Also going soon, good info cheers
@franc where do you live in Switzerland?
Clue, Deep Purple’s biggest hit
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And I work in that village where Bowie lived from 1976 to 1982.
His old place is really close to an abandoned swimming pool that’s pretty good for skating.
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Tangent but kind of stupid how Brixton claims Bowie, he lived there til he was about 3, not really formative years
Kinda stupid indeed. I thought Stansfield Road would be part of Stockwell, not Brixton, as it’s pretty much next to the skatepark.
Stockwell skatepark is closer to Brixton than Stockwell tube but you can’t argue with postcodes
When I didn’t know the area I once got the tube from Brixton to Stockwell to get there
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Haha, awesome!
I once got a room on Dalyell Road through Airbnb, the landlady there looked pretty Ginger Spicesque, which was far more exciting than skating by the place where Bowie was born on my way to the skatepark.
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That was my first south London address
Edit, just remembered this is wrong, my memory is bad
Saw some people on insta skating this.
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Yeah first people I knew to go up there were Sox and co, then Chopper went and it was getting worse, then the Carve Wicked lot went up the other day and said it’s pretty fucked. It’s continually sinking and I think its most skateable days are behind it.
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Went there last Sunday and it’s was not as Fucked as the pics in the article but we knew it would be worse by this week.
The bank/hip had already been pushed to a harsher angle and it was still very slowly moving when we were there. the angles had changed again with in the few hours we skated it.
I have a feeling the hip has toppled , to be expected and why there’s no pics now , just the road cracks opening even more ridiculously.
Spoke to the locals and it’s all down to someone building houses on the sloping land above . Was fine until that started . The land owner bought in hundreds of tonnes of earth with heavy vehicles and machinery to level some of the land and that with the pilings it all started to subside.
He’s gonna get one hefty bill me thinks.
But rad opportunity to skate something quite unique.
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Loosely related, I got my first issue of Thrasher in late 89, shortly after a major earthquake hit SF and the Bay area and that issue had an article with photos featuring skating on newly created kickers, banks and whatnot.
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I don’t know anything about Deep Purple.
Clue 2:
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Rad, nearly posted that
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There’s a road (the A625) next to Mam Torr in Derbyshire that’s similar - have cycled along it and it looks skateable, bit of a hike to get up to it though
Not best pics…
here ya go neddy. Though Franc is isn’t actually in Montreaux proper, just near there I think
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