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Category Archives: Bradford
‘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
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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
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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
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
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Going Back, Haworth, the Bronte’s and a Sticky Toffee Pudding
I doubt there will ever be a Parkrun in Haworth and the Bronte Sisters must have had calf muscles to die for! In 1973 many people thought the Hovis advert had been filmed in Haworth but it was actually filmed … Continue reading
Should You Go Back?
The rain bounced off the car, then came the hailstones and yes; I realised how much I hadn’t missed Bradford. I was just a kid of barely 18 when I boarded a one way flight from Leeds/Bradford Airport to Jersey, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Bradford, Humour, Life, Opinion, people, Travel
Tagged 1974, Bradford, Chellow Dene, Devils Cave, Drummond Road Boys School, Going Back, Going Back to Your Roots, Going Home, Identity, Lumb Lane, Manningham, Pound Shop, Revisiting
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So I Left Home
Now then. In Yorkshire that means hello. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post called Are any of us where we set out to be?’ I ended it by saying I had left home at eighteen and … Continue reading
