The rugby club....a point of bonding, unity, friendship, fighting, fear, love, ciggies, cider, gobbing, laughing, breaking the law, loving each other more than would be possible in the future....what does the future hold? Who cares? Not worth thinking about! Thatcher children? Just Scots kids....salt of the earth parents, too many fags, too much drink, mince n tatties! A gang congregation point....1985, one of a few hang-outs, acting like chavs, our world! A world for a bunch of scary but intrinsically ok teenagers. Intimidating to some, intimidating to me now, if I was me now, then!
The wall...Mr Tree, the Haw Haw's, less popular than the Rugby Club. Scarier for passers bye.....simply more passers bye! Less cider, more visible, less fun!
The Green Box......very visible, different friends, slightly less intimidating friends. Even less cider, just as many ciggies!
The Slab......gone forever. No more chips....it's a chinese now anyway. It's less of a happy house, less community, it's called Happy House! Vita in the chippy looking out for us, caring about us, telling our parents if we got too bad, Easy to launch missiles at Big T, easy to escape home...but it was home.
The World.....it's bigger now but just the same size. Less immediate threat, but more fear. More friends....facebook tells me I have 203. Less close friendship, less bonding, less cider, no ciggies, no intimidating others, no fighting. Dr rather than Mr Most of us turned out ok. Everyone has potential. That's the hardest bit to remember!
Thanks to Mishka Henner for setting this project.
The project was simply to use images from Google Maps or Google Earth....to maybe tell a story or get a message across. This week at work I've written stuff about learning through reflection. I've used the project to revisit hangout points from my teenage years. They don't look much different but my perspective of the world has changed hugely. It's a reminder to me that no matter how bad kids may seem, they all have huge potential.
We were lucky.....nothing too bad came of our actions but they could have and life would have been quite different.
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