So tell me about the Mumbles...

[marty21]

aye! i was a teenie-bopper drinker then! remember gladstones? the willie hancock (still there i believe) etc.

it's just got more indian/kebab places now.

Ddraig - that gorrilla you posted a piccie of. There's a good story about that. In the summer of 1999 it got abducted. Dissappeared without a trace for weeks. Then, all of a sudden it was back. Put there in the middle of the night just like it had been taken. The only difference being that it had changed from a boy to a girl monkey!

anyone remember the giant-dog-statue outside a house in limeslade? that got stolen too and was put onto someone else's lawn. funny fuckers.

vage memory of gladstones, we used to go to the student hell that was cinderellas, and i think there was a club called "bentley's" which was equally bad, then in the town, martha's vineyard seemed to be our club of choice, i think it was part-owned by bonnie tyler

 

[Strumpet]

oops!

Indeed.

 

[Strumpet]

i think there was a club called "bentley's" which was equally bad

Bentleys is still there and still rubbish.

Her and her man, Bobby owned what is now Escape...was the Valbonne too.

 

[CharlieAddict]

vage memory of gladstones, we used to go to the student hell that was cinderellas, and i think there was a club called "bentley's" which was equally bad, then in the town, martha's vineyard seemed to be our club of choice, i think it was part-owned by bonnie tyler

i think you're from my sister's generation as she frequented those places in her younger days too. she visited mumbles for the first time in nearly 20 years a couple of months back. she couldn't believe how it'd changed! she was so upset she cried!

cinderellas is now closed. and i think neptunes (around the corner) is something else now.

i don't know if it's true, but i heard richard dreyfus has a holiday home in mumbles!

 

[llantwit]

Wrong thread Kate




Eerrmm I think you forgot the "SOME" in that sentence.


MMMmm damn right. *Slurp*




I remember GorillaGate. *tsk* Bladdy students!

Time - HAHAHAHAHAHAA
Dora's! - AAhhhhh a complete dive but the few times I went I had such a laugh even though I feared a little for my safety lol

It wasn't students, ACTUALLY... I covered the thing for the studie rag at the time. Apparently the police knew who did it, but didn't press charges. Good story all round.

 

[marty21]

i think you're from my sister's generation as she frequented those places in her younger days too. she visited mumbles for the first time in nearly 20 years a couple of months back. she couldn't believe how it'd changed! she was so upset she cried!

cinderellas is now closed. and i think neptunes (around the corner) is something else now.

i don't know if it's true, but i heard richard dreyfus has a holiday home in mumbles!

<is suddenly worried he might know CharlieAddict's sister >

was she a stoodent there at the same time?

 

[CharlieAddict]

<is suddenly worried he might know CharlieAddict's sister >

was she a stoodent there at the same time?

she dropped out but did still hung out with the students. i know she was pretty well known in that circuit...she was more uplands and her bf was a hippie in a band (how stereotypical!!!).

i not say no more, in case you do know her!!
and yes, it was exactly the same time!

 

[munkeeunit]

well, you've got the main swansea bay, then round past the mumbles pier, you've got bracelet bay and limeslade bay (limeslade bay is tiny, and bracelet bay is quite small too, but they're both very charming), then on round the coast you've got langland bay and then caswell bay, (which are both about medium sized and also lovely.)

Those are all the official bays of the mumbles I think, but the gower as a wider area has loads more.

(this is a little late I know, but if you go back and didn't check all the bays, you'll know there's more next time )

EDIT: You've have'nt actually being yet have you, got my dates mixed up, so this may well be of use to you.

 

[marty21]

she dropped out but did still hung out with the students. i know she was pretty well known in that circuit...she was more uplands and her bf was a hippie in a band (how stereotypical!!!).

i not say no more, in case you do know her!!
and yes, it was exactly the same time!

eek!! i lived in the uplands for a year, cymdonkin terrace

 

[Strumpet]

It wasn't students, ACTUALLY... I covered the thing for the studie rag at the time. Apparently the police knew who did it, but didn't press charges. Good story all round.

Ooooo the myth is it was students from outta town (I think) playing high jinks.
Yeh good story

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

Cinderellas?? closed
I know neptunes turned into ain italian restaurant, the castellmare??

My baby bro is 2nd chef at the mermaid

 

[1927]

is dick bartons, the old "west cross inn"?

and is the white rose, the old "oyster catcher"?

time marches on, everything changes

I remember when part of waht is now the White Rose was a jeans shop called The Alamo!

 

[llantwit]

Ooooo the myth is it was students from outta town (I think) playing high jinks.
Yeh good story

Don't you think it was too organised for students?

 

[kate44]

reply to strumpet

it was seeing the phrase "meat-market" that prompted that sentiment. also i put "a lot of" after populated, not "solely" before it, but then again i agree "some" would have been better, or even maybe "at least one". as for "wrong"- its official is it? there are such things as right&wrong. i was under the impression that received wisdom is that "there is no such thing as right &wrong" i.e. "dualism is dead- long live multi-culturalism"

 

[llantwit]

it was seeing the phrase "meat-market" that prompted that sentiment. also i put "a lot of" after populated, not "solely" before it, but then again i agree "some" would have been better, or even maybe "at least one". as for "wrong"- its official is it? there are such things as right&wrong. i was under the impression that received wisdom is that "there is no such thing as right &wrong" i.e. "dualism is dead- long live multi-culturalism"

 

[Mapped]

Sorry if I offended you with that term Kate, I didn't mean it in any derogatory way (apart from to the standard of the club itself). It is a term that I and many people use for a place where the focus of the night for most people (non-gender specific) is to get drunk and get off with each other. In this sense men are be meat as well as women, and I have heard the term used by many women to descibe places.

When I was at Time in Swansea I was in a relationship so wasn't out on the pull, but I was approached by many lovely, tipsy Welsh ladies, who might have seen me as a bit of meat.

 

[kate44]

hmmm, point taken. however i think you will find it is generally used to refer to female meat. i personally am an english woman not a welsh lady & i dont drink alcohol apart from the minute quantity found in alcoholfreelager. i do sometimes visit night clubs mainly to dance, but sometimes hoping to pull. generally i dont have much luck, but i do get interactions with the odd sad or not so sad-do. recently i have been warned that those that do take whatever "bait" is on offer are probably stooges. so to get back to the original terminology the men are probably "fish" as in "there are plenty more fish in the sea"