Photography by Paul Mckeown

Found time to upload some Photo's I had taken this year,
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Buncefield and the £350,000 Sculpture

Three years after one of the largest peacetime explosions in history, Maylands Partnership unveil the Phoenix Gateway!

Photo provided by Archive35's Paul Mckeown

The Birds Eye View!

The Firefighters View- Buncefield

We got pretty Close!

About 300yrds away and you could feel the heat!

Half SEVEN .

07:03 11/12/05

From the field next to Hunters Oak

06:45 11/12/05

Featuring The Bongo

06:03 am 3years ago!

Just after ,and where my window was!!!!

Buncefield

on the 11th of December,3 years ago,the Buncefield oil depo blew up! ruining mine and many others homes and work places, Since that day, the oil barrons have continued to make billions, but they have also tried to aviod responsibility!! They have given nothing back to the people,or town they Destroyed!
Tommorow they are planning to unvail a £350,000 metal sculpture!
Maybe it was based on this building ?

With so many buildings still in ruins, it's lucky that we aint in a recession!!!!
So as it seams impossable to get a job in this town!!!! i'am gonna dedicate some of my time to showing and telling you what happened that day showing some of the pic's i took from that day,till today, some of the story i wrote that morning, Pictures's that i've aquired and hopefully some fresh Photo's showing the state that Hemel Hempstead is still in to this day!
This will be my Creation from the Destruction,This it may take some time to put together, but it will all be worth it!

Bonobo - Flutter

Today I am searching for tunes!

Sweet Smoke

Sweet Smoke,Just a toke! Hemels Rad rider, Si Taylor, gave us this around 2000, its a Wicked Album and still gets played to this day Thanks to Si . Enjoy!

Happy 21st Phil

Harpie Phils 21st

A Random Pic !

Dont fall a sleep, after being on a bender with the Hemel Lot!

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Finally found some time to put Some Fresh Pics up on my Flicker

go check them out! you might be in their!
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Tennis Elbow !

Today i gave in the pain and went to the hospital they gave me a selection of tablets that most us old fools will no of and booked us into the Fracture Clinic on Monday !

I as many others fort that Tennis Elbow were just a gay injury ! How wrong we all were! 5 odd months and a steriod injection later! its still killin me! My Advice to anyone with pains in their Elbow, Is to lay off and rest it. As it dont go it just gets worse!

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Buffalo Springfield

Underground Photography

I often wonder how the hell they find these place's

Go Check onetwotwofour.blogspot For more

it Snowed

Forgot to say,It only bloody snowed last night

Tight Terry

A few months ago our good friend Terry left for University! Uni-bloody-versity,not no collage course that people pretend was a Uni but the real thing ! Terry we miss you, hope all is going well mate. were roll again soon!

Pic by Hemels young gun Louis

Got the Tape out!

Yet another cam down! This is the 3rd Cam Broken,just a cheap one but they all handy! And they all cost dollar, So a big thank you to Ill Advised's Kat for lending us one!

On a good note i got the tape out from a good session me and Bazza had at Corby, until I bloody snapped it, so i think i gonna have to cellotape it! too get to see it now, it gotta be worth a try!

A Picture from the Hills

I took this 2weeks ago, as i aint been riding i fort i would pass threw Greenhills! They are certainly GREENHILLS
!

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Mike Saavedra

RJD2's 1976

This Tunes Wicked ! Vids a work of Art!

Super Hero Brother

G Loves " Peace Love Happiness from G's new album "Super Hero Brother"

DBC Update July

had a good few months riding a digging! We went a checked out STA Trails,had a wicked day riding their and all wanted to go back! but unfortunatly and Darren confirmed, The Trails have been destroyed, ploughed by the farmer!So R.I.P St Albans Trails!


