Your top 5 things about Stafford.

Henchy

A few posts under my belt
Yes indeed and thanks!…you’ve saved me from a sense of insanity even if it’s more than a decade since your post. It was winter 72/73 and it was when they were still The Wailers and yours is the first reference to it I’ve found… and most of all it corroborates a whole story I’ve been dining out on ever since.
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
Yes indeed and thanks!…you’ve saved me from a sense of insanity even if it’s more than a decade since your post. It was winter 72/73 and it was when they were still The Wailers and yours is the first reference to it I’ve found… and most of all it corroborates a whole story I’ve been dining out on ever since.
Uh???
 

Henchy

A few posts under my belt
I hope this makes it worth the wait…one of my pals was matey with the guy who booked the bands. After the gig he told us that the band didn’t want to travel that night and could we help with accommodation…They were serious Rastafarians and were troubled by the snow we had had and saw it as a really bad omen…the lead singer had gone on with the manager in his car, so between the 2 flats we had as student accommodation at Brooke Court we gave shelter to the Wailers who at that time were totally unknown and we of course had no idea how they would become one of the biggest bands ever!
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
I hope this makes it worth the wait…one of my pals was matey with the guy who booked the bands. After the gig he told us that the band didn’t want to travel that night and could we help with accommodation…They were serious Rastafarians and were troubled by the snow we had had and saw it as a really bad omen…the lead singer had gone on with the manager in his car, so between the 2 flats we had as student accommodation at Brooke Court we gave shelter to the Wailers who at that time were totally unknown and we of course had no idea how they would become one of the biggest bands ever!
Excellent!

Brooke Court was like the Young Ones on an industrial scale. Things like that could never go on now...
 

Henchy

A few posts under my belt
Talking of Stafford’s losses… it was the tower that’s been demolished where our flats were…and of course it was Bob Marley who made off with Chris Blackwell rather than hang out at Brooke Court
 

Henchy

A few posts under my belt
…and as for Young Ones behaviour no one would miss what regularly happened around tea time when most occupants were in their kitchens all neatly stacked one above the other…
 

Henchy

A few posts under my belt
….and some little bleeder at the top would shout Oi! Oi! and wait for the kitchen windows in the flats below to open and heads to appear to find out what the fuss is about….
 

Henchy

A few posts under my belt
….and some little bleeder at the top would shout Oi! Oi! and wait for the kitchen windows in the flats below to open and heads to appear to find out what the fuss is about….
…and then KERSPLOOSH!! a bowl of washing up water would get the bleedin’ lot of them!
 

Henchy

A few posts under my belt
…and another thing…that I’m sure Stafford has lost is the huge, unheated, uncarpeted, flat in one of those large Victorian? houses on the Eccleshall Rd. On returning to it after a holiday I found a homeless guy sleeping on my bed!…
 

Henchy

A few posts under my belt
…and another thing…that I’m sure Stafford has lost is the huge, unheated, uncarpeted, flat in one of those large Victorian? houses on the Eccleshall Rd. On returning to it after a holiday I found a homeless guy sleeping on my bed!…
…and the flat had lost some of its floorboards because they had been torn up and burnt on the open fire!
 

Henchy

A few posts under my belt
and another thing! When the landlord refused to do anything to sort out the security and the floor, we ended up at a Rent Tribunal where the rent was halved. I bet Rent Tribunals have gone too!
 

Mudgie

Well-Known Forumite
…and then KERSPLOOSH!! a bowl of washing up water would get the bleedin’ lot of them!
Wasn't a potato dangling on a length of string and banging against a kitchen window more effective than to "shout Oi! Oi!" for a kitchen window in a flat below, not the one immediately below, to be opened far enough for the gallon of water ?
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
I do remember how the last thirty feet to the door had to be covered at speed, after checking for 'boiling oil' from above.

I've often wondered if that's why they changed Binyon to The Keep?
 

Henchy

A few posts under my belt
I couldn’t possibly comment but I imagine! that the attraction was seeing several windows open one above the other with inquiring faces looking upwards…and yes, nobody would have got very wet and the gallon would have been well distributed!
 

Henchy

A few posts under my belt
I do remember how the last thirty feet to the door had to be covered at speed, after checking for 'boiling oil' from above.

I've often wondered if that's why they changed Binyon to The Keep?
Love the fortress analogy!… but really was it called The Keep because it was the one that was Kept?!…
 
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