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Category Archives: History
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
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To Flee or to Fight
The sun creeps over the mountain ridge, casting its first shadow deep into the canyon – far away in the distance a blur is moving fast with the speed and agility of a Pronghorn. Look closer and you see someone … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Blogging, Freedom, History, Life, Mexico, Opinion, Running
Tagged Athletics, Blogging, Born to Run, Charlie Robinson, Christopher McDougall, Copper Canyons, Life, Mexico, Opinion, Running, Tarahumara, Travel
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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
33 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
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
My First Valentine
I had considered a brooch but I wasn’t my Grandad and this was 1972. A brooch was hardly Rock’n’Roll. Gazing around the jewelers I was confounded by the amount glittering remuneration a boy could extend to a girl and decided … Continue reading
Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, History, Humour, Life, Love, Opinion, Valentine Day
Tagged 1970'S, Adolescence, Blogging, Charlie Robinson, Human Interest, Humour, Life, Opinion, People, Relationships
30 Comments
So, Your Uterus Didn’t Drop Out?
She ran and she ran, her heart was beating too fast, she knew this but kept going. She made the 200m line, 400 meters, 800 meters, shattering the mile record, still she ran, and then it happened. Her uterus fell … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Blog, Blogging, Freedom, History, Humour, Life, Opinion, Running
Tagged Amsterdam Olympics 1928, Humour, IOC, Jo Pavey, Life, Marathons, Paula Radcliffe, Run, Running, Tokyo Olympics, Women Running, Women's Athletics, Women's Distance Running, Women's Marathon, Women's Olympics
42 Comments
The Trilby and the ‘Mod’
Construction offices are strange places, all those drawings, plans and schedules. So, there I am waiting to review an apprentice with the Site manager, Trevor, and he asks me about the book I am working on. I explain it’s set … Continue reading
Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Fashion, History, Humour, Life, Lifestyle, Music, Opinion
Tagged 70's, 70's Fashion, 80's, 80's Fashion, Carnaby Street, Duran Duran, Goths, Johnny Rotten, London, Mods, Mods and Rockers, Punks, Reggae, Rockers, Ska, Skinheads, Teddy Boys, The Cure, The Small Faces, Trilbys
31 Comments
Batman and I
“One August day an eight-year old and his mum are picking blackberries, she is unaware her son is a Superhero and wearing his costume beneath his ordinary clothes. I was expecting a crime wave not a heat wave and as … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Entertainment, Film, History, Humour, Life
Tagged Batman, Batman at 80, Batman's Birthday, DC Comics, Superheroes
25 Comments
It Wasn’t Love
She began to cry, silently, suppressing a basic human emotion and words flashed through my adolescent mind. “There, there – it’ll be okay – are you alright?” Words from my childhood and all of them cowardly used by people who … Continue reading
