Tag Archive | whitley bay
The One Where I Set Fire To The Hotel
During my residence in Whitley Bay in the late 1970′s I had perchance to venture up the street from the previously mentioned Per Mar Guest House to another salubrious residence that went by the name of “The Maroo”. The Maroo was of exactly the same design as the Per Mar being that they were in the same [...]
Video Saturday – The Tremeloes
1960s popular music beat combo band The Tremeloes, captured here on Top of the Pops in the 1980s, god knows why but we are where we are. So, its the early 1980s and I am living in The Queens pub in Whitley Bay, what kind of lifestyle is that for a young lad, living in [...]
Video Saturday – Billy Joel
When I lived in The Queens (a pub) in Whitley Bay (78-82) there were two cool places to go of an evening, this was before Whitley Bay became an ultra-cool place to be of a weekend, this was in the day when “sleaze” and “yesterdays town” were the two phrases that sprang to mind when [...]
A fashion icon for a week
Well actually, thats not strictly true, the Budgie jacket wasn’t the last time that fashion and I were on nodding acquaintance, it happened again in 1981. The early 1980s, those halcyon days of fashion, not, found me wandering in an oasis of bell bottom Wrangler jeans, demin shirts with pearl press studs instead of buttons [...]
Me and Ice Hockey
I’ve been to two competitive ice hockey games in my life, one was in Las Vegas in 1974 and was my introduction to an all-American blood and guts excuse for the crowd to shout a lot, listen to someone learning to play the Bontempi organ during the intervals, and watch grown men in lots of [...]
What first attracted you …
It was her arse that first attracted me to my future wife, for its was just her arse that I could see the first time I saw her. I had a small office at the top of the building, when I say small I mean the desk that it held was actually bigger than the [...]
Me and the earthquake
Wednesday morning, 1am, a 5.3 earthquake in the region, buildings shaking, things falling off shelves, people ringing their local radio stations all day long telling how their building shook and things fell off their shelves. What earthquake ?
