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Waverton/Chester ramp?
Retrodan72:
--- Quote from: doctor-46 on January 24, 2016, 10:36 PM ---sounds like the same place then, was (about) a 10ft tall vert ramp and they added a mini spine ramp later on, all in the barn!
Used to have some good times there.
I rode chester skatepark a few times, but it was half demolished by then.
Found a couple of pictures of the skatepark on the net.
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I rode to the skatepark in Chester once or twice in '85, probably with Brett in the group. We used to ride the 5 miles from Deeside along the river bank, which was not the nice flat Tarmac cycle way that it is now. The skatepark itself was w4nk, full of weeds and broken glass, but it was good to hang about and watch the braver riders.
I have actually learned a bit more about it recently. The group that used it called themselves 'The Inner City Truckers'. One of the skaters, a lad called Dave Mitchell's Dad designed it around 1980. This guys Dad had a friend on Chester City Council, and they'd approached him about the demand for a skatepark, so the Council allocated the land begging the football ground on Sealand Rd. Mr Mitchell went and designed the snake run and bowl, but the builders got their quote wrong, and ran out of money, but Chester Council refused to give them any more. People say that the park wasn't ever demolished, it just never got completed.
It eventually got filled in and bulldozed in 1990ish, when the football stadium got pulled down, to make way for the retail park.
doctor-46:
Good bit of info there Dan!
The park was actually called "inner city truckers" so that's why the locals called themselves that.
I remember they had painted their names all around the lip of the main bowl with an arrow between them, only name I remember is 'herb'
When I was there it was as you described, but also with the outer walls pushed in and the main bowl nearly filled up with grass clippings...
Only things left to ride was the massive no-flat halfpipe and a bank.
brettypeeps:
I rode for Claude Crimes for years as a kid.
I loved riding the park and in the precinct that was at the back of WHSmiths
Retrodan72:
--- Quote from: doctor-46 on January 25, 2016, 11:09 AM ---Good bit of info there Dan!
The park was actually called "inner city truckers" so that's why the locals called themselves that.
I remember they had painted their names all around the lip of the main bowl with an arrow between them, only name I remember is 'herb'
When I was there it was as you described, but also with the outer walls pushed in and the main bowl nearly filled up with grass clippings...
Only things left to ride was the massive no-flat halfpipe and a bank.
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How much of my info is actual fact, I ont know. :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:
brettypeeps:
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