The Harrow Death Jam went off! the Destruction Massive pretty much were all their, riding filmin taking pic's and enjoying Harrowskate parks last ever jam,Their so many faces to catch up with!Free Redbull BBQ and Cahartt/Zeal goodies! a wicked Day! Gunner and Bazza own that Park! The one bad point was the mistaken identity half hour row with some hoodlems they were gonna and in their words "Mack 10 ya brv""Give ya a dusting" and finally welll till i see the footage" Their gonna be a murder in this park Blood"Did'nt no whether to laugth or cry Lol
They were their "for revenge and to get Dom for looking like the guy who put one of them in a coma! these dicks and his mates were beatin the shit outta one of the younger locals and someone stepped in KARMA !
so R.I.P Harrow Skatepark! I got endless good memories
We got some Pics put up on Digbmx.com and we got Loads Roached! But its all good! Also the blog got a mention on Dig too,so big up to the Destruction Massive..
Also and from across the pond SHOLAbmx have been watching and biggin up our blog too!their some good riders on Shola They got a vid in the making and being made from No Run Ups so go check them out on their web page and add their new myspace page
Destructions Dvd is getting their just waiting on Ill Advised for the Beginging and other clips, Ross Domoney with his edits and some final footage from Bazza before we can finish editin and get it out! Been thinkin bout some tee's too as were coming up to 2 yrs! so when we find some time we will be workin on some designs!
In other news, Bazza and Tim went on Holiday and see Knock of Nigel everywhere! Check the pic's, P, Dreadloc Mat and Oliver had a messy day on the Pear Cider in Hydepark watching G love and SpecialSauce if you havent heard of him then check Hoffmans Madd Matt ! G's SICK!
Tweek went and see the Verve at Eden! Eden is a amazing place!
Hemels Old Skooler Steve Brewin hit the BIG 40 and Steph arranged a supprise get together at the local with the Nomads
Finally we been doing a bit of work ,and got our Trails Working ! and flowing nicely for the rest of the summer! good times are coming! We also Painted the Skatepark for its Bday this weekend so come down Hemel and ride with the Locals from 12 till late!

Thats it for now as Iam going for a Pedal
Peace and Luv
P

diggin in the sun!

Well this weekend some of us worked hard trying to get the beginging section workin! were a lovely weekend but we dug anyway.
After 2 hrs raising the 2nds landin, we finally got over the 3rd and a few more tweeks later Olly bitch cranks it threw all 9 sets !
We Probaly got a million more tweeks to do down Greenhills! but hey who has ever built a workin pack in 80days?No one ! so we have done really well and now we have our foundations built! well untill the winter Months!
As its been way too hot and with Someone Knickin the Tarp we is outta water, with out water its hardwork to make anything solid !
The Young guns have all relized how hard it is,We all relize how hard it is but us Greenhills massive Just want some Proper Trails and diggin in the suns the only way!

Today were a goodday and all are hard work in some way payed us back
Luv it
P

18Pack!!DONE!!

Today Our Quest for Trails almost come to a end! We started our Build on the 13th of April todays the 26th of June, 74 Days hard work!,
Today we finished! and become the proud diggers of a 18PACK!!!

Respect to all that have Helped us Dig Down Greenhills You no who you are!
MORE PIC'S 2MORRA
Peace and Luv

If 60's were the 90's

Around 1996 I brought The Beautiful People’s "If 60’s Were 90’s"Its An Amazing album!

Today I killed it! and have to search out another!

Another Day!

Dom Scuba and P had another hard Days diggin down Greenhills Today! building a step down and scoopin the step up a little more! Were now 1 away from the treat at the begining!
Chain comes 2morro !!!!which is a bit shit but not as shit as knowing were diggin, and stayin away. Then all turning up when were done and riding them before those who dug them!

Pic's from the weekends Dig!

Alot of changes to Greenhills this week, And all for the good. The Gaysection obviously had to go!! So we've built up all 3 of them up.With now Bigger and wider landings and take offs gaps more suitible to get in original big Section. Heres some pics of what we been up too, were about 10weeks in to Building Greenhills and have enongh space for a few more supprises yet!

Cant wait to see their faces Lol
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STA Day

This week we decided ,in away a treat for all are hard work To go and hook up with some freinds and have a look and see what they have been up too, We turned up to and all of us were pretty gobsmacked at all the changes! remembering when they had a few simple lines going! so the lads have been well busy over the years!
We rode, for 4 hrs. pretty much undisturbed and loved them! All of us having a pretty good day!Eventually the locals turned up ,It were just as we we're leaving!, so did'nt get to have the much wanted catch up and ride with them,but they were cool,Showed us how its done and invited us back, which we 100% will be doing soon!!!!

