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Category Archives: 1970’S
Nearly There!
After months of editing, rewrites, more editing and finally…. Formatting my book, I have proof copies to read. It’s kinda exciting but at the same time I think I probably know it off by heart 😂 Bradford in 1974.Billy Lynch … Continue reading
Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Books, Bradford, Fiction, Life, Writing
Tagged 1970'S, Blog, Blogging, Books, Bradford, Charlie Robinson, Human Interest, Life, Love, Reflections, Writer, Writing
38 Comments
My Days of Football
It was a grim winter day, the skies were grey and the birds had even stopped singing. We trudged reluctantly past the black, foreboding gates of the Victorian park. A thin line of frozen schoolboys. Heading out for an afternoon … Continue reading
Posted in 1970'S, Athletics, Blog, Blogging, Freedom, Humour, Life, Opinion
Tagged Family, Football, Football Gear, Leeds United, Norman Hunter, School Football, School Sports, Schooldays
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‘It’s a Rat Trap, Billy and you’ve been conned 😂
Why are youngsters put under pressure to choose a career? Now call me cynical but it’s all down to taxes. If we are all ‘good,’ go to school, study hard, get a good job, marry, buy a house, (debt) have … Continue reading
What’s So Special About the Past?
The alarm clacks its two bells at six am and I can hear Chuck Berry’s, ‘My Ding a Ling’ playing somewhere in the house. Normally I go back to sleep – I am only fifteen and a full day in … Continue reading
Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Bradford, History, Humour, Life
Tagged 1970'S, 1972, Child Labour, Chuck Berry, Days Gone by, Engineering, Factories, Factory Work, Fifteen, Glory Days, Life, My Ding a Ling, Remember, Reminiscing
61 Comments
Clouds, Kids, Love and Soul
The mournful clouds oppress my soul. Of course, we have to presume: A- I have a soul and B – If I have, could it be oppressed. But it’s better than saying, ‘I’m sick of the rain,’ isn’t it? I … Continue reading
Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Bradford, Freedom, Humour, Life, Love, Opinion
Tagged 1970'S, Childhood, Childhood Sweetheart, Clouds, Grass, Lazy Sunday Afternoon, Lazy Sundays, Reflections, Small Faces, Sounds and Smells, Sunshine, Teenage Liaisons, Teenage Love
59 Comments
Memories, Smells and The Bus
The aroma of the bus. I have never been able to identify it. Plastic seats soaked in decayed human sweat, a definite metal acidity and stale smoke? But at six o’clock in the unearthly hours of 1973, it was easy. … Continue reading
Strange Thoughts and Yoga
Eyes searching upwards from the laptop capture the blue sky before the sunlight pierces the cornea, forcing me to squint. Now 70’s channel plays The Archies ‘Sugar, Sugar’ and I recall fancying the brunette when an adolescent, so I have … Continue reading
Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Coronavirus, Humour, Life, Lifestyle, Opinion
Tagged 70's Music, Achilles Tendon, Adriene Yoga, Blog, Blogging, Exercise, Humour, Life, Sports Injury, The Archies, Yoga, YouTube Yoga
40 Comments
Oh! The Working Men’s Club
Picture this. A warm alluring bar, rich, mellow music, intimate seating and culinary delights to tease your taste buds into a frenzy. Well, a Working Men’s Club wasn’t quite like that. When I was a lad this was our Sunday … Continue reading
Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Dancing, History, Humour, Life, Opinion, Over 50's, people
Tagged 1970'S, Bingo, Humour, Life, Northern Dance Bands, Pie and Peas, Social Clubs, Tetley Bitter, Working Class, Working Men, Working Men's Club, Working Women
35 Comments
Sexual Awakening
If you have a disinclination towards sex, then it may be prudent of you to ‘click’ close now. One dark cold night last week I was reminiscing to an age gone by and ‘the sexual awakening.’ I was eleven or … Continue reading
Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, History, Humour, Life, Opinion, people
Tagged Adolescence, Childhood, Growing Up, Hells Angels, Oral Sex, Sex, Sexual Awakening, Star Trek
36 Comments
Another Old Girl
“That’s the best Curry I have had in 44 years,” I said. The waiter, quite possibly the owner of the Kashmir Restaurant in Bradford gave me one of those looks. I’m kinda used to them by now. He appeared to … Continue reading
Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Bradford, History, Humour, Life, Opinion, Railways, Travel
Tagged 1976, Bradford, Curry, Great Victoria Hotel, Karachi Restaurant, Kashmir Restaurant, Prostitutes, Railway Hotels, Victorians
29 Comments