Tatoos - How do you percieve them?
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Perente
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Going a little off topic, Guess, but having worked for an Aboriginal organisation, and been involved in some of the political aspects of Aboriginal life in Australian society, I can assure you there are some left, and that some of them choose to be tattoo'd. As with Hails comment about Maori and Polynesian races, some of the tatto's are of tribal significance, some are just for the art. However, of the Aboriginal people I have known with tattoo's I would feel confident that none of them would claim to be English.
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Roehampton it is. Its just the numerous tower blocks and other flat pack blocks of the 60's award winning and sprawling Alton Estate that block the view. The green saved the sanity. How did that win an award? How times have changed. Thankfully, I didn't live in the main part of the "village". Its more of a student campus now. A positive was indeed the closeness of Stamford Bridge, funny how we ignored Carven Cottage en route.Guess wrote:caller wrote: Me, I'm from R'ampton!
I hope though it is really the leafy suburb Roehamton, a mere jog from the hallowed turf.
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Norseman,Norseman wrote:Ah, the lost battle!!caller wrote:A positive was indeed the closeness of Stamford Bridge,
Long time ago though!!
Thats a different Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea's stadium name has far more humble beginnings. It comes from buildings called Stamford Villas at No. 2 Fulham Road that bordered the site - quite green in about 1877. They were demolished to gain access to the new stadium - very humble then. There's actually a small brook that had to be crossed. You could still see evidence of this at a small entrance that used to exist by the railway line. Thats how it got the name of Stamford Bridge.
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Off thread I know, but I need to correct my earlier post about Stamford Bridge.
This will bore the pants off of anyone other than ardent Chelsea fans. Apologies to everyone else.
I did the above from memory, but a mate I met for lunch reckoned I was dreaming about the brook - that what we used to see was drainage.
So I dug out my trusty reference book, in this case, "The Bridge", published in 1987.
I was right about Stamford Villas but the Bridge does refer to what now crosses the railway line behind the East Stand. Before it became a railway line it was a canal - the Kensington canal. The name is mentioned as early as the 14th century, apparantly crossing what was then a "common sewer" which was a tidal tributary of the Thames.
Seemingly, in ancient times, it was actually called "Samfordesbregge". The current name seems to be a bastardistion of the names of the bridge we're talking about on the Fulham Road and one a little South that crosses the Kings Road, which had similar names, to give us Stamford Bridge.
And nowt to do with tattoos - which is probably a good thing!!!
This will bore the pants off of anyone other than ardent Chelsea fans. Apologies to everyone else.
I did the above from memory, but a mate I met for lunch reckoned I was dreaming about the brook - that what we used to see was drainage.
So I dug out my trusty reference book, in this case, "The Bridge", published in 1987.
I was right about Stamford Villas but the Bridge does refer to what now crosses the railway line behind the East Stand. Before it became a railway line it was a canal - the Kensington canal. The name is mentioned as early as the 14th century, apparantly crossing what was then a "common sewer" which was a tidal tributary of the Thames.
Seemingly, in ancient times, it was actually called "Samfordesbregge". The current name seems to be a bastardistion of the names of the bridge we're talking about on the Fulham Road and one a little South that crosses the Kings Road, which had similar names, to give us Stamford Bridge.
And nowt to do with tattoos - which is probably a good thing!!!
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I am the Tattood Skinhead i wear Dr martins , levi jeans, Ben sherman shirts I hate football and i am not a thug as often as i used to be,Perente wrote:GuessWell, mine were a mixture of Scots, French and English, all by their own choice, all from different social backgrounds - sea captains, high court judges, merchants and fishermen - and I still end up broke and tattoo'd, but out of trouble and ( still ) off the drugs. ( Alcohol doesn't really count, does it.... But remember where the white Ozzies originated.)
However, I'd have to agree thatNone-the-less, having a tatto does not automatically make one English, skinhead, football supporting nor a thug............Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi......the image of the English, tattooed, skinhead, football supporting thug is not one to be proud of.
a truely reformed character !!!
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