Hammer and Pickle
7:48 Thu Sep 28
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Why's that then Zero?
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
7:43 Thu Sep 28
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Hammer and Pickle 9:37 Wed Sep 27
Sounds like you were a wanker then, too.
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J.Riddle
7:09 Thu Sep 28
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SE5, used to frequent at least half a dozen of them. Coconut Grove was decent for cocktails, but just across Oxford Street from St Christopher's Place used to get some lovely sorts downstairs at Binney St in Corks wine bar.
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eswing hammer
6:57 Thu Sep 28
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After the Liverpool charity shield about twenty of us were in the Duncannon in Charing Cross ,Millwalls main firm (l recognised a couple of them)came back from Watford away and put the windows thru ,we came out and l thought this is it we are gonna get done ,with that like the cavalry hundreds of West Ham came up from villiers st direction ,now they were outnumbered a good few punches were thrown and they fucked off in the direction of Trafalgar tube
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SE5 Hammer
3:16 Thu Sep 28
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Clubs - Beat Route, Wag, Crackers, Le Kilt, Limelight
Pubs - Spice of Life (downstairs); Hog in the Pound; Tattershall Castle, Punch & Judy
Restaurants - Coconut Grove,Peppermint Park, Kettners,
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Takashi Miike
1:37 Thu Sep 28
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Tattersall Castle was another decent night out. a boat moored on the embankment with a club downstairs
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delboy
1:14 Thu Sep 28
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BB's, there were a few of em, best one was in a basement in an office block opposite cannon st station, was like going into a club at 5 oclock in the evening, pissed crumpet everywhere at half nine trying to find their way to a station, loved that place
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JohnnyL
12:56 Thu Sep 28
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Kissogramms and Wet T Shirt contests were certainly mid 1980s - such a different era.
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Johnson
12:04 Thu Sep 28
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Live TV was 1995 not 1985.
Your 80s were so good you lost a decade Mike
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joe royal
11:57 Wed Sep 27
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Pony, if you went to the fox the rest didn't matter.
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White Pony
10:33 Wed Sep 27
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More early 90s for me but it basically consisted of The Intrepid Fox and various places around Soho. Fucked if I remember names,
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BRANDED
10:31 Wed Sep 27
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The Wag club.
The Hippodrome
The Limelight
There were a few Arab clubs
Wine bars
Ronnie Scotts
The blue posts
Black denim
Ripped denim
Etc
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wanstead_hammer
10:29 Wed Sep 27
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JohnnyL - might ave been. None on show when we went. Mate prob told us quiet night to get us in. Idiot!
Sure others will remember though.
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Hayzer
10:22 Wed Sep 27
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Sold the shop upstairs was robot, run by Chinese jimmy. He often had a go at the skinheads if they picked on young mods. Top fella, heard he died penniless mid 90s after gambling. Shame.
Terry and Belinda stokes had a record stall in there too.
Dick Coombes had a record shop opposite, there was carnaby cavern the crap tailors. The Regal that sold all the psychedelia clothes.
We had a tear up one Saturday with a load of arsenal, I got thrown through the shop window opposite the shakespears head. Got nicked as well.
There was the marquee and crackers the other end, jean pierres, le beat route, gossips, st Moritz.
I worked in Maddox st and spent all day all night up there blues 4 for a £1
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JohnnyL
10:09 Wed Sep 27
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Wanstead - Am sure it was Busbys that the Wet T-Shirt contests took place .... does that ring a bell with others ?
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JohnnyL
10:03 Wed Sep 27
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Wanstead - Am sure it was Busbys that the Wet T-Shirt contests took place .... does that ring a bell with others ?
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JohnnyL
10:01 Wed Sep 27
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Joe - I think that sums up the original thread ... back then we didn't do Warsaw, Prague etc - but the West End was something magical .... well for us anyway !
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wanstead_hammer
10:00 Wed Sep 27
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Yeh, forgot the Lyceum on Friday nights, but think that was late 70s.
And a mate was on the door at Busbys (Tott Ct rd) for a while. (in his dark whistle and a pair of steels! Haha). We only went there once to wind him up.
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joe royal
9:38 Wed Sep 27
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Pilled up and funbags?
Sounds like a night out in Warsaw.
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eswing hammer
9:37 Wed Sep 27
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'The cockney pride' When it was someone's birthday we used to go out in a suit and tie ,that cockney pride gaff used to have a short lobby ,me and two mates for some reason were standing in the doorway and these blokes no older than us thought we were bouncers asked if they could come in ,my mate just barely shook his head they then asked if there was anywhere else they could go ,again just a bare shake of the head ,to this day it was one of the funniest things I've seen.
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