Youth Culture History

whatweworeuk:

These first two pictures show me in 1981, the one below just before I had a skinhead and the one above after.

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Skinheads on way into Dreamland, Margate, 1980.

Blast from the past as some of the subjects of my pics turn up for the private view at Turner Contemporary. A mix of (former) punks and skinheads from the Margate area. Oh, and a goth. Some had been part of more than one subculture, including rockabilly.

Skinheads in Dreamland, Margate circa 1980. This is 2-Tone era where the cult was big again. Note the policemen to the right of shot. Just about every skinhead coat of the era in shot here.

Rocker’s jacket circa 1964 with MARGATE on the back.

Margate FC, home to Scooterists in 1989.

glammygal:

By Andie Zerpa. Illustrator.

Adrian Coombs-Hoar in 1978 at Dreamland and again in 2011. Still a Rockabilly. Copyright Iain Aitch.

Keith, circa 1981 and again in Margate 2011. Taken on the Harbour wall, where Keith now sells his paintings, inspired by the work of JMW Turner. The Turner Contemporary Gallery was named after Turner, who lived and worked in the town, painting some of his most famous work from a spot on or near where the gallery now sits. Keith was a friend of mine back in the 1980s.

Dennis Morris was highly adept at capturing the emerging black subculture in late 1960s and early 1970s London, as he was a teenager as it was growing. From sound systems to street fashions, he caught it all. He also captured life around in him in Hackney before going on to photograph the Sex Pistols and Bob Marley (his two most famous jobs) and choose acts for Island Records. I interviewed him last month for the Daily Telegraph. Only a few of the words made it to the web, but you want to see the photos anyway!