[cofe]

i'm just in the process on unbuilding an ancient woodie that resides in my cellar and have come across this bit of wood holding it up (i think it was a hold on one of the cellar beams in a previous life).



now i'm either dredging something up from the past in which case le grandhomme slimplusvitesse will f*** me up, or he was once a user of this elite training facility (1/3 of which is at the dump, anothre 1/3 in my back garden cos it's too big to go in the car, and the final third is still in situ cos it predates water pipes which run through it and i have to somehow undo it all). also, of minor interest it must have been one of the first woodies built in a cellar in sheff cos it is fucking old. i'm sure someone will tell me theres was done years ago and it was called ego though.

anyway. i can post more pictures of my woodie if you like. and the wall i'm taking down! genius - a cock gag.

[underground]

If there's any decent sized lengths of hardwood in it I'll tek 'em off yer hands John....

Oh and if you read this Lucian - you are a fuckpig! 

[fatboySlimfast]

You up in Crookes/Walkley Cofe? If so it would be one of the first generation, was there an angled board on it? Fatdoc had one up round that way, Spring Hill I think. Jim kelly had one on Western Road and Steve Earnshaw had one near Freedom road. Steves was first but involved blocks onto the beams type stuff, pretty shit. Then Jons was next, think he built his out of nicked Gas Board ply taken off some trench one night whilst drunk. The enduring memory of these facilities is how grotty they were. My asthma used to go haywire with the shit and chaLK in the atmosphere.

[dave]

i can't believe you've just thrown away such a piece of history john. next you'll be binning your copy of TPOC, or throwing away that old sheet with a very faint picture of a dead bearded guy on it - the one you bought in turin? jesus H.

[Pantontino]

Whatever happened to Steve Earnshaw? I've got a vague memory of him showing me his cellar training facility one time around 1990/91. I'm sure he'd tried to make some replica cruxes?

I went back to Huddersfield and built a similarly shite training facility in our cellar with Nathan Wind who posts on here. We had holds made from blobs of dentist denture glue - far out eh? I've got some pictures somewhere.

[cofe]

Jim kelly had one on Western Road

bingo. there's more graff referring to "kelly".

i'll never sell my copy of TPOC. it must be worth four figures, including two decimal places.

[fatboySlimfast]

bingo.

I lived there for a bit, does it still have the hand made neo classical faux doric column fire place....all done in a painted marble effect? He was a man of classical taste was Jim.

Whatever happened to Steve Earnshaw

New Zealand, south island

[cofe]

bingo.

neo classical faux doric column

i'm no good at anagrams but the internet is: "Comic scandals fool luxuriance"

[GCW]

Nice find Cofe.  This is an interesting anagram though.

[cofe]

the story behind that one is the best.

[r-man]

i'll never sell my copy of TPOC. it must be worth four figures, including two decimal places.

Yep. It's worth £19.95, if you buy it new.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Climbing-David-Jones/dp/1873665008/ref=sr_1_2/202-3695077-7319022?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189696016&sr=1-2

[dave]

i bet they don't come signed and with the RPs out of swift undercut though.

[cofe]

EXACTLY. Regardez Moi.

[Houdini]

Ah, TPOC is worth jack.  Cordee have but 50 (five OH) copies left.  Get 'em while they're luke-warm. 

[fatdoc]

You up in Crookes/Walkley Cofe? If so it would be one of the first generation, was there an angled board on it? Fatdoc had one up round that way, Spring Hill I think. Jim kelly had one on Western Road and Steve Earnshaw had one near Freedom road. Steves was first but involved blocks onto the beams type stuff, pretty shit. Then Jons was next, think he built his out of nicked Gas Board ply taken off some trench one night whilst drunk. The enduring memory of these facilities is how grotty they were. My asthma used to go haywire with the shit and chaLK in the atmosphere.

alledgedly...

[Jaspersharpe]

All I remember about Steve Earnshaw was his 8b+ jacket. A work of genius.

[fatdoc]

indeed.
 

[nathan wind]

Whatever happened to Steve Earnshaw? I've got a vague memory of him showing me his cellar training facility one time around 1990/91. I'm sure he'd tried to make some replica cruxes?

I went back to Huddersfield and built a similarly shite training facility in our cellar with Nathan Wind who posts on here. We had holds made from blobs of dentist denture glue - far out eh? I've got some pictures somewhere.

I remember this, weren't we shown round his cellar by George Sharp?? Seem to remember the replica crux was that of 'hot fun closing'..

As for our cellar, weren't those holds from Nick Harfords dental technician mate Terence?..quality.... can still remember the look on Abduls face when he realised what we'd done to his cellar.. 

Training facilities have improved a bit in hudds these days...

[a dense loner]

get a photo of the new board up so we can compare them then

[fatdoc]

looks alright to me