Accy Fair

talentedbutslow · 12-04-2006, 12:36

Accy fair........the only time you could get black peas and candyfloss....and get to perv on the women on the whip,the waltzer and the big wheel...

.my favourite though was the dodgem cars....always down the bottom of Ellisons Tenement...in those days the ride used to last about 2 mins....plenty of time to smash into anyone you wanted....

.one day I must have targetted someones girlfriend,cos I was chased all over the fair by 4 teddy boys and only escaped by running down the lane near the Hippodrome...where my Lambretta was parked......then quick getaway to Dutton St for a coffee.....forget the name of the place...but you looked outside and there were sunken toilets.....and always 10 scooters parked there....the view inside was usually more appealing cos some attractive birds got in there...and if you gauged it right...you could sit there and drool all night over 3 coffees

.....then.......up the road to abbey st chippy for a fish supper before going home......ahhh.....the memories....

Tal

pendy · 12-04-2006, 14:04

Aahh - happy days. I remember the waltzer, my friends Frances and Hilary and me getting spun round so that we slid sideways and those hen's bottom underskirts we all wore in the early 60s flying over our heads - and pretending to object! With the lads hanging round checking out the legs .... we looked forward to fair week all year.

talentedbutslow · 12-04-2006, 19:25

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Originally Posted by pendy

Aahh - happy days. I remember the waltzer, my friends Frances and Hilary and me getting spun round so that we slid sideways

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and those hen's bottom underskirts we all wore in the early 60s flying over our heads -

and pretending to object! With the lads hanging round checking out the legs .... we looked forward to fair week all year.

oh......so it was you I was perving on....

cashman · 12-04-2006, 23:42

the wage in the 60s was thirty bob a day on the gaff and the gaff lads were never short of a young lady or two. but thats another story.

Driller · 15-04-2006, 06:27

I was once standing under (what they called)the big wheel posing, kitted out in black crombie,ben shearman,two tone keks and the like when some silly cow on the wheel spewed all over me!.. street cred out the window!

cashman · 20-03-2009, 00:19

just reminded me this thread, Ellisons Tenement was where i first met "Tosh", though i was unconscious at the time.

would be mid/late 60s i reckon n we been mates since.

Taggy · 20-03-2009, 18:49

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Originally Posted by cashman

just reminded me this thread, Ellisons Tenement was where i first met "Tosh", though i was unconscious at the time.

would be mid/late 60s i reckon n we been mates since.

The mind boggles Cashy!!!LOL!

Best Regards - Taggy

maxwell silver · 20-03-2009, 19:29

Remember it well in mid-70's.Docs,levis,feather cuts,star jumpers etc.Had a great time with the lasses & a good few songs from back then bring back happy memories (the hustle,k.c & the sunshine band,maxine nightingale to name a few).Hated the speed way though,just used to pose round the side or have my tongue down some willing lasses throat.In fact beside the couple of times i did the speedway can't recall going on any other ride (opposite sex excluded).I've always been the same at the pleasure beach....just leave me in a bar,i'll meet you later.Soft arse.