Abington Park 1976
Some shots from Abington Park in the summer of '76
The wonderful Gallone's ice cream vans, still there to this day. Is the ice cream as good as it was?
The council obviously had more money than it does now, and there were various entertainments put on in the park during the summer - these are some Belgian flag wavers and a Scottish band with a drum major (or perhaps minor judging by the size of her).
These are the Celebrated Ratliffe Stout Band - I know the name, but really don't know much about them apart from the fact that they came from Northampton, were a folk group and were named after a Northampton beer. Very hard to find out anything about them on t'interweb.
And one of me, probably eating a Gallone's. And yes, the top is home-knitted....