Grimsby Telegraph Mon 25th.

[Lane Ender]

Those Harringtions Crombies were laughably cheap and horrible. Made to measure was the way.
I always thought the Barathea blazer with a Yorkshire Rose badge was a great look.
There a few original skinheads (all approaching 65!) who run a ska night and all wear the original gear from the sixties. Not like the fifty year old "mods" who claim to have been around when it all started mid sixties.

Those Blazers looked well.
And as fashion progressed the Geordies still turned up at the Lane in their dockers and donkey jackets through the 70s thinking it was still fashionable

 

[bulmer]

My memory's going, I should know that seeing as I was there in both decades

That's WHY your memories going m8 I'm in the same boat

 

[Harry's Game]

From the press...

Named and shamed for all to see.

• Derem Smith, 27, of Bridby Street, Sheffield, was charged with assaulting a constable and using threatening/abusive words/behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm and distress, and will appear at Grimsby Magistrates' Court on August 3

• Brett Houldworth, 29, of Wadsworth Avenue, Sheffield, was charged with assaulting a constable and will appear at Grimsby Magistrates' Court on August 3.

• Perry Keith Smith, 30, of Garland Close, Westfield, Sheffield, was charged with assault and will appear at Grimsby Magistrates' Court on August 3.

27.

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FFS. This is England 2016.

 

[Dkc]

The ones that get nicked aren't always guilty. Sometimes they are just unlucky.

 

[Lane Ender]

27.

29.

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FFS. This is England 2016.

They ain't actually kids are they?

 

[larkymasher]

From the press...

Named and shamed for all to see.

• Derem Smith, 27, of Bridby Street, Sheffield, was charged with assaulting a constable and using threatening/abusive words/behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm and distress, and will appear at Grimsby Magistrates' Court on August 3

• Brett Houldworth, 29, of Wadsworth Avenue, Sheffield, was charged with assaulting a constable and will appear at Grimsby Magistrates' Court on August 3.

• Perry Keith Smith, 30, of Garland Close, Westfield, Sheffield, was charged with assault and will appear at Grimsby Magistrates' Court on August 3.

Fucking Derem, Brett and Perry............. sounds like a Bee Gees tribute act.

 

[Grappler]

Early 69-Early71 Skinheads
Early 71- Mid 72 Suedeheads

I thought the name Suedehead was invented by Richard Allan, who wrote the Skinhead books?

 

[EddieColquhoun]

. You're thinking of the 80's. Hoolie wear in the 70's was dockers, Harrington coats, Ben Sherman and donkey jackets

Blades had a game called off about 81/82, Chelsea were at Swillsborough. A large group of Blades dressed in Fila, Pringle and Tacchini on Penistone Road were mocking the Wendies in their donkey jackets.

 

[Grappler]

Too right Sean Sheepskins and Crombies (and not the cheap shit from Harringtons in the Castle Market)
Footwear - brogues,loafers.

With a load of segs in the heel and sole

 

[Grappler]

Alright everybody

Let yer hair down

Let yer hair down

I want to see everybody on yer seat, clap yer hands and stamp yer feet

I said get down and get with it

Got the original version of that by Little Richard, probably the only other bloke on the planet with a voice as powerful as Noddy Holder!

 

[Grappler]

Those Harringtions Crombies were laughably cheap and horrible. Made to measure was the way.
I always thought the Barathea blazer with a Yorkshire Rose badge was a great look.
There a few original skinheads (all approaching 65!) who run a ska night and all wear the original gear from the sixties. Not like the fifty year old "mods" who claim to have been around when it all started mid sixties.

Agreed, to me, that look was more akin to Mods than Skinheads, remember loads of older lads dressed like that

 

[South London Blade]

You've forgotten Levi Sta Prest.

Was he a forward or defender?

 

[Lane Ender]

With a load of segs in the heel and sole

Yep black brogues loaded up with segs also had a pair of Oxfords with them.

 

[Lane Ender]

I thought the name Suedehead was invented by Richard Allan, who wrote the Skinhead books?

Suedes were the next move on a lot smarter even the old man liked the style
More than the skinhead gear he went fucking mad when I turned up on the doorstep with checked Sherman , dockers, bracers and rolled up levies

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Real men dressed like this in the early 70's.

 

[Lane Ender]

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Real men dressed like this in the early 70's.

Celtic fans 72-73

 

[Grappler]

Suedes were the next move on a lot smarter even the old man liked the style
More than the skinhead gear he went fucking mad when I turned up on the doorstep with checked Sherman , dockers, bracers and rolled up levies

yes I remember the look but don't remember people using the name Suedehead until that book came out, I could be wrong of course, I was only about 9 years old at the time

 

[Lane Ender]

yes I remember the look but don't remember people using the name Suedehead until that book came out, I could be wrong of course, I was only about 9 years old at the time

I reckon you're right

 

[Neil smith]

The report said a car windscreen was smashed an that was caused by some nob head from Grimsby throwing his can of beer or could AV been cider ( fruits of the forest)... Over the line of police over the sheff Utd fans an onto the front of the car just driving past the market ( Ford Focus ) I watched it.. Hope that clears the car windscreen story !!!!

