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Post by elystokie on May 7, 2010 19:32:40 GMT
As someone who grew up there I have great memories and a lot of fondness for the place, I learned a long time ago not to worry about the stigma that some attach to the place. Anyhow, Bentilee library are inviting submissions for a possible book from current or former residents, just a bit of personal history I think is what they're after and memories of how it used to be. My mums been there near enough since it was built and I honestly don't think she'd live anywhere else, same with my Dad when he was alive. Standing by for the inevitable witticisms and hilarious (if wrongly spelled ;D) comments from lord eff
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Post by chattyladypotter on May 7, 2010 21:08:34 GMT
I have experienced living and working in bentilee in the late 70's and TBH it was a shithole and i have no fond memories apart from some friends for life. the people i met were honest and hardworking (for the most part) the area however was sooooo depressing
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Post by stokie25 on May 7, 2010 21:11:22 GMT
My grand parents have lived there since they were married in the 50's and still live in the same house.
I have a lot of fond memories there, christmas and sleep overs etc.....people shouldn't be so quick to judge, it may not be nice but the people certainly are!
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Post by Ron Jeremy on May 7, 2010 21:16:30 GMT
Very true Shell, my Nan still lives there now and my Mum grew up there, all of the old people who live there are nice, it's just the majority of the younger generation who live there now. I was going my nans on th bus a couple of weeks back, I went past a bus stop and there was a woman about 30 with a can of stella and this was about 12 o clock in the afternoon
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Post by chattyladypotter on May 7, 2010 21:20:57 GMT
Very true Shell, my Nan still lives there now and my Mum grew up there, all of the old people who live there are nice, it's just the majority of the younger generation who live there now. I was going my nans on th bus a couple of weeks back, I went past a bus stop and there was a woman about 30 with a can of stella and this was about 12 o clock in the afternoon ohhhhhh duck you've led a sheltered life if that is shocking!! lol
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Post by Ron Jeremy on May 7, 2010 21:23:25 GMT
Very true Shell, my Nan still lives there now and my Mum grew up there, all of the old people who live there are nice, it's just the majority of the younger generation who live there now. I was going my nans on th bus a couple of weeks back, I went past a bus stop and there was a woman about 30 with a can of stella and this was about 12 o clock in the afternoon ohhhhhh duck you've led a sheltered life if that is shocking!! lol ;D ;D After I wrote that I did think about walking around Tunstall for 2 minutes and realised how unshocking it is. ;D But it does sum it up really though dunt it. ;d
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Post by stokie25 on May 7, 2010 21:26:43 GMT
My mum grew up there too grant, however she transpired to be an alcoholic, selfish bitch who'd shaft her own mother to get on in life....but that's a different thread My grand folks are awesome and they'll always have me
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Post by Orbs on May 7, 2010 21:28:13 GMT
The butcher man in the red van? ;D
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Post by stokie25 on May 7, 2010 21:31:34 GMT
Does the 'egg man' still knock about? ;D
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Post by Northy on May 7, 2010 21:49:26 GMT
The wifes garn lived there, I only went a couple of times; when she died they raffled off the contents of the house, the wife won the cooker about 20 years old and covered in grease, everybody thought how glad they were not to win it, and which poor bugger had to take it to the tip
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Post by poisonedmonkey on May 8, 2010 1:00:50 GMT
Twigg street chippy.......don't know if that counts but it's as far as i've got
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Post by kidsgrove4 on May 8, 2010 3:23:05 GMT
It isn't a great end of town. All said and done, I am sure there are plenty of great people there. Went a pub on the main drag a fair few times. I had a cousin who lived there. They all seemed friendly enough, and I was an Aussie in Bentilee, so a little different to their normal punters. It's no Kidsgrove, though, let's face it ! .
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Post by elystokie on May 8, 2010 7:56:11 GMT
Cheers folks keep 'em coming. My mum is in the process of writing something as are a couple of family friends. I'll try and find a way of forwarding this thread to the relevant person up there. Anyone ever play in the Sunday afternoon 'football' match on the bottom green? All 3 greens were full of players on a Sunday actually, haven't seen anyone playing on there for years, except my lad and me. ;D
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Post by lordeffinghamhunt on May 8, 2010 8:10:57 GMT
Where shall one start. Park hampers, house numbers painted by the front door, sterilized milk, dismantled cars on the drives, gardens that looked like jungles, settees in front gardens, pairs of trainers dangling from telegraph wires, teenage girls pushing prams around, scrawny looking dogs shagging on every street corner and youths carrying a neighbors telly across the street whilst the neighbor is out. Great place great memories
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Post by elystokie on May 8, 2010 8:23:02 GMT
Where shall one start. Park hampers, house numbers painted by the front door, sterilized milk, dismantled cars on the drives, gardens that looked like jungles, settees in front gardens, pairs of trainers dangling from telegraph wires, teenage girls pushing prams around, scrawny looking dogs shagging on every street corner and youths carrying a neighbors telly across the street whilst the neighbor is out. Great place great memories I can see you've put a lot of effort in there eff, almost everything is correctly spelled Do remember though - the spellchecker you're using spells words the American way
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Post by tazi on May 8, 2010 8:31:52 GMT
Paedofile looking ice cream men driving round with the words 'FIND THAT CHILD' on the back of their van.
