{"id":299,"date":"2007-08-19T10:02:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T09:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/08\/19\/birmingham-concrete-city-bye-bye\/"},"modified":"2008-01-06T20:56:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T19:56:36","slug":"birmingham-concrete-city-bye-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/08\/19\/birmingham-concrete-city-bye-bye\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham: concrete city, bye bye"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Concrete<\/a>The picture at the bottom right has a poignant grimness to it. That really does sum up the idea of skaters making use of the spaces that everyone else would shun. It may look oppressive but we really had a great day there. So much stuff. I have a great fondness for that picture.
\nI wish we had done more in Birmingham.<\/p>\n

I’ve also just discovered that the file still contains the notes which had been made to help us identify the skaters for captions. They were inadequate — it’s taken 16 years to put names to some of these faces.<\/p>\n

\nWe circled on, back up towards the Central Library for a final step session, and then everyone split up into smaller groups and headed back to different parts of the city. We’d only scratched the surface of Birmingham. We’d only been to a few of the spots in the central area and there are plenty of other little spots dotted around the middle of town. It’s an ideal skate city — good spots in a compact area, with a good sprinkling of banks, handrails and the like in the surrounding suburbs.
\nLike most large cities, Birmingham has so much skate stuff that it can support a whole crowd of rad street skaters who you never really get to see outside of their own area. There were so many there on that day that we could never remember who they all are, but here are some names. Our thanks to Benny, Wickhamb, Christian, Stephen Powers, Rich, Philip Hanks, Michael Fallon, Simon Carter, Sprog, Tim Jones and everyone else for showing us a rad insight into a rad city.<\/p>\n

NAMES:
\nBenny: Grey New Deal top, grey shorts, UCLA hat
\nWickhamb: Poor House long sleeve, grey trousers, Converse boots black Stussy hat
\nWizzer: Yellow top, grey trousers
\nChristian: Black Vision top grey thtrash hat beige trousers, green board
\nBlack New Deal hat blu blind top, Vison shoes, Stephen Powers
\nRichard: Brown Vision street wear top, grey trousers, green hat
\nBrown top grey trousers, Rich
\nVisin boots, hooded top, green new deal hat, Philip Hanks
\nGrey\/\/wht G&S top, grey hat, black trous, Convers: Michael Fallon
\nTim Jones: purpl stsu hat, black thunder ls t, glasses.
\nStrtw cap, deathbo hooded sweat red; Sprog\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The picture at the bottom right has a poignant grimness to it. That really does sum up the idea of skaters making use of the spaces that everyone else would shun. It may look oppressive but we really had a great day there. So much stuff. I have a great fondness for that picture. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-96-may-1991","category-local-scenes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","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=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}