Got the bus down to the Valley after school with a couple of mates, and loved the march and the singing all the way down there.
Didn't actually know you were allowed in the Town Hall, so patiently waited outside with a few hundred others. Got interviewed by Newsroom South East, but think i stumbled a bit so just started a big chorus of Back to the Valley !
Like a winning goal when everyone started piling out after and was celebrating. No mobiles in those days, so those outside weren't really kept in the loop.
Back at the school the next day felt like a hero as loads of pupils and teachers come over to say they saw me on tv.
Dont remember "ticket only" ? We never had any tickets , dont remember being asked for em or making any effort to sneak in either. It was packed and we were in a sort of open annex next to main hall.
Ben was right in saying about all the twists and turns. Was it this meeting or the Planning meeting that Andy L was shouting out of a window via loudhailer?
I was there along with Big John Cole and a couple of others....special night....got a newspaper cutting somewhere of the scenes inside the hall...sadly I dont have a scanner.
If it makes u feel just a little better Id just left school, lol Cant remember why i couldn't make it but do remember coming through the front door and me old girl shouting before id even got the key out that your going home, needless to say i ran in the front room done the usual of askin if she was f*****g me about she said no and we both jumped about like nutters singing 'back to the valley' Then seeing everyone on the london news filled me with great pride.............
had been to the previous meeting and all the council planning department meetings where we just stood around the councillors or whoever they were, while they discussed various boring old planning crap. i think the idea was to unsettle them till they came around to our way of thinking.then into the director general for a couple,listening to the brainy people to plan the next move.
it was a bit of a shock to me that when i turned up on that great night to find a load of jcl's had turned up and i was stuck outside with someone else in my seat.
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Didn't actually know you were allowed in the Town Hall, so patiently waited outside with a few hundred others. Got interviewed by Newsroom South East, but think i stumbled a bit so just started a big chorus of Back to the Valley !
Like a winning goal when everyone started piling out after and was celebrating. No mobiles in those days, so those outside weren't really kept in the loop.
Back at the school the next day felt like a hero as loads of pupils and teachers come over to say they saw me on tv.
Yeah was also in Market St standing on the the fence of the docs
Great seens and so many people around that night.
Roger Alwens glasses though blimey could not get any bigger if they tried LOL
Very loud, "Back to the Valley" when we knew we had won. Turned out there were a few more twists and turns before we did get home.
Shall we sing it tonight for old times sake
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Cant remember why i couldn't make it but do remember coming through the front door and me old girl shouting before id even got the key out that your going home, needless to say i ran in the front room done the usual of askin if she was f*****g me about she said no and we both jumped about like nutters singing 'back to the valley'
Then seeing everyone on the london news filled me with great pride.............
Fantastic memories!!!
Remember being outside for the failed planning meeting.
What a night though - I was in dreamland.
it was a bit of a shock to me that when i turned up on that great night to find a load of jcl's had turned up and i was stuck outside with someone else in my seat.