Kenton Bar Celebrities Pre 1988-Keith at the fish&chip shop

By ghost of mensforth -

Keith AKA 'Beefy' went to Kenton Bar Primary... Keith was a lovely lad, kind and happy...but he was posh! oh yes, ultra posh in that he came from Leeches Estate(like Sherriff Shades)and possibly due to his 'wealthy' background and also to his entrepeneurial spirit, ended up running and owning the Kenton Bar Chippy at the tender age of 16-17ish, much to the astonishment of his peers still wandering about the estate,a great herd of unemployed teenagers who had left school ASP...Keith's nickname as I just said was 'beefy' for some reason...
Anyway, here is a photo of his chippy now, a kebab(spelt kabab by the owners!) and pizza place, in my humble opinion a shadow of the bright and welcoming fish and chip shop of those dim dark distant days...however I must confess I preferred the chippy at North Kenton!
ps: note the graffiti'NKFL'...NK must be north kenton, but what might 'FL'mean?....
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  1. ShadesWednesday, April 28, 2010 at 11:35:00 PM GMT

    I remember it as the laundromat, with Bendix machines and a dry cleaning machine as well.

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  2. ShadesFriday, April 30, 2010 at 12:44:00 PM GMT

    "North Kenton's Fucked, Like."

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  3. ghost of mensforthFriday, April 30, 2010 at 7:35:00 PM GMT

    What doth thou mean?...

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  4. ShadesSaturday, May 1, 2010 at 4:06:00 PM GMT

    Just speculating on what it might have stood for...

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  5. UnknownThursday, May 20, 2010 at 10:38:00 PM GMT

    It means North Kenton Front Line haha silly chavs

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  6. ghost of mensforthFriday, May 21, 2010 at 5:07:00 AM GMT

    Thanks for the missing piece of jigsaw Tony...since when did the NKAB annex 1/2 of KBAB land?...in their dreams...ha ha!

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  7. jopFriday, June 11, 2010 at 8:34:00 PM GMT

    I remember the chippy, used to go every friday night then go home to watch Auf Weidersehen Pet (first series). And it's one of the first places I knew that had aspace invaders machine!

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  8. tonyschollarWednesday, April 13, 2011 at 6:34:00 AM GMT

    It means North Kenton Front Line haha silly chavs

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  9. El PatronTuesday, January 17, 2012 at 12:04:00 PM GMT

    Every time I look at this photo it makes me cry the way the shop front is bricked up - it looks shit compared to the vast glass windows of years gone by.......

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  10. ghost of mensforthTuesday, January 17, 2012 at 7:35:00 PM GMT

    It is most unseemly and garish...the black brickwork is ghastly...an outrage...it cannot be endured...

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