Asbestos & Rubber Company Ltd are now better known as ARCO.
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I dismantled an old asbestos garage many years ago. I had rung the council and asked where I could dispose of it. Arrived at Wiltshire Road with a van full of asbestos double wrapped in visqueen and gaffer tape.
"What have you got?"
Asbestos
"Lets have a look" - Ooooh splendid, we have people turning up with it in tesco bags.
Directed to the container, where I was met by a guy wearing a disposable full body suit and full face mask.
The next bit was like having a conversation with Darth Vada...
Bit of an irony this, isn't it?
"What is?"
You got all that gear from ARCO didn't you. You know what ARCO stands for? "No". The company that made all this bloody stuff in the first place, asbestos and rubber company, now makes a fortune helping to get rid of it.
 
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springtiger said:
Hi UP ,think I was daft !! it hadn’t evolved to those clothes at that point they were very much in ‘working’ gear , that did the trick , it didn’t take long tho for that polished version to appear . Never did the shaved head bit tho , too extreme for me LOL You were right , docs, Harrington s, Brutus shirts , Wide legged Levi’s , Wranglers , or if a suede head , Staypress trousers , fluorescent socks, loafers or brogues , Crombie coats , hankie in the top pocket . And braces if you wanted them . If you couldn’t afford Ben Sherman or Brutus check shirts make do with Trutex!! History of the 70’s footie fan and some real bad fashion - but of it’s time . When Wednesday came here in those days they had a good number of big fat fellas who took some dislodging from memory - not by me LOL
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I know the conversation moved quickly away from the topic but I had a quick read on the Owlstalk board and they are as quick to defend on the same topic as they where when we had all the issues back when in league 1.
The issue isn’t what you see so much in the ground, it’s that one tunnel when you get in. It directs everyone to the middle. surely blocking that off dispersing everyone to the sides is an easy step to removing the same issues.
In reality the history of this stand means it really needs knocking down
 
Asterix said:
I dismantled an old asbestos garage many years ago. I had rung the council and asked where I could dispose of it. Arrived at Wiltshire Road with a van full of asbestos double wrapped in visqueen and gaffer tape.
"What have you got?"
Asbestos
"Lets have a look" - Ooooh splendid, we have people turning up with it in tesco bags.
Directed to the container, where I was met by a guy wearing a disposable full body suit and full face mask.
The next bit was like having a conversation with Darth Vada...
Bit of an irony this, isn't it?
"What is?"
You got all that gear from ARCO didn't you. You know what ARCO stands for? "No". The company that made all this bloody stuff in the first place, asbestos and rubber company, now makes a fortune helping to get rid of it.
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When I was a kid our old council house had an asbestos shed and I used to scratch my name into it.
 
As teens, made a skate ramp on an asbestos roof on an old abandoned building. It was fun, until someone went through it.

Then we made a little skate park inside the building, entering through the hole.
 
We moved into the new houses on West Parade, 1968 ish, and they were still pulling down the old houses down Claredon Street, on a night we helped the workers out, pushing over walls, making big bonfires, never did us any harm. Cough. Spit
 
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