What gang did you belong to?

yeah, what great ambassadors the wharfdale area has...

like richard whitley,

um...

an probs a lot of other people who are like him...

not the most 'cutting edge' area!

not long till i'm back at uni

kinda hoping for resits, so i can leave here early...

think yourselfs lucky i went to a school where the deputy head was my dad

i actually got my dad as a teacher for a year aswell, which was a nightmare & your right i couldnt get away with anything, couldnt skip school or owt.

but my dad was sound and as a teacher u only got grief of him if u gave it to him, so luckily i didnt get much shit from kids at school

I'm a bit older than you lot....I was one of the original skinheads...the first time around. We wore clothes that most of you will have never heard of....

the ubiquitous (sp) Dr. Martens (the original ones with 8 holes, tags on the back and stitching)
Levi sta-prest in (two tone were the most stylish)
Ben Shermans with button down collar
Fred Perry polo shirts
Fred Perry sweaters
Parallels (they were kinds slightly baggy pants but with parallel legs, quite often in bright colours)
Skinners (an unusual make of white baggy jeans)
Harrington jacket with tartan lining
Crombies in the winter.

Happy days....that was style.

they had skins in consett? were u a real skin a la hard mod or one of those poxy nazi sorts?

i used to quite shy at school, hung around with my 2 best mates, we were all on the hockey and cross country teams.

was friends with a few of the 'hard' lasses which was always handy. my sister was at school the same time as me (her last year, my first year) and she was really popular so that got me known.

then at about 13 started hangin around with my cousin and the lads from the village, one of whoms dad used to grow weed:chill: . so we used to skip school and get stoned in the graveyard.

then got my head down in the final year, got good grades, got into college and now uni, doing what i'd always said i wanted to do, but no one believed i would.

bump into people now and they haven't changed, got no life, no money, no job - losers.

love it when you see peeps who were right arrogant cocks, always thinking they were something else...


an they've got fukk all going for them now...


this happened to me the other week.

he was the one wi the rich daddie who always bought him all the best stuff...


but now daddies cut the cord an won't give him any money.

yeah i know happened the other week in promise, sum lad come up to me, do you remember me - i recognised him but couldn't remember his name.

he was the year above me and really cool, everyone fancied him.

he knew my name where i lived and everything, i i was like erm can't remember your name lol

when i told him what i was doing now he was totally gobsmacked, that i'd done sumthing with my life

Theres loads of people i see from school now and haven't changed in the slightest and doubt they ever will and a few who thought they were the best thing ever, i wouldn't give the time of day now.

"the pink fluffy pom pom hats!"

aren't u in the army

I was a twat.

my gang were the boys who run the school full stop!

How were you a twat Lee???

I wasn't. Just sounded gud. U've spoilt it now.

lol, oop's sorry

Suppose I was a swot really. Still knew how to have a laugh tho.

i was a proper charv like!
used to fight all the time!
mostly with peeps older than myself!
used to wear firetrap hoodie tho so in a way i was more stylish than the rest of them!

never caused trouble for nowt tho!

i sorted myself out by yr 11 tho!

Hard to say really !

I have had all the scallie clothes but gave them away, Ben Shermans / Rockports / Lacoste / Air max and so on !

Round mine there was always trouble between different areas and it normally happened when i was out !

I was a little shit sometimes when i was younger but never got caught - i never really hung round with people from school nor do i see them now and then used to just hang around with people from my area !

Heaton and Jesmond Dean used to be popular at the weekends for getting pissed in - bottle of cider and then fall over off two mouth fulls (bit like now really)

Far too many things on here to name like - i went thru a faze of lighting fires everywhere n throwing aerosols in, popping windows, running thru back gardens etc !

The list goes on and how ive moved on !

That was only last week.........