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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #25 on: November 01, 2006, 03:15 PM »
defo wickstead.that bowl was a shocker  ;)

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #26 on: November 01, 2006, 03:46 PM »
i remember as a kid going to a place over camden way that had a big bowl like that . we had to leave after 10 mins as loads of dodge folks came over trying to tax our bikes 

I think that was Stockwell skate park.

no it not stockwell ridden there loads of time and i do remember it being up by king`s cross way { might not be that bowl but something like it }as we rode there afterwards and that was a funny old ramp that just went straight to vert and was only 5 feet high .  

dont think its any where near camden there was a bowl in kentish town but there wernt any grass and trees near it just concrete and flats  :LolLolLolLol:

i know about the one in kentish town as well . this place i thinking about had grass all round it ie like a park . oh well i never know .

Is it Knebworth park skate park?  near Stevenage herts?  that had a big bowl at the end of the snake run, Green toad should remember it? or Stevenage kid

I remember it sh*t the life out of me anyways!

greentoad

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #27 on: November 01, 2006, 04:31 PM »
Hi all

I have been to the bowl, but my memory has gone where it was  :-[

I have passed the info around.

I found this though, which has some great pictures (use the NEXT PICTURE, top right ) -

http://www.nickwills.co.uk/srp/photos/detail.asp?iPic=437&iType=57

There are a few pictures of Stevenage and Knebworth.

J.

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #28 on: November 01, 2006, 04:34 PM »
the stevenage one was filled in but they other bits are still behind the big building

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #29 on: November 01, 2006, 04:42 PM »
Yeah Stevenge Bowes Lion skate park was where i spent 82-84, it went a bit skate board-ish a few years back....but i think the BMX's have taken it back now......i drive past it all the time...but haven't stopped and taken a look for years!

The three leaf clover was the best! 

The piccies of knebworth are class mate! when did they get rid of the park and track?  god that track knackered me out!   

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #30 on: November 01, 2006, 04:48 PM »
Just found this as well -

http://www.slowdown.co.uk/britishskatemuseum/britishskateparks/KNEBWORTH.asp

Quality place was Knebworth, train ride, see the famous and pretty 80's pop star in the village and then ride in great surroundings.....good times.

Knebworth did have a monster bowl though....anorther great place flattened.

Pics were taken when RAD mag got word of it being demolished in the late 80's and ran a photo shoot just before the bulldozers arrived.

J.

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #31 on: November 01, 2006, 05:42 PM »
its a shame they dont start building some proper concrete parks again in stead of these stupid fooking metal sh1t  bolax t1t cooont parks were you slip all over the place

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #32 on: November 01, 2006, 06:46 PM »
looks like my bully button at the mo' with all the weight ive put on since breaking my leg

kirk

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #33 on: November 02, 2006, 03:03 PM »
Thats me on the bike in the bowl!!!, I posted that pic on VBMX a few years back, I have loads more of that park including one of me on my TA at about the level of the fence, the thing with that bowl was to get out of the top you first had to  take off around three quarters of the way up the wall as it curved away, so just to get level you were around six feet of air plus the three feet to the fence level, it was a very scary view from there!.  I have a pic of the old roller geezer too, he looked like uncle albert on skates!!

greentoad

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #34 on: November 02, 2006, 03:42 PM »
Hi

Where is it?

Looking forward to seeing the pictures.

J.

Thats me on the bike in the bowl!!!, I posted that pic on VBMX a few years back, I have loads more of that park including one of me on my TA at about the level of the fence, the thing with that bowl was to get out of the top you first had to  take off around three quarters of the way up the wall as it curved away, so just to get level you were around six feet of air plus the three feet to the fence level, it was a very scary view from there!.  I have a pic of the old roller geezer too, he looked like uncle albert on skates!!

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #35 on: November 02, 2006, 09:19 PM »
good to see you posting up again kirk.

three feet outta that mo fo is some going.

Dave
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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #36 on: November 03, 2006, 04:38 PM »
You never got that much air kirk....... You left that job to me ;D

That coke machine there stills owes me the 25p it skanked off me and never gave me the can of coke

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #37 on: November 03, 2006, 05:57 PM »
Kirk/Sean,
there is a concrete bowl in Arnold but I didnt have my bike with me last time I went there
 :) DINGO :)

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #38 on: November 03, 2006, 11:09 PM »
show me the way, honey

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #39 on: November 03, 2006, 11:11 PM »
Sean its in Arnot Hill Park at the top, Andy went skating there last week  :daumenhoch:
 :) DINGO :)

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #40 on: November 04, 2006, 12:41 AM »
Road trip - Anot Hill - what's the closest train staion?   Nice hips   :smitten:

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #41 on: November 04, 2006, 10:36 AM »
bournemouth has a new concrete park,i took a look last week great bowl!!!! its located in kings park near the football stadium, council built so free to use well worth checking out :daumenhoch:
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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #42 on: November 07, 2006, 09:20 PM »
Will get a pic or two posted when I get back from here in sunny Vienna (it means nothing to me) good to be back dudes, Dingo, Sean, Andy we need to go check this bowl out!!!

Sean, i did get air somtimes, now I just got Hair

Andy

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #43 on: November 08, 2006, 10:11 AM »
the bowl in arnold is real nice, super mellow transitions, went there again on monday night but the council dont have it lit at night so its really only day time only

Me and dingo maybe having a early morning session up there on sunday

andy

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #44 on: November 08, 2006, 01:21 PM »
here's a couple of my mate Roger Clark at Knebworth in 1991




Bren Gunn

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #45 on: November 08, 2006, 09:53 PM »
Class pics :daumenhoch:

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #46 on: November 09, 2006, 11:04 PM »
Deffo Wickstead.A bunch of us went from "the humps" ( Broadmarsh Banks ,Nottm) in about 88 or 89.A couple of the guys dads dropped us off there for the day.As Kirk said you the lip was about 4 foot from the top,I over rotated an air in it and almost shit myself  ;D
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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #47 on: November 09, 2006, 11:55 PM »
Here`s another pic of Wickstead :



It`s only a thumbnail though  :(
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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #48 on: November 13, 2006, 10:21 PM »
Thats me too  :)

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Re: Where`s this then ?
« Reply #49 on: July 19, 2007, 09:10 PM »
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Thats me too 

Lol, level with the fence - are you sure?

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