When We Was Rad:
Skateboard History from UK Vintage Magazine

Month: November 2008

  • Not sure what’s happening

    I’m not sure if the site is working or not at the moment. Comments seem to be playing up. But it would be useful if someone could add one (they work for me, but not others at the moment)… Thanks.

  • Rude remarks about where to skate in Birmingham

    I love the caption on the picture here: “Birmingham Wheels’ Finest”. The endless fear of being rude about any skate spot, on the grounds that it might be all the local skaters had, meant that most of the time the Where? guide was painfully neutral. Not so the contributors. “Take a broom” says the comment…

  • Breaking again.

    I wrote too soon. This blog is still not at all well.

  • About that break…

    The couple of weeks turned into something a bit longer. When I came back I discovered that this site had developed a glitch which meant that I could not log in to approve comments, let alone add new posts. At last I’m back in. I hope to start adding new pages soon.

  • Guide to UK skateboard spots, as they were in 1988

    This is the one part of R.a.D Magazine which lives on as more than just a memory. It moved on line in 1994 and can still be found at www.knowhere.co.uk although the content is very different now. I see from the introduction that we introduced a new rating system with this issue of the magazine.…