{"id":175,"date":"2006-05-11T08:43:56","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T08:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/05\/11\/two-classic-uk-skateboard-shops-billys-and-off-beat\/"},"modified":"2006-05-11T08:43:56","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T08:43:56","slug":"two-classic-uk-skateboard-shops-billys-and-off-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/05\/11\/two-classic-uk-skateboard-shops-billys-and-off-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Two classic UK skateboard shops: Billys and Off Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/81\/rad81_53.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/81\/thumb-rad81_53.jpg\" width=\"141\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Billys and Off Beat Skateboard Shop Adverts 1989\" title=\"Billys and Off Beat Skateboard Shop Adverts 1989\"  \/><\/a>This Billy&#8217;s Boards advert announces the move of their shop to Chesterton Road in Cambridge. Townsends still have that shop (in 2006) but seem to be only selling bikes there. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billys.co.uk\/english\/about.php\">Billy&#8217;s skate shop<\/a> is now elsewhere, but seems to be going strong.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.offbeatsportz.co.uk\/\">Off Beat Sportz<\/a> are another of those shops who have been going for ages, plugging away supplying generation after generation of skaters. I find that very reassuring at a time when so much of the skateboard world in the UK has changed beyond recognition. But I also miss some of those who have not survived, notably Alpine Action on a personal level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Billy&#8217;s Boards advert announces the move of their shop to Chesterton Road in Cambridge. Townsends still have that shop (in 2006) but seem to be only selling bikes there. The Billy&#8217;s skate shop is now elsewhere, but seems to be going strong. Off Beat Sportz are another of those shops who have been going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adverts","category-issue-81-november-1989"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}