If I'm right about 1983
I was 15, and this might sound a bit like a self-righteous cliche but it changed my whole perspective on life.

I was growing up in a town entirely dependent upon nuclear capacity (Barrow-in-Furness) and I knew then that I wanted no part in it.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 19:53, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Word up Barrow

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 19:56, Reply)

Not much to big it up now
My parents still live there. I wouldn't go otherwise.

I live in Bradford now which possibly makes me some sort of awful town recedivist.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 20:01, Reply)

I go there now and again
Don't go into town, but I was at the Abbey for a cracking artsy thing this spring.
It has its pretty spots, but I hear all the yoofs have VD cos there's fuck all to do but rut.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 20:11, Reply)

I used to work in the Abbey Tavern
I grew up a mile down the road from the Abbey and then it was "oh, the Abbey."

If it wasn't in Barrow it would be one of the most visited places in the UK.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 20:17, Reply)

My only memory of Barrow.
Given I've never been there is this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=420UecB2YZQ&feature=related

Ring any bells?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 20:19, Reply)

Yes!
The guy who wrote the advert was called Mike Burns, and he was once a bus driver in Barrow.

His younger brother Dave (who I knew vaguely) was one of the animators for Gorrilaz.

That's about Barrow's only claim to fame, unless I become a mass murderer.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 20:26, Reply)

So
Did they rebuild the bus depot after the monster ate it?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 20:27, Reply)

No
It fell down in 1989 and there's now a DFS or similar on the site.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 20:32, Reply)

I'll bet the monster damaged the structure.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 20:34, Reply)

Possibly
I got out of the place in 1987.

It's not a bad town, but it lives somewhere back in time.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 20:46, Reply)

The Abbey Tavern!
I'm so sad it's closed.
That bloke with the dog and the Slovakian wife ruined it.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 21:20, Reply)

YouTube has the film in 13parts on it.
The text there suggests it's from 1984. But well guessed all the same.

I might have to watch it again now.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 19:58, Reply)

It scared me too.
Made it all too real.
( girlinthehole, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 20:04, Reply)

Granted, when we watched it at school everyone laughed
At the woman who pisses herself.

But it was dead scarey. Not all the kids had permission to see it in school either. Worried parents who didn't want their children to have any idea what was in store for them. Bless/
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 20:05, Reply)

I watched it for the first time about a year ago
it was available through google video in it's entirety. Definitely one of the most unsettling films I have ever seen. There's an earlier film along the same lines called The War Game, also chilling viewing.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 20:19, Reply)