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mangoboom

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Grays Skatepark
« on: November 19, 2008, 03:12 PM »
Grays Skatepark circa 1983 , now replaced by the ubiquitous bloc of flats.

Matt H (Torker 280 w. black Skyway Tuffs and CW handlebars wearing a nice Fila tracksuit top and Oakley Factory Pilot gloves)  and Nick H (Diamond Back Silver Streak, CW handlebars and Diadora trainers (!) getting HUGE air on the tabletop...




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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2008, 03:13 PM »
I remember that place.  I'm sure I only went there once though.......


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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2008, 05:36 PM »
I remember that place.  I'm sure I only went there once though.......



Can't think why Rob, looks rad as feck  ::)
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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2008, 05:53 PM »
That looks like someone has just dumped a load of cement  ::)
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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2008, 05:56 PM »
Funny though we all did a big protest that got published in the local paper when they threatened to close it down (which of course they did), it might just have been a big lump of concrete but it was OUR lump of concrete !


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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2008, 05:57 PM »
or just dumped a big load.

mangoboom

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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2008, 06:01 PM »
you all realise that this was the proving ground where Rom Bloke becaome the king of Rad that he is today ?

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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2008, 06:29 PM »
A BIG HUMP IS NOT A SKATEPARK!!! :LolLolLolLol:
« Last Edit: November 19, 2008, 06:31 PM by sallison »

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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2008, 06:33 PM »
There were some other "humps" out of shot , I think these pictures do the place a bit of a dis-service, however i thought i'd post them for their sheer radness.

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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2008, 06:39 PM »
I THINK ID  RARTHER RIDE A BLOCK OF FLATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :LolLolLolLol:

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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2008, 06:56 PM »
I THINK ID  RARTHER RIDE A BLOCK OF FLATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :LolLolLolLol:

But Shaun....that's your speciality  :LolLolLolLol:
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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2008, 08:51 PM »
top stuff matty.

shit skate park...good memories.

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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #12 on: November 19, 2008, 09:19 PM »
i see some familiar faces in that pic

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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #13 on: November 19, 2008, 10:16 PM »
Did they get the plans upside-down? Maybe that hump was meant to be a small bowl...

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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2008, 02:53 AM »
 yeah its a bit of an inverted skatepark innit?

the hump should be going towards the centre of the earth, not towards the sky.

those bloody council contractors must have had the plans upside down... :LolLolLolLol:
« Last Edit: November 21, 2008, 07:24 AM by tricknuts »
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mangoboom

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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #15 on: November 20, 2008, 08:35 AM »
exactly if you saw the rest of the park it looks exactky like it should have been inversed. I've got another pic I'll scan and post ! :)

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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #16 on: November 20, 2008, 12:29 PM »
That looks like someone has just dumped a load of cement  ::)

THATS GRAYS! LOL

RADHAB

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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #17 on: December 05, 2008, 04:38 PM »
That looks like someone has just dumped a load of cement  ::)

I thought Dave had just took a Dump TBH!  :LolLolLolLol:

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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #18 on: December 06, 2008, 04:13 PM »
as bad as it looked
some fun times were to be had @ the grays skatepark
the one we had in ockendon wasnt much better
but ya made do what what ya had in those days

yuppers nice fila matt i do recall ya having that one
i cant spy keany nor stef or meself  ;)

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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #19 on: October 15, 2009, 12:04 PM »
right i know its a old topic so dont start flaming me please lol


u do know they made a new skatepark in grays dont you ? theres on in blackshots  and one by the beach and another in tilbury .... granted not that good but better than nothing :)

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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #20 on: November 08, 2009, 01:53 PM »
I don't care what the skatepark looks like, if you lot were riding it and getting RAD then that's what it was all about. Takes me right back to see all those CW's and Whitewalls. I bet you spent hours down there ridin'. We were lucky in Nottm because (by pure fluke I'm sure) the load of humps our council built for us were actually quite good and are still there today. Compared to The Pipeline and Del Mar or even Southsea and Livi' our parks were crap but we loved every minute of riding them anyway!

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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #21 on: December 07, 2009, 05:01 PM »
fortunately fella rom is only 20 mins on the train, so a few of us were there most weekends

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Re: Grays Skatepark
« Reply #22 on: December 07, 2009, 07:10 PM »
I don't care what the skatepark looks like, if you lot were riding it and getting RAD then that's what it was all about. Takes me right back to see all those CW's and Whitewalls. I bet you spent hours down there ridin'. We were lucky in Nottm because (by pure fluke I'm sure) the load of humps our council built for us were actually quite good and are still there today.

based on what I've read on this forum I believe the Nottz Humps and Bumps are recently deceased as well...

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