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    St Helens Scooter Club

    Oct 26, 2021 6 minutes
    Words: Kev O’Toole

    I’m a relative youngster in the scooterist scene and my memories take me back some 25 years or so; others are a little older and can remember the start of things in ’79. What was needed in the quest to unearth St Helens Scooter Club’s dim and distant past was a visit to those people around in days gone by.

    It was felt the starting point would have to be Kev Walsh, an authority on all things scootering throughout that time. Kev kindly agreed to help, so Oggy and I paid him a visit. Not only was Kev pleased to reminisce on his early scootering days, but he also furnished us with various documentation (a testimony of his and other people’s involvement in the scooterist scene).

    EARLY BEGINNINGS

    Kev Walsh first got into the Mod scene in 1962. He bought his first scooter in 1965 – a Vespa 150 Sportique – from White City Motors on Dentons Green Lane, and at that time he was a solo Mod rider.

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