| Subject: Re: Borstal Tears -- please help! |
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phil rigby
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Date Posted: 04:38:21 09/18/06 Mon
In reply to:
phil rigby
's message, "Re: Borstal Tears -- please help!" on 15:37:50 09/17/06 Sun
>>I hope someone here can help me -- I've been trying to
>>find out more about this for some research I'm doing
>>but there are almost no references that I can find.
>>
>>As far as I understand, Borstal Tears are tattooed
>>tears that you used to get if you'd done Borstal. I'd
>>be really grateful if anybody with that experience can
>>tell me:
>>
>>- how common were they? (I'm talking particularly with
>>guys who did borstal in the mid-70s here) -- what kind
>>of guys would get them done?
>>
>>- did it matter which eye? how many tears?
>>
>>- were the tattoos always done after you got out, or
>>were they sometimes done (with pen ink or whatever)
>>inside?
>>
>>any other thoughts, memories etc much appreciated.
>>thanks
>
>there is plenty of posts on here,with some good
>poignant memories and anecdotes, including my own. the
>main tattoos i saw were the ones where the hand would
>be covered following the outline of the top of your
>hand up to your knuckles and thumb,known as a borstal
>glove ,a broken line on the front of the neck with CUT
>HERE in the middle,stars on the ear lobes,swallows
>either side of the neck,love and hate on the fingers,
>acab i.e all coppers are bastards,tears on either eye
>what that stood for i dont know but im sure someone
>will know.the saddest tattoo i saw was on a lad from
>crewe when i was in foston hall 1979 a tattoo of an
>erect penis on his arm ,i shared a table with him a
>meal times and he was proud of it being a bit scared i
>used to laugh inside rather than to his face.
tattoos were sometimes done using the crushed up lead of a pencil,although it went under the skin it did not stay long,although the shape of what you tattoed would still remain as a scar ,twinny from hattersley was in everthorpe with me,and he mananged to purloin a bottle of indian ink from education and we both tattoed our hands,i lived with it till 1994 when i had lazer treatment in a clinic in stoke on trent ,what a relief to get rid of them it made it very hard to get a job and the amount of funny looks you got,and comments wasnt worth keeping them and they looked shite as well,also pychologically it put you at a disadvantage because you would always be hiding your hand in your pocket,you would go to touch your face pick something up and stop and use your other hand,people would pick up on the body language,and it looked deciteful,proper bollocks havin tattoos on your hands and face.i know i have had them and havnt for the last 12 years ,forgot to mention the borstal spot which was on the cheek there is still a slight trace on mine ,but its funny when you talk to someone with one because you both know,although i knew a policeman who had a mark on his cheekbone and it helped him cause people thought he had been away,you could not tell it wasnt a borstal dot.i only know that because he nicked me,just goes to show you never can tell.pen ink didnot work as it reacted with the blood.
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