Favourite thing for me about this is that it was a chance to print one of those original Mad Dog Bowl pictures, which were originally shot for Skateboard! magazine back in 1978. Jeremy was one of a small group of London skaters who helped me learn how to take skate pictures. Feedback from the skaters…

Shane Cutts is one of Henderson’s contemporaries; another of the L.S.D boys. He’s also involved with one of the new skate companies: he owns Minus K — the only company actually pressing boards in Britain. This is a transcript of what started out as Shane Cutts interviewing Henderson by transatlantic tape, but it’s not just…

Jeremy Henderson was one of the biggest names in the British skate scene in the seventies. He deserved to be: he skated rad. At one point his name was associated with freestyle (kick-flips off tables), but he was a raging all round skater very much at home on the streets and in the parks of…

Get a life, get a fun life, and don’t be afraid of it, cause having fun is what it’s all about. And remember: he who laughs last probably didn’t understand the joke anyway. Next month: Aristotle — man or motorbike? Sean Goff caption: Lock up the shop and go round to your mate’s ramp. Sean…

Pictures show Jagger at the same wooden bowl, suggesting it’s Birmingham, and Paul Atkins at Mon’s in spine mode. You’re born, you’re bored, you live, you die — and noone’s certain why. But what better reason than having fun? So why are so many people hell bent on denying it? Fun of all kinds is…

Alex Moul and Pete Dosset feature here, along with an indoor wooden bowl from Birmingham. (Might be wrong about Birmingham.) The truth is skateboard magazines have always talked a kind of crap. They’ve talked this kind of crap because it’s always been more fun and that was skateboarding’s bottom line. Now more than ever, fun…

Talking Loud, Saying Nothing. ‘The Visual Language of Glasnost’ has been one of the topics many skaters have been writing in wanting us to discuss. It tops our mail bag, along with ‘Reality, is it For Real?’ Unfortunately our lack of intellectual integrity means we’re only capable of talking crap — so here we go…

The captions read: “Winter sun in Camden. Stuff the market — go skating.” I think that’s Ged Wells at Cantelowes. The bottom picture: “Start the day watching a demo and end up sponsored. Gary Hillard, Cyril’s Boardwalkers.” Not sure where that classic backyard mini-ramp was… At the back of a shop somewhere, perhaps?

Jason Lunn at Mon’s Ramp, from a sunnier time.

It’s almost impossible to read this (echoes of the very earliest issues of the magazine), but it says “Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”. Remember, in those days we were working blind, with no on-screen view of what the page would look like, and no proofs either (apart from the front cover where the…