To the diggers of todays Trails, you no who you are RESPECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Come ride the Hills anytime!
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STA Day

This week we decided ,in away a treat for all are hard work To go and hook up with some freinds and have a look and see what they have been up too, We turned up to and all of us were pretty gobsmacked at all the changes! remembering when they had a few simple lines going! so the lads have been well busy over the years!
We rode, for 4 hrs. pretty much undisturbed and loved them! All of us having a pretty good day!Eventually the locals turned up ,It were just as we we're leaving!, so did'nt get to have the much wanted catch up and ride with them,but they were cool,Showed us how its done and invited us back, which we 100% will be doing soon!!!!

To the diggers of todays Trails, you no who you are RESPECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Come ride the Hills anytime!
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STA Day

This week we decided ,in away a treat for all are hard work To go and hook up with some freinds and have a look and see what they have been up too, We turned up to and all of us were pretty gobsmacked at all the changes! remembering when they had a few simple lines going! so the lads have been well busy over the years!
We rode, for 4 hrs. pretty much undisturbed and loved them! All of us having a pretty good day!Eventually the locals turned up ,It were just as we we're leaving!, so did'nt get to have the much wanted catch up and ride with them,but they were cool,Showed us how its done and invited us back, which we 100% will be doing soon!!!!

To the diggers of todays Trails, you no who you are RESPECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Come ride the Hills anytime!
P

Low Rider II

Russel Knuds,is an Original Idiot,and has had this Low Rider a while now!

Pretty damm Pimp in its Chrome and Gold!

Tweeks new ride!

No not this one! Tweeks new Ride will be Ridable after he finishes Pimpin this one!Bling fuckin Bling!!!! as he put it! he waitin on bearins so hopefully he be back soon!
While Putting some pics up up took this on Thursday and had never seen it done at Hemel, so Respect to Olly Mcpherson and Robb Bearin or somin LOL

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DBC Update June 08

Not much riding as it Rained!A Months worth of rain in a day and its Continued to rain!!!!!!!!!!!
So gonna start with the best bit of news i have Heard from the lads in ages!
One of my longest riding mates,Hemels Darren "The General" Lee Become a Dad! yes you hear me Darrens a Dad.Never belived he had it in him Lol
Yesterday at 3.16pm,weighin in at 12.5 oz, Jaimee Grace Lee was born! So Concrats to Darren, Fran.This Vid is for you Bro Luv ya man !
His lookin to have a session a corby so if any of ya lads sre up for it we be going Corby the weekend!
Scubas Steves Site A Quest for Trails has been building up! with some good Trails only Vids and Regular updates on what Him and the lads have been upto down Destructions Trails, Go check it out as I no his got loads of Ideas and Plans with it!
In other news, over the next couple of weeks Destruction Rider Olly McPherson will be takin over the Myspace page!helpin towards the Blogs,and generall Destruction stuff .Also Nigel and the lads been banging on about getting some Tees and Olly will be doing some design/Ideas etc for them !Respect to Him!!!
The DVD's coming on Mark from Ill Advised been workin hard Filmin Editing and I cant wait to see what he comes up with! Archive35 and their edits are also coming on and Hopefully i will get to see them near, sometime over the next week they been well busy recently with Archive35's 3day Launch Coming from the 11th of June, its at the London College of Communication, Elephat and Castle,If you are interested in seeing what they been upto heres ya chance!

Finally, Olly & Newbee Rhino got a fresh rides! so Some bike checks to come!Crazy Dave, is back ridin after rippin his arse open!He still as CRAZY as ever!And we love him for it "If you cant Do the DAVE you cant do shit!" Looking forward to the summer finally gettin here

Big up The Destruction Massive!

6 weeks, And Digging hard!!!!!

