I asked an old pom where he was from. When he said Brighton, I instinctively asked if he witnessed any of the mod/rocker bizzo back in the day. We WERE standing near my scooter, and he WAS buying a framed picture of a 57 Trumpy (from me at a garage sale), so the question wasn't completely from left field. The answer I got was more than satisfactory.

"Did we ever. me and my mates used to sit near the window in the pub drinking pints and watch them carrying on. Bloody entertaining, them days. Easter was the best one. Any weekend that had a day off Monday was when it went on. Then they got into the alleys, the old alleys. Shame about the shop windows. That old ripple glass can never be replaced. Some of it was from the 1600's. Those kids were nuts."