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Post by bigcashprizes on May 8, 2010 8:47:37 GMT
Threshers with the big perspex cage to stop robbers. The only other place i've seen them is in Liverpool
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Post by skiptanbroonacari on May 8, 2010 11:26:52 GMT
Hedge-hopping Willfield baths Doing "Doffers" over the brook* Going through Lion's Den* Nogger on 3 Greens Getting chased by The Abbey Mafia
*more Bucknall really
There are FAR worse places in Stoke-on-Trent
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Post by chopandmash on May 8, 2010 11:30:54 GMT
the off licence at the back of the spring cottage,always loved the smell of stale ale when you went in,buying airfix models from the post office on dawlish drive,the green shop van,im getting all dewy eyed.
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Post by boslemstokie on May 8, 2010 14:19:01 GMT
Hedge-hopping Willfield baths Doing "Doffers" over the brook* Going through Lion's Den* Nogger on 3 Greens Getting chased by The Abbey Mafia *more Bucknall really There are FAR worse places in Stoke-on-Trent that whole list brings bag memories, especially the lions den, use to go through with no torch , is it still accesible or is it secure now?
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Post by skiptanbroonacari on May 8, 2010 14:42:54 GMT
Not been down there for years Boslem so I wouldn't know. Maybe I'll take the dog for a walk over there so I can have a look.
You still riding your scooter?
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Post by frenchie on May 8, 2010 14:55:18 GMT
courting a bird on beverley drive, lost a full wage packet!! about 1974. It was handed in to the beverley pub intact. Lived up wetley common in those days, noone left their name, the landlord knew the girl i was courting and told her he had my wage packet.
Fantastic people.
vive la paix
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Post by frogs_carer on May 8, 2010 15:11:53 GMT
courting a bird on beverley drive, lost a full wage packet!! about 1974. It was handed in to the beverley pub intact. Lived up wetley common in those days, noone left their name, the landlord knew the girl i was courting and told her he had my wage packet. Fantastic people. vive la paix[/quote Was that when you were working as a rent boy ;D
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Post by boslemstokie on May 8, 2010 16:12:00 GMT
Not been down there for years Boslem so I wouldn't know. Maybe I'll take the dog for a walk over there so I can have a look. You still riding your scooter? ???scooter??? Just sold it??? Do you know me? Ain't got a clue who you are edit... Just found the old thread, boy you've got a good memory skiptan, did you ever get a scooter??
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Post by frenchie on May 8, 2010 16:21:10 GMT
Oi, you are supposed to be my carer, I take insults like that very personally and may report you to admin for intimating I am a rent boy!!!!!
See you up canal street tomorrow then!
vive la paix
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Post by Blackpoolstokie on May 8, 2010 17:07:13 GMT
Stanworths fair comeing onto the ashcarpark opp norwich road where the had the massive bonfires,hanging/dossing around the shops next to the beverley pub happy days
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Post by richie22 on Apr 7, 2019 6:45:03 GMT
Good morning all, I need an answer to something that’s bugged me all week since reminiscing with my brother about our childhood. I grew up on Aylesbury 82-91 and then thornhill (posh end of the reservation). At Aylesbury we had two shop vans that came around, Walter in a blue/green van that sold a little of everything happy shopper did inc. 10p mixtures. and then very late at night another van came around, this time a white van that we never went on.... my old dear seems to think the first van dissapeared soon after old Walter had been beaten up badly over a line of credit, we know he’s now long dead RIP. ‘Thank you for letting us ride on the side step from the club up to the top green’ many happy memories ...... The second van would do his round maybe 10-11 pm sometimes later, I would only ever see him when leaving the club late on a Friday or Saturday. Mum has a hazey thought that he used to peddle ‘drugs’ of some sort..... any input on these two characters is much appreciated. Bentilee was a great place to live I can’t answer if it still is, it was full of these charecters, we never had money but we got by ok. Summers were spent on our bikes or down the bev park trying to jump ‘stone roses’ and walking through the tunnel. Weekend evenings getting smoked out of ubberly club. And then when we moved to thornhill we had park hall, Many happy times
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Post by richie22 on Apr 7, 2019 6:46:32 GMT
Stanworths fair comeing onto the ashcarpark opp norwich road where the had the massive bonfires,hanging/dossing around the shops next to the beverley pub happy days Eurythmics on a loop! You could hear the music from anywhere on the estate
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Post by Linx on Apr 7, 2019 7:43:05 GMT
My aunt and uncle lived there in the 60s and 70s and I always remembered it as an attractive estate with neat houses and well tended gardens. I was shocked when I revisited it in the 1990s. All boarded up houses, fly tipped junk, and graffiti. Definitely hit a low point. Having said that, it seems to have been restored back to how it used to be in most of the area, when I go back there now.
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Post by xchpotter on Apr 7, 2019 11:33:07 GMT
Just seen some of the posters on this thread....whatever happened to Lordeffingham?
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