{"id":197244,"date":"2026-06-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=197244"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:34:03","slug":"50-years-of-rising-and-falling-the-love-of-skateboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=197244","title":{"rendered":"50 Years  of Rising And Falling; The Love of Skateboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-69a3bfd0261869b2b60d9e7baf40144b wp-block-paragraph\">Who knew that beneath the concrete pillars of London\u2019s Southbank Centre, &#8216;The Undercroft&#8217; unfolded as a living archive of movement, memory, and belonging. What began as an overlooked architectural void became, in the 1980s, the birthplace of British skateboarding; a space where a generation carved out freedom, identity, and community through repetition and motion. Today, <em>through the&nbsp;a <\/em>new skateboarding exhibition &#8216;Skate 50&#8217;&nbsp;this iconic site reflects on fifty years of history, revealing how a single urban space can shape multiple generations. Explores how the same ground can hold different struggles across time, while responding to the same fundamental human need: to belong, in<em> Fifty Years Of Falling And Becoming : Our Love For the 80&#8217;s.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f6316bc9e7d75748b32c3984364c344b wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The South Bank Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-55e5d186603312c18e1f8364109808b6 wp-block-paragraph\">once upon a time, there was a post-ww2 set of buildings created to celebrate all that was good about Britain after a terrible period of war. this became known as the Southbank centre, a meeting place of culture and art, a reminder that after horrendous times, beauty still survives and blossoms. it connects the raw, physical energy of the 1980s skate scene with the more introspective gaze of generation z, who are attentive to questions of identity, representation, and storytelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5d807884927b98d4e0c27ddc9804de26 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Southbank Skatepark History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4b3301b3fba43e34ed13ddf30505a3ff wp-block-paragraph\">Beneath the Queen Elizabeth Hall, at London\u2019s Southbank Centre, there is a space that was never meant to be remarkable. And yet, for fifty years, it has held the pulse of generations. &#8216;The Undercroft&#8217; does not announce itself loudly. It hums. Light slips between pillars. The Thames moves quietly nearby. What appears at first to be the underbelly of architecture becomes something else entirely: a meeting point between movement and memory, between youth and time. This is where British skateboarding found its voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1980-3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"774\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1980-3.jpg?resize=580%2C774&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Southbank\" class=\"wp-image-197447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1980-3.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1980-3.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cc28f0870f870ea7313f578b2fd1925e wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Undercroft London<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-064fa9dd6d306404dee9154c722d40db wp-block-paragraph\">In the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/swatchtime-in-the-1980s\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/swatchtime-in-the-1980s\/\">1980s<\/a><\/strong>, the Undercroft was not famous. It was alive. A skateboard touches the ground.??? The sound rings clean and bright beneath the concrete canopy. Teenagers gather not because they were invited, but because they felt something open there, a rhythm, a possibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-66954fe40ddf96f48ecfbf517e4a78a6 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Skateboarding in London<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ed954de6498ed7fba370dac4dec64180 wp-block-paragraph\">The city above was structured and formal. Below, bodies traced new lines across ledges and banks. What architecture had left unfinished, imagination completed. The Undercroft became more than a skate spot. It became a sanctuary of becoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-75f2bd5e4831692e03af36fb53f4807a wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Graffiti at Southbank<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4815e3ff39f1e35c5629363e2441e79c wp-block-paragraph\">The transformation of the Undercroft was not only written in the scars of the concrete, but painted upon it. Alongside the wheels came the aerosol cans. Over fifty years, the gray pillars became a shifting, living canvas of street art and graffiti, layered with colors, tags, and messages that changed by the day. Like the skate lines traced on the ground, the art on the walls was an assertion of presence, a vibrant dialogue between the youth and the city. It was a visual rebellion that turned a cold architectural void into a cathedral of urban expression, proving that before Gen Z claimed narrative territory, the pioneers had already claimed the walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8b802998274b426dc5cb20c6622b1660 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Skateboarding<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-059786e4ad94aea77170d9d065684f0e wp-block-paragraph\">Friendships were forged in repetition. Identity was shaped through balance. The simple act of returning, day after day, turned the space into something sacred. Not polished. Not curated. Just shared. If someone asked, \u201cAre you a Southbanker?\u201d it meant you had learned the language of the pillars, the patience of falling, the poetry of persistence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1980-1-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1980-1-1.jpg?resize=580%2C386&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"London Undercroft\" class=\"wp-image-197424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1980-1-1.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1980-1-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-29b3cb9a08ac69e43d0613ee56fdd35a wp-block-paragraph\">London Undercroft<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2d034e9362ff3391ab2b502878468b5e wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>British Skateboarding Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d12d420eb1b9e8ad598fd37465f9383d wp-block-paragraph\">What began as instinct slowly became history. Over decades, the Undercroft witnessed transformations: teenagers growing older but never leaving entirely, styles evolving, cameras appearing, stories accumulating. The space absorbed it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-dbba011f09daf4aea12ca4396bdbce2b wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Skateboard Heritage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6ef826498ed3bb0b7390de23760aced6 wp-block-paragraph\">Now, with Skate 50, the Southbank Centre reflects on this evolution, not as nostalgia, but as continuity. Archival footage flickers. Portraits capture faces once young and fearless, now lined with time yet still luminous with recognition. Soundscapes