I was talking about Livingston at the “goodbye to Harrow Day” last week. With Harrow and Southsea under threat we’re heading towards a situation where Livingston will be one of the oldest skateparks in Britain (I hope Rom’s still OK). At the time this story was written, though, I still thought of it as “new” and “state of the art” — even though this competition was staged to celebrate the first re-surfacing and the first of the improvements, in the form of coping.
People came from far and wide to celebrate the re-opening. I can certainly see Brighton represented by one of the five, yes five, people in the opening shot of the new bowl/pool at the bottom of this page.
Livingston was the greatest of British parks at this time because it had been designed and built with care after the early mistakes and just before the idea of building any facilities for skateboarding would have seemed a waste of money. In fact for decades Scotland probably had the greatest park in Europe.
rickcurran responded on 28 Apr 2008 at 11:30 am #
Hey Tim, wasn’t there an awesome centre spread pullout poster for that issue? It is one of my favourite posters of all time I think. I don’t have a copy of it any more though now unfortunately, is there any way this could be reproduced at high quality? I’d love to have a copy of it again!
timlb responded on 28 Apr 2008 at 11:52 am #
Hi Rick. I’ve just had a look: the centre spread was Steve Caballero at Stevenage. Is that the one you were thinking of, or were you expecting something from Livingston?
rickcurran responded on 28 Apr 2008 at 8:17 pm #
Thanks Tim, mmm, either I’m thinking of a different issue or I think perhaps the poster was actually a pull-out poster. This does ring a bell in that I remember it being about twice the size of your average centre spread. or perhaps I’m making it up?!!!! It was something like Davie Phillips doing a frontside air over someone (Chimp?) doing a frontside carve grind. It was an awesome poster, it sums up Livi comps from that era for me!
timlb responded on 29 Apr 2008 at 6:12 pm #
Yes: that poster sounds familiar to me too. But I’ve no idea when it appeared. Perhaps someone else can remind us?
tommyboy1977 responded on 14 May 2008 at 8:49 am #
hi,
i am trying to track down a particular issue. it featured a good friend of mine on the cover, and he has lost his copy.
the issue featured a spotlight on monks ditch in southampton, and the cover was my mate doing a backside smith at the ditch. it was credited as unknown local. he also had a few other shots in the issue, and an outline was used throughout the mag.
sorry dont remember too much more about the issue.
also does anyone still have any rad stickers left?
this is a cool site and bringing back so many memories. keep it up.
tom