Even those who avoid transitions like the plague can’t deny the enjoyment in seeing pictures and footage of what preceded the rise of street skating. A rise in skate-nostalgia means you are as likely to see the kids at your local park planting their foot as switch flipping the bank to flat, and shiny new concrete bowls and pools are cropping up left, right and centre.
While these new facilities are brilliant, as well as a shot in the arm for the already high level of UK skateboarding, there is an undeniable lure to the sandpaper curves of parks built in the 70s and 80s.With our Concrete Carcasses series a slowly ongoing but time consuming process, we thought we’d give you a fix of ‘back in the day’ gnar with ‘crete Tinted Glasses – the best UK parks of yesteryear. Click through for parks both long-departed and still hanging on…
A big thanks to Lost & Found – 1970’s concrete skateparks in the UK.
