{"id":141,"date":"2006-04-08T08:59:34","date_gmt":"2006-04-08T08:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/04\/08\/disconnection-skateboarding-in-newbury-1989-part-4\/"},"modified":"2006-04-08T08:59:34","modified_gmt":"2006-04-08T08:59:34","slug":"disconnection-skateboarding-in-newbury-1989-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/04\/08\/disconnection-skateboarding-in-newbury-1989-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Disconnection – Skateboarding in Newbury 1989 (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Skateboard<\/a>Photographs show Martin Wager (not quite a local, I think) and overviews of ramps at Marlborough College, Joe’s Barn and Grant and Ross’ ramp. That last one an example of a traditional ramshackle home ramp… Overviews were important: facilities were rare and people travelled to skate these places — we needed to show what was there, we wanted to show examples for people to copy. Above all I took delight in the really dodgy ramps which had been slung together by people desperate to skate.<\/p>\n

\nOK. He’d go outside and find the bugger. There was nothing happening out front. Then the guard heard the sound again: another clatter — yep, probably some young kid out late trying to learn something new on his own. It was coming from the side of the building where those long steep hand rails came down from the walkway. There it was again, and, no, he didn’t make that one either. <\/p>\n

Right: time to give the brat a fright. As the familiar rumbling run-up began, the guard strode purposely round the corner, torch blazing, stood by the bottom of the hand-rail and froze in horror. It was as if everything had slipped into slow motion. He heard the lurching rumble, he heard the foot punching the brick surface for speed, he heard the crack of the tail and gasp as the skater sprang into the air, the clang of metal on metal as one truck, then the other made contact with the hand rail, the rush as the skater slid towards him, the smack of the wheels as they landed square, right next to him, the rush as they sped past him and the exultant shriek that echoed round the courtyard. He heard it all, moment by moment, he even felt the draught as the skater brushed right by him, but he saw<\/em> nothing. Not then — or ever again. They found his body the next day: just keeled over with a heart attack while making his rounds, they said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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