zico I know that road so well - It's Ivegate.
See the Tetley's pub sign lower down on the left hand side? That's The Unicorn pub, the pub that my Dad and brothers went in on a daily basis. It had a front room with a pool table in it, and a big back room. Opposite it, but a bit further up is The Old Crown pub. You can see the pub sign. It has strippers on a lunch time..
You may be able to see the Freeman Hardy & Willis sign on the right - that's where I got my 'Whizz Kid' trainers from.
The Yates's sold Aussie Wine and my brothers got me rotten drunk on two glasses one night.
A few 'burnt in' memories of that place:
1) Whilst playing pool, the chaps had a direct view into the hairdressers opposite and they were like lions observing gazelles. Ugly lions mind...
2) There was pie shop next to the hairdressers. The drinkers lived on warm pies.
3) Steve Burke (?) was the son/stepson of the landlord/landlady Maureen & Keith (?). He was ointment and had a smashing red Tacchini sweater with thin white stripes on the upper chest. I never saw another one.
4) The jukebox contained songs such as UB40's 'One In Ten', which sounded really good.
5) On my 18th birthday in 1983, I went into town and signed on. My stint at Rumbelows had come to an end. I then went to Boots and bought 'Hold Me Now' by The Thompson Twins and went to The Unicorn to see my Dad and brothers. Drinks were not forthcoming. I probably bought a bottle of Ayingabrau and peeled the foil label from the neck. At night a few of us went to Cavernes to do some dancing. I'd have been stick thin and probably didn't dance.
6) At the bottom of that road, to the right, where the white car is turning, was Carters sports shop. it contained Pringle sweaters. Turn left at the bottom of that road and my bus top was there, just outside a department store called Brown & Muffs. I didn't know at the time that the word Muff could mean fanny.
I can still feel in my legs what it was like to walk down that steep street, and also back up it.
The far bottom right of that photo (as you look at it) - the paving slabs. That's where Bradford mullered a contingent of Aberdeen and Spurs. The lad who threw that big punch drank with me in The Lane Ends Pub. When that remix song (Black Legend - 'You See The Trouble With Me') came on the jukebox, he would dance around the pub.
