The year is 1982.....

[stevesredvxr]

...........and my sister gets a horse and I get a Team Murray!!! 




Just un-earthed this photo at my mums....haven't seen it for years and years.
Ah, my childhood......it was the best. 

[BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN]

you sister looks dissapointed that she didn't get a bmx as well instead of a pony 


pic looks cool 

[oldschoolace]

Wouldn't have thought travellers would have gone down too well in Oldham back then Steve, must have been a tough life   



Cool pic 

[HUTCHMAN]

wow...that's exactly the same model of Murray i started out on.

[markyp]

that murray is a load of pony!!great pic

[NORTY40]

Great pic Steve 

[stevesredvxr]

Wouldn't have thought travellers would have gone down too well in Oldham back then Steve, must have been a tough life   



Cool pic 

You saying we look like travellers?.......fookin hell we do !!
Good job my dad won the pools shortly after this!! 

[oldschoolace]

It's that diddy horse against the coronation street backdrop Steve  not entirely in its natural setting. Just need a tatty transit van in shot behind the wall. 

so who kept there present longer you or your sister? 

[stevesredvxr]

We killed the horse and ate it as we had no money and we gave the bike back to the kid I nicked it off.......

[oldschoolace]

We killed the horse and ate it as we had no money and we gave the bike back to the kid I nicked it off.......

 

If your sister is anything like my niece the novelty of a horse soon wore off when the hard graft and misery of shoveling shit became apparent 

[stevesredvxr]

We killed the horse and ate it as we had no money and we gave the bike back to the kid I nicked it off.......

 

If your sister is anything like my niece the novelty of a horse soon wore off when the hard graft and misery of shoveling shit became apparent 

No mate......she left home, moved to Newbury and worked looking after racehorses for Paul Cole, Jenny Pitmann and Mick Shannon. She's now 44 and still has 3 horses.
Cant see why anyone would like horses.......but my daughter has now had the 'horse bug' for 3 years and at 22 quid for an hours lesson every week I'm hoping
she loses it soon!!!

[Taipan]

Cool old pic,chances are you still could have that team murray rusting away somewhere but I'll be amazed if your sister still has that horse in the shed out the back? 

[oldschoolace]

Bloody hell, respect to your sister then  i imagine pony's go through loads of hands through people not understanding the responsibilities and expense of ownership.

[stevesredvxr]

Cool old pic,chances are you still could have that team murray rusting away somewhere but I'll be amazed if your sister still has that horse in the shed out the back? 

The Team Murray got nicked about 3 months later.... (and before anyone else replies, no it wasnt nicked by Stevie Wonder)...
The horse lasted for quite a few years, although not in the back shed....we did have a proper stable for it!!! 

[meticulous]

and you still look like a pontipinne....   

[Hmoon27]

wow...that's exactly the same model of Murray i started out on.

Me too! Got a pic somewhere of Christmas day
Snapped the frame at the back & they replaced it with a big thick tubed fooker!

[retrogeezer]

I have one of those Murrays among my Murray collection: