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My lunchtime pub when i was doing jobs at Typhoo Tea

Velcro Iron on Tape they do a double sided sticky version today

Jean Happy Birthday Don

Great photos next time you go there it be gone knocked down same here between Blackpool Preston they uncovered lineside huts and even a HG Pillbox yes they knocked them down they are not doing any harm Yes off topic now but it makes my blood boil good job you took photos

I hit the track in 65 by then it was 6d for 30 mins and they were only allowing 12 bikes on the track at one time as i said in Aston Park thread a kind staff member taught how to ride on a 20 inch frame i was whizzing around on my own on second vist i can see all those Yellow bikes in the racks now

Thats where the track was theres abit more about it in Aston Park thread thats been recently updated

We Hit The Send Button At The Same Time

Aston Park 1960s Lyn

i recall it being on BRMB Radio shortly after it had happened i was with my Irish born Dad who shock his head and said looks like PIRA have started a Bombing campaign in the UK

Yes it kept going for a number of years But once i got my own bike i never used it again I do recall you being able to to take your own bike on the circut

68/69 at a guess Long time ago but what a great decade to have grown up in

Does anyone recall the the Kids cycle track it appeared on the The Tinker & Tucker Show when it first opened complete with Zebra Crossings etc it was Old Sixpence for 30 mins the bikes were Yellow Girls and Boys 20 to 24 inches i was taught to ride there safely by a Staff Member it came to...

Spot On Says It All

Im sure the end shop was a Taxi place in the mid 70s used to get a Cab from there after a night out in Bloomers NC in the Swan Centre the shop left to Wool Shop was a second hand tool shop in the 80s called Toolman brought a lot of vintage hand tools from there which i still have and use today

Mortum Morturn behind the cameraman is the bridge as you lived in the area did you ever go under thr bridge as i did it was sandy with rats found 303 rds coins and clay pipes after digging