Cream Crackers

So what was I doing during this period of the mororbike and the car?

I was an apprentice at Ford Motor Company. At the training centre at Harold Hill and Barking College of Further Education, back to company bought canteen dinners, a good job too as we spent all our spare money on booze.

I was always drunk (normally on hard spirits drank at the Bridgehouse, Green Man or Lacy Lady) and was existing on 14 quid a week which was rapidly whittled down with expenses and my ability to waste money like water.

These were the early days of Mark Gaskill, Boggy and Steve. Pete Benjafield, Dave (cannot remember his surname) and me. Nights in the East end of London, spent at the the Green man and the Lacy lady.

Simple times of cream cracker and swiss roll eating contests, ten pence shorts (hard spirits) and eighteen pence pint bottles of Newcastle Brown. I'd only recently seen a 'live' woman naked and I think I'd made one "up north" pregnant but did not know why...

We (Mark and myself) were living in the house of Gabitas (ref: 'Down with Skool!') and getting by. The East end of London was a great place to be...if you wasn't an apprentice that is.