Youth Culture History

Skinheads on way into Dreamland, Margate, 1980.

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.

Margate FC, home to Scooterists in 1989.

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.

Punks and skinheads in Dreamland, Margate, circa 1978. Mixing well, which would probably have not have been the case about 3 or 4 years later.

The success of 2-tone and bands like Madness made skinhead acceptable for advertising use in the early 1980s, with this gang of wheat-based skins regularly showing up on TV in ad breaks.

Great set of pics of skinheads from around Hertfordshire circa 1980.

Combat 84 - TV Documentary 1982

More discussion of Skinheads wearing moccasins at around 3 minutes. Not a great documentary, but interesting enough about life as a skinhead at that time and insight into Combat 84 and their followers, who were mostly right-leaning.

We shall fight them on the beaches: skinheads and mods clash on Margate’s main sands, circa 1980.

Skinhead girls, Margate clock tower, 1981.