Memories come flooding back for me,Tengu, thank you, my mate and I in 1964, decided to leave home, our father's threatened to cut our hair, we were seventeen for God's sake.
I left my job as an apprentice slater and tiler and jumped the boat at 1am to the Isle of Man. We slept on the benches on Douglas prom, we wore baseball boots and hid our Chelsea boots in the sand boxes.
At the end of the week, the police arrested us for....yer won't believe this
robbing a music band of drums and guitars etc. I asked them where were we hiding the gear? under the benches?
We were shipped out at 5am the next morning, I'm sure they drugged us cos' we don't remember boarding the boat. Arrived home and me Mam gave me half a crown to get my haircut, I dived at it.
Wonder what happened to our Chelsea boots, you're not wearing them are yer?