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badges / patches are now ..and always wil be a part of northern soul....they are worth whatever people want to pay for them .. whats wrong with that ?... they are even more valuable if you have been to the venues you own the patches for, they are however collectable to many who havent since they are nice to have i suppose ...g.gif

pete n' susan KTF

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Mine are tucked into a little white envelope inside the draw of my PC desk, along with all my membership cards.

Strangely enough, records have come and gone over the years but I could never bring myself to part with the contents of that little envelope. Someone gave me a pair of lapel badges a while back. One of the Palmer label, the other Gordy. In 1976 I made my own little silver and black TMG badge by cutting out the logo from an LP jacket and mounting it on a piece of cardboard with a safety pin and sellotaped to the back. A lot of us did that. It was a very adolescent thing, rather like rock fans wearing USAF wings & peace signs. It identified you as a member of the tribe. Like baggy trousers, they also had a limited shelf life. How many people were wearing them by 1980?

Only the Spencers clad diehards as I remember. So apart from the aesthetical question, I'd just feel like mutton dressed as lamb and tremendously self-conscious if I wore that stuff today. But each to his own of course.

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QUOTE (staceys dad @ May 24 09, 11:50 AM) have got the heart of soul badge with i think its jackie wilsons outline on the heart whats the price on this its in really good condition

I was told it was JJ barnes, anyhow one went for £121 on e bay last year! I`ve got one but wont part with it, eerrrrr unless I get a good offer

I had one of them, gave it to one of my kids years ago!

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:boxing: i HAVE 2TO 3 PIONTS TO ADD AND I MUST MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THIS IS MY OPINION ONLY AND IN SOME CASE OF COLLECTING IE:-MEDALS, MY DAD WAS A SAPPER IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS IN WORLD WAR 2 HE WAS A REGULAR SOLDIER JOINED IN 38 BY THE TIME WAR BROKE OUT HE WAS BASED IN PALASTINE. WHO WOULD OF THOUGHT AFTER SPENDING THE LAST MONTHS IN JORDAN,IRAQ AND THE LEBONON THAT, HE WOULD BE IN THE MOST FAMOUSE BATTLES OF THE MODERN TIMES, TABROOK TWICE,EL ALAMANE TWICE, NOT LIKE TODAY WEEKS OF BRAVEORY FIGHT OR DIE STUF, IN ITALY HE WAS AT MONTE CASINO WHEN THE REGAMENT LOOKED TO THE SKY AND WATCH MEN FROM THE FREE POLISH ARMY 2 OUT OF 3 PARACHUTES FAILED TO OPEN THAT DAY I COULD GO ON AND ON, SO HIS MEDALS THE AFRICA STAR, ITALY AND EUROPE STAR, ECT WILL NEVER BE SOLD BY ME, HOWEVER MANY POEPLE BUY MEDALS AS A HOBBY I DONT THINK FOR ONE MOMENT THAT THEY PUT THEM ON AND PLAY SOLDIERS WITH THEM..ITS THE SAME WITH BADGES THE ADVERT FROM THE GEEZER IS TYPACAL OF THE SORT OF PEOPLE I WOULD NOT HESITATE TO GIVE A RIGHT HOOK TO, HIS OPENING REMARK HI SOULIES TELLS ME EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW FUCKING HELL I HATE THIS IDIOTIC OBVERSERLY COMING FROM A NORTHERNER. SOULIES YOU MATE ARE A PRISE TOSSER AND I HOPE YOU NEVER GET YOUR REMAING BADGES AS IF YOU WERE A SOUL BROTHER I WOULD FIND ONE FOR YOU BUT AS YOU ARE A SOULIE f*** OFF, AND THEN HE DOES IT AGAIN BY NOT ONLY NOT GOING TO THE ALLNIGHTERS IN QUESTION HE IS TELLING ME WHAT I ALREADY KNOW, ANY WAY LETS f*** HIM AND HIS SOULIE MATES OF :thumbup:

RIGHT THINKING ABOUT THE BADGES THING WHILE WALKING THE DOG AT 3.30AM I MADE A LINK WAIT FOR IT THE PERMANANT BADGE THE TATTOO THERE IS DEFANANTLY A STRONG LINK TO NS BADGES ALSO REGGAE AND SKINHEADS. I EMEMBERD MY MATE PAUL WHO HAD A CARRABIAN SUNSET ON HIS ARM IN EARLY 69 WITH THE PAMA SYMBEL AS THE RED SUN AND OF COURSE FOOTBALLTATOOS BOSTAL SPOTS THERE GOT TOBE A FEW RARESOUL WHEEL NIGHT OWLS OUT THERE :ph34r: DAVE KIL

Know what, I agree with you on that 'soulie' thing Dave, I hate it, Soul brothers, Soul sisters, Soulboys, Soulgirls yeah, but Soulies?

Naffer than Naffing Naffffffffffff!:thumbup:

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Seen it----------not what I would spend hard earned on,just dont understand why people would want to pay for badges ,but heyho each to their own.

The badges on the link are ours. Well to be honest, they were Sean's mum's. We've had loads of people asking about these. They are all genuine, Karen had them since she was out and about in the 70's.

Jayne.x.

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does any one know if theres any label patches ever been made without legends of soul plastered all over them im desperate for some?

Hi,

There was someone on the internet a while back - www.soulelite.co.uk who would make you a patch of any record label you wanted. They weren't embroidered, but were good.

I think you just sent him a scan of what you wanted.

They weren't expensive either.

NEWKID

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Debbie - My patches mean alot to me, some of them are from the venues i have been to & enjoyed great nights that i will always want to remember :thumbup:

The others belong to a very dear friend, who went to Soul nights round the Uk in the 70s & 80s & who is no longer with me, he left me the patches to put on my own bags :thumbup:

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Never owned one,the smart ones in my book were the ones Terry mentions ,there was people from round Corby as like wellingborough wearing the torch badges on Barathea blazer pockets(I remember Wilky did along with John Boyd and others) as he said with skinners and the original solatio basketweave shoes.Didnt have the badge but they were the type clothes I stood up in crown court at just turned fifteen and got swagged off to borstal.I really loved that look,they were quite used to it I expect in northants ,beds but when I got to thee wormwood scrubs borstal allocation centre, London the "screws were nearly pissing themselves about the baggyness of the jeans.The twenty two inch parallels around that time were also great with a blazer .You would see a fair few folk in the north park kettering with the badge on the blazer before I went on an extended "holiday",when I got out there was badges everywhere and mens trouser waistbands had started to extend upwards in what looked like an attempt to reach the nipples.Thankfully other options also became available for what to wear.

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Know what, I agree with you on that 'soulie' thing Dave, I hate it, Soul brothers, Soul sisters, Soulboys, Soulgirls yeah, but Soulies?

Naffer than Naffing Naffffffffffff! :thumbup:

As a certain record doing the rounds in the clubs back then would put it.......

Right on!!!

Brothers and sisters right on!

Right on!!!

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