6 weeks in and what we have achieved is awesome!!!!!
It was getting hard work Diggin in the sun but the rain came at just the right time!!!!!,A Months worth in a Day!!!! letting us repair the main line.and making work on the others much easier!
There looking good,big n scary haha!!!!!.
A bit of sadness tho as the newbies bar Rhino, have relised what hard work is involed in building Trails and have not bin seen![well at the park you can] so we'v taken over and now our creating a new line yet to be named......?
The pool liner(Tarp) was installed,yes u read right,we have a pool in the makin Lol!!!
So a recapp on the Hills!
We now start at a rollin as we all agreed NO PEDELING,its enough of a walk back to the top! then a manual stepup,whoops,4 pack then 2 choices,at the moment, either the main line,or the start of the rollercoster line which starts by dropping deep into the ground from a landing into a big double then of into 2 berms and hopefully a big stepup back into the main line! ,its forever in devolopment but always letting you transfer back ino the mainline!
Well dats it for this week. My stiches came out last week so i can get some serious digging done and take advantage of the rain,keep checking in as pics n vid's constantly being updated
peace n luv to all those that dig!

Scuba and the Greenhills Massive

5 weeks into Our Dig!

In the last week we have been well busy, we've built up the first quiet a bit it!And the 2nd set got built up and extended to 12 and half foot Making it now the largest of the 4 in the Main, Their now a decent size!
P was their tester and after a hour of messing about with them, a few stacks Lips tweeked etc he got threw at speed, going massive over the last!and lovin it
In his words "Now your Heart beats a lot quicker! Their Wicked, Scary Big, Yeah".Their get a few more tweeks and their be done till winter !!!

Also we built up and finished the New Additions jumps!!!!!!!!! They just wern't getting anywhere with them and summer would of been here before they new it! So we took them over,And made them a little bigger,Well for this week anyway! Now that the lads are near finishin the main pack! they will have to be built up again to match!
Some Whoops and a Manual thing have also been added makin Greenhills a little more fun!at the begining, Ollie Loved them Lol, Scuba's almost finished the Scoop ! You can see the Scoop on the left,in the the picture above Also you can see the man himself chillin after finishing.Taken from the 2nd landing of the gaysection!!!!!
Well after 5 weeks diggin in the sun,seeing all the changes with the jumps and the area we chose, Greenhills is quiet a good relevent name for them as its Very Green up their!!!!! This week we've been begging for some rain so we can tweek and make some proper repairs to the main section, and we got what we were wishing for today a full days worth of Rain! So let the Tweeking begin!

Some more Photos soon!!

Big up to all the Diggers who are making this happen,
The rest of ya who are obviously avioding the dig, or just sit their and watch,
!!You Suck!!
but at the end of the Day its your loss!

untill next weeks update,

Peace out and Keep pedalin

P and The Greenhills Massive

Their growing

Mixed feelings today,went to the hospital to av stiches out to find out its infected, damm. But as i arrived at Greenhills i was met by the sight off are newest n youngest diggers Sam n Louis jumping the 1st off the new line,big smiles all round, respect.
The 1st in the main pack is ready n looking sweet, 2 is being built up as i write,3 is all good while 4 awaits the landing it deserves. Much needed rain arrived today (thank the Lord) so were be heads down arse's up as we get them ready for the next bout off sun!!!!
Peace n love Scuba

Greenshills Trails

ill pickup wer BIG P left,1st off BIG RESPECT to all those involed,getn off your arses n helpin,
So were 1 month into building a set of trails and i thought i'd wright a blog on what it means to me.8 years of riding with the bmxers off the doubleH, lots of talk on building a proper set,and a few lame attemps and finally YES it's happend (at this point heaps off respect to all involed,easy to spot,their the one's with the big smiles at the sk8park) in a month diggin,lots of hard work,blood sweat and tears ,but most of all lots off love...............

our be back with more of the greenhills story some vids, bits on the diggers! and other Trails related stuff when i finally work this shit out!
keep Checking Back!
Peace and luv
Scuba Steve and the Greenhills Massive!

