The Cypriots and life in North London in the 70's
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by bill cobbett » Sun Sep 20, 2009 1:04 pm
Some more personal reflections a childhood in '60s London ...
Like childhoods everywhere, the Summers seemed long and dry and it never seemed to rain (!). The Winters were always foggy, such fogs or smogs or pea-soupers as we used to call them in London.
Also recall the smells, particularly over at a main line train terminus near us which reeked of soot and coal smoke in those last days of steam trains and the open coal fires were still a major way to keep warm during the Winter. The pubs, well they were more like ale-houses, smelt of stale beer, when you walked past.
As has been said above, we were poor and didn't know it and our friends were either other CYs or Irish (the other main immigrant group in our parts).
As to the '70s, we discovered fashion didn't we with our new found prosperity with our male obcessions for such things as Ben Sherman shirts, Harrington jackets, Crombie overcoats, near bespoke suits at Burtons, Levis and those stay-pressed slacks whose brand name fails me to recall.
Like childhoods everywhere, the Summers seemed long and dry and it never seemed to rain (!). The Winters were always foggy, such fogs or smogs or pea-soupers as we used to call them in London.
Also recall the smells, particularly over at a main line train terminus near us which reeked of soot and coal smoke in those last days of steam trains and the open coal fires were still a major way to keep warm during the Winter. The pubs, well they were more like ale-houses, smelt of stale beer, when you walked past.
As has been said above, we were poor and didn't know it and our friends were either other CYs or Irish (the other main immigrant group in our parts).
As to the '70s, we discovered fashion didn't we with our new found prosperity with our male obcessions for such things as Ben Sherman shirts, Harrington jackets, Crombie overcoats, near bespoke suits at Burtons, Levis and those stay-pressed slacks whose brand name fails me to recall.
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by Get Real! » Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:23 am
Nikitas wrote:bell bottoms yes, they were regulation wear for teens and early 20s, but the cardboard thingy no, I never knew about it till today.
A guy I knew who wore such monstrosities was in a band, and he claimed that it kept the bells nice and stiff!
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