 

[vorpal blade]

Was it the 1980 match at Cleethorpes when there was a lot of bother too? A pub was smashed up and I remember skirmishes on the road to the Blundell Park....I also remember watching two old ladies sitting on a bus in packamacs pointing at the fighting and laughing at it all - I've got to say I think they had the right idea.

 

[Mad Mick]

I was a skinhead in the late 60's. We wore dockers and loafers on our feet. I even bought some green dockers in 1969 to go with my green ex army dungarees. I think Millwall used to wear the green dungarees. Shirts where Ben Sherman or Fred Perry. Jumpers were usually Slazenger. Jeans were Wrangler and quite baggy, we rolled them up to show all the boot and some of the football socks we wore. I think my green dockers went up about 10 inch, so jeans were nearly long shorts.
Trousers were 2 toned Levi Stay Press. Jackets were Wrangler or Levi and those baseball type jackets. We also wore dark blue Crombies or short raincoats. A mate of mine had a brown Crombie with black leather lapels. Suits were often 2 tone. A lot of good stuff was made to measure. We wore bracers and I had a Pork Pie hat. Cant think of much else, but these would be early 69 to late 70. By late 71 I was growing my hair long, and fashion changed completely. I was 18 in 1969.

 

[sitwell]

Back in the day, it may well have been true that the top lads didn't kick off with civilians but there were always groups of wannabes. Cowardly cunts who'd only attack you if they had the numbers, often picking on groups of two or three, they weren't there for fighting, they were there to kick some fuckers' heads in and not get hurt in the process.
And regularly, places got trashed and people who had nowt to do with football got there premises smashed up

The idea of a golden age of chivalrous hooligans is a myth, perpetrated by trash films by the likes of Nick Love, and has helped to inspire a new generation of wankers, who get brave in a mob and would shit themselves one on one.

It was scary in the eighties (and, from what I've heard, even more so in the 70s when the coppers didn't give a fuck and there were regular pitched battles inside the ground) and it will put a lot of people off from going if it gets like that again.

And it was a £40 fine or community service for threatening behaviour.
And Donkey jackets were much better with N C B on the back.

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

Those Harringtions Crombies were laughably cheap and horrible. Made to measure was the way.
I always thought the Barathea blazer with a Yorkshire Rose badge was a great look.
There a few original skinheads (all approaching 65!) who run a ska night and all wear the original gear from the sixties. Not like the fifty year old "mods" who claim to have been around when it all started mid sixties.

I had a a couple of suits made by Isador Newman . 2no ticket pockets and 16 buttons up each sleeve,

Had a Barathea blazer with the Yorkshire Rose Badge . Wore it in Blackpool once , walking down the road , about 30 lads with the same Blazers on the opposite side of the road. Only one difference , there badge was red.

UTB

 

[Jehovah]

I had a a couple of suits made by Isador Newman . 2no ticket pockets and 16 buttons up each sleeve,

Had a Barathea blazer with the Yorkshire Rose Badge . Wore it in Blackpool once , walking down the road , about 30 lads with the same Blazers on the opposite side of the road. Only one difference , there badge was red.

UTB

Me and my mate at school used to joke that you could judge the success of a man by how many keys he had and how many buttons he had on his sleeves. We would have been getting your autograph with 16 buttons!

 

[Hartley Hare]

Now that is a nice full bent billiard.

HH

 

[Sean Thornton]

Celtic fans 72-73 to present date

Quick edit

 

[Sean Thornton]

Agreed, to me, that look was more akin to Mods than Skinheads, remember loads of older lads dressed like that

I remember as a kid seeing much older lads who were mods being very smartly dressed and having a female family member who was a mod. Blazers were part of it and picked up later.
Think some mods became skinheads, others into flower power while others had shorter haircuts and remained smart dressers. I remember suede bomber jackets and skinners being popular along with Timpsons Royal shoes and desert boots. At lot of these lads were into soul still. The northern soul scene borrowed much from the original mods until the stupid baggy trousers fashion which oddly enough happened when the hardcore nighter goers had moved back to straight leg jeans and cords.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Blades had a game called off about 81/82, Chelsea were at Swillsborough. A large group of Blades dressed in Fila, Pringle and Tacchini on Penistone Road were mocking the Wendies in their donkey jackets.

This is true. I remember working with a big Pig fan and a DJ was his Matchday wear of choice.

 

[dublin 10 blade]

Blades had a game called off about 81/82, Chelsea were at Swillsborough. A large group of Blades dressed in Fila, Pringle and Tacchini on Penistone Road were mocking the Wendies in their donkey jackets.

I remember a game being called off v Bradford I think , yes I had travelled over for it .
When around 50 or 60 of us went to toytown who were playing the barcodes ,
We were dressed to impress then , I had a two tone Nike suede jacket , one of the guys from brook side ,
used to wear one , cost 70 notes back then , got tore on first outing .

 

[Sean Thornton]

Got the original version of that by Little Richard, probably the only other bloke on the planet with a voice as powerful as Noddy Holder!

Bobby Marchan did the original a couple of years before LR but you'd hardly recognise it as the same record. None of the power of either later version.