Lots of stuff about places to skate in this section. It was an obsession of a time when skateboard facilities were still very rare and just before the era when they would seem redundant. Now they’re everywhere, but necessary again when skateboarding is being forced off the streets. It all comes in waves… LEICESTER You…

Vernon Adams, I salute you (and that’s him modelling the Hot Tuna beanie). The products page was always a difficult one for us. Most consumer magazines are all about selling objects of desire, but we were not. In the seventies Skateboard! magazine had set out down that path, with Dave Goldsmith writing technical pieces about…

NEASDEN GONE London’s just lost it’s hottest unofficial skate spot. The empty open air swimming pool at Gladstone Park in Neasden has been filled. For years this huge expanse of smooth, smooth concrete was the ultimate semi-secret spot in the south. It’s fame spread throughout the world as visitors came, couldn’t believe their eyes, sessioned…

This month we heard about Sean Goff getting involved in SS20, Jeremy Fox getting back into the USA and Andy Ruffell getting more involved in running big events — all omens of things to come. Closer to the time were hints about a skater-owned distributor setting up near Southsea (the Abrook brothers, I think) and…