Fradley?
nah
There is a skatepark in Fradley though but it’s pretty shit, not been there in years because a mate got angry with a 10 year old cheeky cunt and nearly pushed his eyes into his head. Not good.
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Haha ace… I’ve skated that park a few times as my mate used to live around the corner. Not been there in a looooooong time.
Telly Savalas (Kojak) did 3 similar VOs on Birmingham, Portsmouth and Aberdeen around 1980.
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I’ve only seen the Portsmouth)one. Look forward to giving this a watch later.
Incidentally, my wayward, somewhat playboy uncle used to hang out with Telly Savalas - he knew how to have a good time by all accounts.
There’s quite a few new town films that are worth a watch, featured music / fashion / architecture all good - I’ll look out some links
That Birmingham one is great, a bit WTF with Savalas in there ha - we need to hear your uncle’s stories!
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Yellow Banks in Gateshead, 1980s - located between two high rises and still there
Photos by Ian Piercy
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The weirdest of the new town films is probably this 1977 feature film, paid for by the Cumbernauld Development Corporation
Fenella Fielding plays a kind of Bond-villain who trys to hi-jack Cumbernauld by releasing a virus into the town…
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I’ve just watched that in it’s entirety. It was absolutely cracked. Wtf? 
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- there’s a lot to take in, kinda psychedelic brutalist crime drama I guess?
Apparently apart from the main characters the rest of the cast were local residents & councillors (who funded it)
Making these sound like they are just the thing i’m looking for in a series to get my teeth in to.
I was in Cumbernauld today, for a funeral. About the most fun you can have there.
Rimbaud was from Cumbernauld.
Here’s the original promo. Doesn’t look like that now, and I think Abronhill has the cheapest houses in Scotland:
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This one’s got skateboarding in it.
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This is from the '90s! That’s quite late in the day to be promoting Livingston!
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Yeah, it was well and truly over by then.
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This one’s a bit of a benchmark one for me, but obviously I’d be biased. Skip to 18:08 for the ‘technology’ part, with some truly excellent 1971 space-aged music. The intro and outro music of the actual video is really good too.
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This spot is still there and still gets skated! So dope. Ian is a friend of mine too, proper good dude.
The nuclear church in Sheff is cool.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/modernmooch.com/2018/08/19/trinity-united-reform-church-sheffield/amp/
Bit of local history to it architecturally.
There’s 2 street 1/4s at the car park entrance, skated by baines at 13secs in this
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So good!
Stephen’s Modern Mooch blog is a good ref for possible spots all over the North
Likewise Sacred Suburbs, some blocks & stairs on the first post (though now demolished)
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