Destruction Bmx

Scuba Steve

I'am 38yrs old,2 awesome kids Jordan 16 n Nicole 14.I drive fuel tankers for a living , 15y.rs in the building trade took it's toll and I wanted to save what was left of a wrecked body for what I lovesss most BMX.Part from time off to have kids etc in early adulthood i'v been riding since the age of 10 and enjoyed all the place's it's taken me,the people i'v met (which some av been life long freinds)good time's and the bad. Dirt is were my love for bmx started, up at Potten End so to finally be building a new begining in the history off BMX in The DoubleH is amazing, Peace n Love

DBC working to get trails in Hemel

Just got back from a meeting with our local council about installing a track and trails in Hemel Hempstead, Meeting went well , we explained what we need and how it would be to the counciler and they all seam keen!, Now myself Carl and Scuba have to put forward for planning permission basically showing the council what we want in the space provided,
The Space is ruffly 40m wide at the top 100m wide at bottom and 75m long on a hill, so it be a good size if all goes well

The Councilers also confirmed £5000 towards the Project,
Unfortunatly I dont 100 %how long this Project will take, but if we get Planning permission granted! it should go threw quickly
Fingers crossed it this year , but were see

Be good to no what you all think ,
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Paul Mckeown
Destruction Breeds Creation

Vinyl

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Owen Williams Bike Check

Harrows Ogwin Mailed us saying his ride was by far the best!
I aint to sure Lol, but its pretty bling, so here's his Bike Check.
Frame; Standard 250L
Forks; Odyssey race forks
Handle Bar's; Odyssey Civilian
Stem; Elementary Stem
Grips; ODI longnecks
Levers; Odyssey M2 Trigger chrome
Cable's; Odyssey Linear Cables
Front Rim : Hazard Lite Rims 36
Front Hub; Odyssey vandero 2
Rear Rim : Hazard Lite Rims 36
Rear Hub; Odyssey Cassette
Spoke's; demolition
Rear Brake; Evolver Evo II
Tyre's; (front) Odyssey Plyte 2.10 (rear) OdysseyPlyte 1.85
Cranks; Odyssey Wombolt
Seat; Odyssey Veteran Saddle
Seat Post; Alone
Chainring; BSD light
Chain; KMC Z51OHX
Pedals; Jim Cielencki
special Mod's; sweet paint job by Tim Byrne
Comment's; Thanks Rick and Jess at standardbyke.com,
James at zealbmx.com, and Tim

Ollie Mcpherson Bike Check!

Ollie has been busting all sorts of tricks out recently,
also his PIMPed his ride!
Frame; 2007 wethepeople fourseasons
Forks; Sunday!
Handle Bar's; macneil silencer XLT
Stem; standard
Grips; fly ruben (one short)
Levers; primo
Cable's; abikes
Front Rim : sun black box
Front Hub; Fly
Front Brake; no thanks
Rear Rim : G-sport
Rear Hub; profile minicassette
Spoke's; primo (blue and white)
Rear Brake; odyssey
Tyre's; (front) primo dirtmonster (rear) primo v monster
Peg's; real heavy!
Cranks; not a clue!
Seat; macneil slim
Seat Post; macneil pivitol stump
Chainring; 28t shadow
Chain; Eastern half link
Pedals; wellgo
special Mod's; ti rear axle and driver!
Comment's; new cranks nd my steed shall be done!
best thing iv ever bought!!

ollie

Attack of the Emo Clones

What has happenened to the state of riders today ? Yesterday P Bazza Nigel and Barry hit a packed out corby !Big mistake paying the 11quid to ride a unridable park, you could'nt ride anything properly as all the sponser me wanna be's were out trying their double whipfliptricks and going for gold! their were snakes everywhere, riders were cutting others up on purpose!which is never good to see Not only that, and exactly as Nigel said " It looks like the Attack of the Emo Clones, they all got the same bars, their bikes all look the same,they all have the same footjam style and they got the same Womens trousers on, WTF's going on man!" to which we all laughed hard at! But what he said is true as you could see the clone troopers every where !
It was a shame to see as us older rider grew up riding just for fun and the goodtimes only!we would all wait are turn and laugh at each others expence!Riders today come across as if they deserve the extra go in the bowl to do yet another 10 footjams and the same tricks they been doing all day and because?????well i dont no, we all paid the 11 Squids to get in, so get to the back of the cue CLONE!
BMXing is a freestyle sport! which is a good thing! wearing exactly the same pants as your mates, Women pants at that ! is a strange thing which half of us will never understand and probaly dont even wanna, Men wear mens cloths for good reasons, hence, Womens and Men's! each to their own tho hey!.