Thursday, 8 May 2014

Dirty Boys Skating a Roof

I've been clearing up a bit and found some pictures I took a few months back that I've done nothing with.
They are from a day back in the early spring. Sam, Harley, Reece & I had already visited West Suffolk College to skate the new ledges & planters and had moved out to have a peek at the new skatepark which at the time was still under construction, just. We were turned away by a security guard posted by the council to keep those pesky kids from damaging the new turf laid around the park. We moved on and ended up walking through the open gates of a school and once we'd found that the new surface around some previously useable benches had rendered them useless for everything but sitting.
One of the others then piped up about a bank on a flat roof and off we went a'searching.
In reflection, the fact that the building we were climbing onto was right next to the caretaker's house made this a bust before we'd started. But up they climbed all the same.
Standing on a wall I was able to get a couple of shots, but they are not of great quality as I had little time to setup and neither of them are focused correctly. 

Harley Miller - blunt slide drop-off
Reece Bartlett   
Pretty much as soon as these two photos were taken the caretaker came over, struggling with a ladder and started ranting about a visit from the old bill so down we climbed and skated out the front gate. A short spell was spent at Harley's house to avoid any unwanted attention and off we went to the next spot.