When we was kids and we wanted to buy some think off another lad or your mate
and when we sold our bike down ickneild st oppersite the mint
there was three sercond hand shops owne by the same family
whom i did know personaly and went to school wit the lad whom his parents owned
would sell our bikes after we made them up with spare parts
and if we asked each oher or any other lad how much did you et for it
the expression was two and a kick ; [ meaning ] --- 2/ 6d half crown ; peice ;
then we would tour all the bombed pecks for spare frames and wheels
and we would go up ledasam st and sheepcote st cut [ cannal ] and make a iron barr into a
shape of an hook , with a long peice of rope to reach the centre of the cut and dragg i
and fish out ll the stolen bikes and dumped by the ledsam and ryland street lads
and clean them up and use them nd take them down for two and a kick .
most of them was thrown in the cannal by old man clarkies scrap yard of
his cannal in let to his yard which was just along from monument rd ;
and when we sold our bike down ickneild st oppersite the mint
there was three sercond hand shops owne by the same family
whom i did know personaly and went to school wit the lad whom his parents owned
would sell our bikes after we made them up with spare parts
and if we asked each oher or any other lad how much did you et for it
the expression was two and a kick ; [ meaning ] --- 2/ 6d half crown ; peice ;
then we would tour all the bombed pecks for spare frames and wheels
and we would go up ledasam st and sheepcote st cut [ cannal ] and make a iron barr into a
shape of an hook , with a long peice of rope to reach the centre of the cut and dragg i
and fish out ll the stolen bikes and dumped by the ledsam and ryland street lads
and clean them up and use them nd take them down for two and a kick .
most of them was thrown in the cannal by old man clarkies scrap yard of
his cannal in let to his yard which was just along from monument rd ;