School can be awful, I kind of got in to a fight because I stood up for a lad always

Picked on, he was always scruffy, ate crisps by putting his whole hand in his mouth, main hobby was Mamod steam engines and his dad was a Stivvy
(Worked at Stephensons locomotive yard and then a scrappy) I thought he was nice chap.
Anyhooo, word got about that apparently I was lined up for a fight with Gary Jackson. Standard ‘70s scene, big crowd “scrap,scrap,scrap” and I somehow came out the victor with the sewn bit of Gary Jackson’s v-neck in my hand and him with a cut eyebrow. I’ve no idea how it happened but everyone seemed to think it was quite amusing that lanky old Findus beat Gary Jackson.
I had a little chortle to myself, lighting up a paraffin tablet under the primed boiler.

Posted By: Augustus Pablo on March 19th 2022 at 22:47:03

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- Whitechapel late 1970s.. (General Chat) - Linky, Mar 19, 21:17:04
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- Kilburn in the 90s (General Chat) - norwaay, Mar 19, 21:03:20
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