w4hammer 10:44 Thu Oct 17
1978
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apparently a shit/unhappy year?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-7581421/A-study-claim-1978-Britains-unhappiest-year-ROGER-LEWIS-says-rot.html
fucking brilliant for me- got me a suzuki AP50 ( red) found a couple of pubs where we could drink at 28P a pint; two or three birds on the go and made my transition from piunk music to the likes of Evelyn Champagne King - shame; Sylvestre- Might Real and getting into nightclubs where birds smelt nice as opposed to spat at you in punk clubs...
and I had three holidays in bournemouth
fucking superb year for me
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normannomates
5:40 Wed Oct 23
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Ahh 1978
Remember it well
August 20.. First finger
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medwayhammer1
2:20 Wed Oct 23
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Crass Feeding of the Five Thousand
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jooliandix
1:03 Mon Oct 21
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I was 10,went to my first Hammers match,Bonzos testimonial ,we beat the yids 4-2
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only1billybonds
9:11 Mon Oct 21
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We played Millwall in a league game for the first time in years. Beat them 3-0, a very lively day on both sides of the river.
Darkness on the Edge of Town was released.
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azel senior
8:20 Mon Oct 21
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The year of AC/DC releasing Powerage and If you want blood.
Best studio and best live album in the same year? Doesn't get better than that!
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side effect
4:48 Sat Oct 19
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Blondie
Moved from Forest Gate to east ham. Ended up the worst move possible.
And left rokeby school.
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Godwinson
10:21 Fri Oct 18
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I started school that year so can't remember too much.
It seems despite the state of the country at the time people were able to thoroughly enjoy themselves!
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oioi
12:36 Fri Oct 18
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1978. I shot ONJ at The Intercontinental on Park Lane. She was stunning. Got drunk in the free bar afterwards with a couple of other photographers I knew. Nicked a life size cardboard cut out of ONJ, got it stuck in the revolving doors of the hotel, doorman helped us get it free then we drove off down Park Lane with ONJ sticking out of the sunroof of my mates VW beetle.
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BillyJenningsBoots
12:26 Fri Oct 18
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Great year for music and was the summer after I started at secondary school and Grease was the hit film of the year... There were a lot of girls emulating ONJ with very tight trousers!!!
Bought my first record Roxanne by the Police and outlandos d'amour my first lp...
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Bungo
11:51 Thu Oct 17
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Leonard Hatred 10:31 Thu Oct 17
Me too. I'd have been 12 though.
Beat Ipswich 3-0. David Cross hat trick.
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oioi
10:43 Thu Oct 17
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Great year for me. I was 26 & blagged a brilliant job working with pop/rock bands. Loads of parties and general good times. Very happy days.
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Pop Robson
10:36 Thu Oct 17
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Great age to start your WHU lifetime of misery
We'd have been in the POW back then drinking pints Ben Truman 1666 and playing Space Invaders on a TABLE !!
Got covered in beer and fag ash but it was leading tech back then, space saver get it !!!
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Leonard Hatred
10:31 Thu Oct 17
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I went to UP for the first time. I was 7.
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Pop Robson
10:28 Thu Oct 17
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Left school, had the summer off and signed on the dole for 11 weeks until I started my apprencticship
About £10 dole plus me paper round money and me Saturday job ££££££££s in
Local pub served us The Apollo in Paddington St, Skol Lager 46p a pint
Great days music was good, gigs were cheap and vinyl was every colour you could think off
West Ham went down, but it didn't matter back then
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chelmsfordhammer
9:21 Thu Oct 17
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Got into the mod scene in 78 and still into it now so a pretty special year for me.
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Joe C
7:42 Thu Oct 17
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Was a brilliant year for me, I was born in the December.
Mind you, I wasn’t due to be born until Feb 1979 - so maybe it wasn’t so great at first
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the coming of gary
7:27 Thu Oct 17
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all mod cons, parallel lines, this years model, germfree adolescents, plus all the classic buzzcocks singles
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Dan M
7:10 Thu Oct 17
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First time I've thought about it for years, but I'm glad to see the hotel is still there - https://www.britanniahotels.com/hotels/the-norbreck-castle-hotel
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Dan M
7:09 Thu Oct 17
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I was six. Mum, Dad and me went on holiday to Blackpool, staying at the Norbreck Castle Hotel. Also Ron (one of Dad's fellow cabbie mates) and his bird Flo came along (she later dumped him when he refused to leave his Mum behind - he eventually fell out with the taxi trade and after his old lady passed away he became a bit fat shut-in that was eventually found very dead in an armchair after the neighbours called the police).
Can't say I remember all that much but there's a photo of me in the Pleasure Beach wearing a black Harrington and a Hulk mask.
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