Kieran Turner's photos with the keyword: 1990

Harley, my much beloved first car. A 1970 Sunbeam Alpine fastback, with a gorgeous polished wood dashboard (an upgraded one from a Humber Sceptre, I suspect) and the same unbreakable 1725 engine as my grandad's Hillman Hunters, for added nostalgia ;) I learned how to do little restorative jobs through the summer until I got my driving license, for example on those little bits of rust you can see around the door in this photo. By the time a license came around I'd sorted out every little ding in the bodywork, and my mum's friend Norman had helped me change a clutch cylinder. My dad stepped in to get the head skimmed, and by the end of the year this was an amazing Alpine. And if you look carefully, in the passenger seat is my much beloved Grandma Meg. Both are now absent. x

Mike, having gate-crashed an early Niteline session (as a mate of ours, not as a client), surrounded by typical student detritus — roadworks equipment and an amp... Those are the feet of my VERY first girlfriend, Sarah Buckland. Where are you now I wonder? And when did we last get milk in those cardboard containers!? The scene is in the "social centre" of Park Village, on the campus of Sussex University. A while after this, the confidential listening service, Niteline, got it's very own flat on the campus. Which has since been demolished. Hope they have a nice new home!

Winter of 1990/91, and I'd just arrived at a new university (for the first but not the last time...) And it was pretty! Back then it snowed in the winter. These days it doesn't seem to in Brighton. But then, we played with snowballs. And I gained my almost-first girlfriend thanks to accepting an invitation to go "sledding" in the middle of the night. I did point out it was "sledging" in British English. She dated me anyway ;) We made the sledges from old vegetable boxes (donated by the "Crumbs" café in York House) wrapped in bin-liners. They didn't work well...