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‘It was much grittier than the US scene’: UK skateboarding in the 80s and 90s – in pictures
Flying from rooftops or grinding on car spoilers, the skaters at the spectacular birth of a UK subculture are captured in Neil Macdonald’s book Elsewhere Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘It was much grittier than the US scene’: UK skateboarding in the 80s and 90s – in pictures, Flying from rooftops or grinding on car spoilers, the skaters at the spectacular birth of a UK subculture are captured in Neil Macdonald’s book Elsewhere Continue reading…
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- ‘It was much grittier than the US scene’: UK skateboarding in the 80s and 90s – in picturesThe Guardian - 2026-05-21T08:00:42+00:00
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