pipoldchap
Well, this is from the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania. I'm new to OMJ and evidently several years late, as I'd originally planned to follow a long gone thread about Leeds hairdressers, which I'll sneak in below anyway as part of a brief bout of nostalgia for student days in mid- to late-60s Leeds. Among several locals that we used, our house of unruly recidivists at 173 Belle Vue Road hung out mainly in The Queen on Burley Road. The landlord, Dennis, professed to dislike us students, but I think he appreciated our business even when it was mainly in the form of "just about skint again" half-pints and half-crown egg and chip lunches. We had some crazy nights in there especially when Dennis decided to organize yard-of-ale contests using a magnificent tube he kept hanging above the bar. Methought I heard the pub was no more, demolished, or some such. Is that the case? If so, how sad.That hairdresser thing, if anyone's still remotely interested: Derek "Tamla" Barnett cut my hair at Character Hairdressing in Great George St. He was quite a character, so his shop was well named. He kept a record player beside the barber chairs and (I kid you not) would break off in the middle of a haircut to change the record and/or dance to it. I remember him doing a little mod shuffle to "Shotgun Wedding" by Roy C (a great record, by the way). Daz, his colleague, was an ace face around town as was Jinner (?). When the hippie counterculture began to take over in 68, Derek grew out his hair and Jinner was said to have left for Katmandu!A propos, anyone remember the Cro-Magnon Club? And was that dancehall in one of the arcades called the Golden Disc or something similar? (I think it may have been the original Mecca). And the Boulevard (?) Club halfway on the road to York? They had some great dance contests there.pipoldchap (remember, it's a Dickensian year)
otis
its gone not demolished as its listed i think, soon to be a mini marketThink the houses you lived on on belle vue road are still there (was they left side or right side of the steps)The schools gone
LUFC442
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pipoldchap
Thanks for the warm welcome, 442--yes, my memory vaults do get a bit cobwebbed despite my "youth". Thanks, Otis, for word on The Queen--good to know that at least the building survives. Our house on BVR was to the left of the steps going up....or to the right, I guess, going down! When I came back in 2004, the house was still there and unchanged. But the entire terraced hillside that I remember below BVR had gone, which came as a shock, I must say. Much of it was primitive, I know, but it was a community and had a real atmosphere plus good corner shops and a great chippie.
I_luv_white
Welcome to the site Pipoldman. You are now an official member of the Bus Pass Service Crew. I seem to remember putting up the original Character Hairdressers thing after Otis had jogged my memory. Barnett and Daz were organizing an old mods annual reunion up to about 6 yrs ago according to my old mate Ken the Barber. Don't know if it's still going though. I knew Jinna well. Him and his oppo Pete Northend were always destined for the Hippie trail, havn't seen or heard of him since 1969. Do you remember the race riots around Burley in 1969 after Kenny Horsfall got stabbed? For about 3/4 nights it was bedlam. Asian shops and curry houses getting torched and much mayhem. I remember a photo in the YEP of Jim Nugent being arrested with about 6 coppers hanging off him. Happy days.
I_luv_white
I forgot to mention Pip, have you been reading a lot of Shakespeare lately?
pipoldchap
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otis
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gingernuts12849
Hi this is Ginner, as you rightly said, I used to hang out in Character Hairdressing and Derek was a totall one off unique guy. Daz (Kevin Boyle) was the sharpest dresser around and as an aside is also the cousin of Steve Phillips (Notting Hill Billies) I did eventually take the hippie trail though not with Pete Northend who I know went to Australia looking for a girl called Sandra and as far as I know he is still there. The dancehall was The Spinning Disc and was inside the "Old Mecca Arcade" The Cro Magnon was on Moortown Corner and was a motown / soul night club (no alcohol). At this time most would be members of either the Twisted Wheel in Manchester or the King Mojo (Stringfellows club in Sheffield) I went to both but preferred the Mojo. Beleive it or not, Peter Stringfellow was the best soul DJ alive with the best record collection this side of the Atlantic (how times change) Main mod venues in Leeds were BG club, La Concadora, The Del Rio, Ioannous Club, The King Charles pub, Whitelocks, and to some extent later on The Welcome Inn at Tinshill. Other renowned faces were Nod, Tony Swindale, Jack French. We used to shop at Cecil Gee, Austin Reed and a London shop called Badges and equipment for boots and parkas. Would love to hear more from Leeds mods but to be honest I can't remember any single one who would be seen dead at a football match it was simply not "cool" Skins by the way were never mods they came later and their style was working class cheap rather than mod where we were more John Steed dressed by Pierre Cardin. I agree Shotgun Wedding was a beaut track along with I spy for the FBI and hundreds of others - I know it sounds ageist but they don't make records like that anymore - much love and thanks for the memories - Ginner
Cuts
After a barmy week OMJ gets good again.Come on Ginner post some more stuff, Leeds mods, excellent, barbers, clubs, clothes, the hippie trail, this stuff needs documenting. Welcome aboard.
Foxy_Dread
Why is there a disproportionate number of ginners on OMJ, is it because we aren't accepted in the real world :D.
Harvest
Good reading Ginge, stick around.
Djpekingman
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luxury_scruff
More Ginge.
I_luv_white
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Cuts
Pip, how did you end up in PA? Where exactly are you?
pipoldchap
Oh shit, I completely missed this revived thread, the one that I first ventured on OMJ with, seems like ages ago. Shows how out of it I am these days.Amazing that Ginner picked up on it. Thanks, mate, for confirming the name of the Spinning Disc and the location of the Cro-Magnon. I join the call for you to post more about Leeds in the 60s. I don't reckon it's ageist at all to laud those old records. With all the technology available these days, most records now, at least to my well worn ears, still can't match most of those classics not least the soul stuff from the 60s and early 70s. Cuts, I live in the Poconos between Scranton and Stroudsburg. A job offer 26 years ago brought me over.
Nikyo
Went to Cromagnon once- heard about at Mojo, had pretty good sounds and vibe for a mid week trip from E. Riding.. Weird but couldn't find it again and me mates have since swore blind they'd never been... some memory blockage - mind, they're old gits now.
pipoldchap
The Cro was a small place and wasn't the easiest to find back then! If I remember rightly, you entered the club from a car park via a door at the back of a building on the corner.
Placid
The Queen is a Tesco now. In the 90's it was home to one of the best amateur rugby league teams in the north. And some gangsters who rowed with the East Leeds lot. Including an incident at trotters on York road.