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


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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Comments

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

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

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  3. It means North Kenton Front Line haha silly chavs

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. It means North Kenton Front Line haha silly chavs

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

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