Look at my photos of Kelvin Flats! -

pete_fcs · 15-08-2005, 18:58

look at my photos of kelvin flats!

http://photobucket.com/albums/b171/s...elvin%20flats/

melthebell · 15-08-2005, 19:25

i like the plague dogs picture

you the pete from them then?
if so youll prolly remember me around town and gigs with mozaz and marmite andy.

and i presume the fcs in your name stands for **** city ****ters?

pete_fcs · 15-08-2005, 19:28

i was in fcs with lou, but i was never a plague dog... yes i know mozaz (and andy). doesn't everyone!

if you know mozaz well enough you will recognise his handwriting on the photo which says "no evictions" in six-foot letters

H.P · 15-08-2005, 19:28

Wow.. really enjoyed looking at those took me back a few years.. thanks for sharing

melthebell · 15-08-2005, 19:31

lol i dont remember his handwriting tbh but i recognise his lack of spelling

"No Evictons"

depoix · 15-08-2005, 20:29

thanx for that,had some good times on the flats............pm fetish fairy..she has loads of stuff on kelvin flats...

Jon · 15-08-2005, 21:12

Nice photos pete_fcs my brother use to live on the 3rd floor, he couldn't afford a flat just the floor....we use to throw water bombs at people passing by near the shops across the road..oh what happy times.

melthebell · 15-08-2005, 21:16

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Originally posted by Jon
Nice photos pete_fcs my brother use to live on the 3rd floor, he couldn't afford a flat just the floor....we use to throw water bombs at people passing by near the shops across the road..oh what happy times.

sshh he might have been one of those "people"

hes a **** city ****ter you know

eighty4 · 15-08-2005, 21:54

Brings back good memories, my grandad was a porter on there, he had a little garage under the flats where he kept a little car which he used to drive down the landings to clean them, does anyone remember them aswell ?

duffman · 15-08-2005, 22:08

Good pictures there pete. I remember going past on the bus in my youth looking at the flats every day, I still look now at the estate that is in it's place and imagine what the flats used to look like.

pete_fcs · 15-08-2005, 22:14

hey, duffman, i still have DREAMS about them!

in fact i'm not the only ex-tenant who has a recurring dream that they are still there, and i walk back and there is everyone standing on the landings watching the world go by, just like in the olden days....

i once even dreampt that the whole block was on wheels and touring the country!

hey lets have a "dreams of kelvin flats" thread

pete_fcs · 15-08-2005, 22:55

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Originally posted by eighty4
Brings back good memories, my grandad was a porter on there, he had a little garage under the flats where he kept a little car which he used to drive down the landings to clean them, does anyone remember them aswell ?

was he the tall man with short grey hair, glasses and moustache? there was also a short woman with long curly brown hair. she had her photo in a council newsletter cleaning the new internalised landing at 1-53 kelvin walk, but can't post it on net due to copyright!

andy4107 · 16-08-2005, 01:59

Great pictures!

I'm too young to really remember the flats, but from what I can remember, they wasn't such an eye-sore as the Park Hill flats. Maybe they should have been the ones they demolished...

andy4107 · 16-08-2005, 02:11

Uummm.. after looking at more images of both Park Hill and Kelvin flats they tend to look the same.

Probably just as well they got demolished...

Nu_Skillz · 16-08-2005, 07:04

i enjoyed looking through those pete, nice one.
brings back a lot of good and bad memorys from my youth,
was sad to see the flats go,,, their was a real sence of comunity on the Kelvin, it wasent just the bricks and mortar that got demolished.

jackthedog · 16-08-2005, 09:00

Wonderful pictures. Never really seen any photos other than from far away. They seemed completely normal when I used to see them often, but looking back now, weren't they bloody massive. So imposing.

The shot down the terraced street in Upperthorpe, looking up at the flats towering above everything in the distance just shows how dominant they were.

nick2 · 16-08-2005, 09:09

Ah, the memories, I used to know a 18 stone drag queen who lived on Kelvin, the guy had no shame, catching the bus into town with him was a voyage of discovery.

deelightful3 · 16-08-2005, 09:14

you got my late nans flat on one of the pictures,i spent all my school holidays on those flats while mom was at work,it was fun all the way.

eighty4 · 16-08-2005, 14:02

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Originally posted by pete_fcs
was he the tall man with short grey hair, glasses and moustache? there was also a short woman with long curly brown hair. she had her photo in a council newsletter cleaning the new internalised landing at 1-53 kelvin walk, but can't post it on net due to copyright!

That sounds like my grandad alright bloody hell small world ! can you remember his name ? frank ? ring any bells

pete_fcs · 17-08-2005, 19:35

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Originally posted by andy4107
Great pictures!

I'm too young to really remember the flats, but from what I can remember, they wasn't such an eye-sore as the Park Hill flats. Maybe they should have been the ones they demolished...

that's true, i lived at park hill too and they weren't as good as kelvin.