Edgware and Lisbon Green are/were, as far as I know, the same place.
Yes same park. It was on Penfold Street, Lisson Grove (or as they describe it Lisson Green), London NW1 - off the Edgware Road…
So the origin of the second Meanwhile 2 pipe is still a mystery…
(@smasher Where did the clipping come from BTW? That’s exactly the one I was recalling having seen - and spent a good hour searching for without tracking it down)
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Sorry for jumping in, I didn’t see the question was directed at you @kalson_77 .
‘Sicky’ on the left. One of those missing bricks might be in my dads garage
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Yes! Dude on the left is Sicky. He was a total nutter on a board. Dave the “Hairy Hippy” is also a good egg and stalwart of the Leics scene. He runs Conflict Skates
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was it Sicky who had the minramp in the garden, next to the train tracks?
Not sure, as I didn’t know him personally. I was a grom at that point. I remember someone saying his dad had a carpet shop in Earl Shilton, so he may have lived around those parts?
thx, that’s in the right direction - we skated there on the way to Coventry.
Google maps reveals no train tracks though, Hinckley maybe.
Anyway, wooden derail finished.
This was a lot of fun whilst it lasted. Swanage Grammar School pool.
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That looks amazing
When was that in existence?
As a kid, wed go there every year on holiday.
@Londonskater : 2004-06 iirc. It was kept pretty quiet for the most part during that time. Towards the end a load of people found out about it and it even ended up in an article in Document (I think). I remember a photo of Nick Zorlac doing a feeble on the left wall. It was one of those things that wasn’t going to last forever but I was still gutted when I turned up one day and it was full of rubble.
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I mentioned another indoor pool at a hotel/ country club complex. Here it is:
•As it was in it’s heyday.
•When it was skateable.
The first few times skating it there was no graffiti or roll ins. As soon as that happened we all knew it’s days were numbered.
•When it became a bust and was filled with oily, paint infused water.
After a few fires on the site and travellers getting in and pulling out the copper cables and other general fuckwittery it became a total bust and the landowners made the pool unskateable by initially painting the pool walls with anti-climb paint and then filling it to the brim with swamp water.
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Down near Bournemouth right? I was there one evening with a few heads from Bristol and some local gnarler was there who ended up dislocating his shoulder when he slammed off the transition. And then the police showed up and politely moved us on.
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I skated that with some right nutters.
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That’s right. The shoulder incident would have been James Breeze - like you say, proper gnarler and super nice guy. That happened towards the end of it’s skateable life. I bumped into Breezy on a Slades Farm visit and he had some sort of elaborate sling contraption on but was still carving about like a nutter and growling, and he filled me in on the slam. I didn’t ever go back to skate the pool after that as all the locs said it was done.
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That’s the one that Dave Allen had a back smith over the light cover at, right?
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Yep, that’s the one. It was super slippy as it was made from small mosaic tiles. There are a couple of tricks there in that ‘Brighten’ video - James Kilpatrick and Tom Felix iirc.
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