echo the rhythm of wheels against stone. There is something deeply moving about seeing what once felt fleeting revealed as enduring. What was once a moment becomes a lineage. What was once rebellion becomes heritage. The Undercroft has not changed its essence. It has simply expanded its memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f76ba8ea8af4fd830b8c7657d159b03f wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Skate 50 Exhibition London<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0a787021470ecf0d99ad58a30b74db54 wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition does not frame the Undercroft as a relic. It presents it as a living organism. Artists, filmmakers, and skaters who grew up beneath those pillars return not to romanticize the past, but to honor the space that shaped them. Through moving image, photography, and sound, they reconstruct the atmosphere of decades, the quiet concentration before a trick, the shared silence after a fall, the collective breath of a community moving together. Fifty years of presence is not accidental. It is built from thousands of small returns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1980-2-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1980-2-1.jpg?resize=580%2C387&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Skate 50 exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-197442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1980-2-1.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1980-2-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-afb8e326180b7e472cf0f30993b6de7a wp-block-paragraph\">Undercroft Skate Space, 1989 \u00a9 Tim Leighton Boyce_Curtis McCann, Southbank. Images courtesy The Read and Destroy Archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9a7cde246ade1f1e845e4a9f9b12b47d wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Gen Z Identity <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-54c4287101650e3fe1bc505534bbd903 wp-block-paragraph\">And yet, something new is unfolding under the same concrete sky. Generation Z approaches space differently. They still skate. The rhythm remains. But they also look and question. If the 1980s generation claimed physical territory, Gen Z claims narrative territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b5414f51ae4f4fdb043d918798b9b285 wp-block-paragraph\">They explore <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/north-identity-photography-fashion\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/north-identity-photography-fashion\/\"><strong>identity<\/strong><\/a> with nuance and courage. Gender becomes fluid. Race and history are not background but foreground. The body is not only a performer of tricks but a site of transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-dfbdfc6a6791e19198f55333eb03082d wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/photography-turned-in-on-itself-opening-honest-new-windows\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/photography-turned-in-on-itself-opening-honest-new-windows\/\"><strong>Photography<\/strong><\/a>, especially in contemporary exhibitions like &#8216;GEN Z: Shaping a New Gaze&#8217;, becomes an extension of this movement. The camera does not simply record; it redefines. It asks: Who is seen? Who belongs? Who decides? Under the pillars of the Undercroft, the act of skating becomes intertwined with the act of self-definition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-df206ce93fd36faac5edf3507b88e501 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Then and Now<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b1893e212fc8851a8b0489fd8b28a2d8 wp-block-paragraph\">Across decades, the core question remains the same: Where can I stand and be fully <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/youve-got-to-express-yourself\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/youve-got-to-express-yourself\/\"><strong>myself<\/strong><\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e1275a23007b4c23bda71fa1f3eff53e wp-block-paragraph\">In the 1980s, the answer was found in gathering, in carving space out of architecture. In showing up. In insisting on presence. In 2026, the answer expands. It includes visibility, representation, multiplicity. It includes rewriting the narrative, not just occupying the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0b723f617cb63dc45fd201052145ce17 wp-block-paragraph\">The Undercroft bridges these impulses. It holds both the quiet rebellion of the past and the articulate resistance of the present. A man in his sixties rolls past a teenager exploring new forms of expression. They share the same concrete. Different histories, same gravity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1980-1-2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1980-1-2.jpg?resize=580%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Skate 50 exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-197443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1980-1-2.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1980-1-2.jpg?resize=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-40c969c2c311862d31ddf0ed4b9b1273 wp-block-paragraph\">Undercroft Skate Space, 1978 \u00a9 Tim Leighton Boyce_Russ Howell, Southbank. Images courtesy The Read and Destroy Archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-64a97510aeb82b2d57a467f9a8d12b17 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Legacy of the Southbank Undercroft<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-59cdf70deb0395e54e88475f306fa0c4 wp-block-paragraph\">What makes the Undercroft extraordinary is not only its endurance, but its openness. It was never designed as a monument. It became one through use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-753e5b4b22e4a15f12a30305e834375f wp-block-paragraph\">The pillars have witnessed hesitation and triumph, solitude and solidarity. They have heard wheels, laughter, silence. They have watched generations negotiate identity against a backdrop of stone and light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bf14a137a798fc20154c7ee9e749edd1 wp-block-paragraph\">Underneath London\u2019s cultural <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/10-skylines-that-are-shaping-the-world\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/10-skylines-that-are-shaping-the-world\/\"><strong>skyline<\/strong><\/a>, this space continues to offer something rare: continuity without confinement. The concrete does not dictate who you are. It simply holds you as you find out. And perhaps that is why, fifty years on, the sound of a skateboard rolling across the Undercroft still feels like a beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9ba72bbfc8efdd17e99282fdbdbabaae wp-block-paragraph\">In the end, the story of the Undercroft is not only about skateboarding, but about the timeless human desire to find a place where we can exist freely, visibly, and together. Across fifty years, generations have transformed this concrete space into a living symbol of resilience, creativity, and belonging. From the rebellious energy of the 1980s to the reflective voices of <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/culture-style-and-inspiration-of-the-new-generation\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/culture-style-and-inspiration-of-the-new-generation\/\"><strong>Gen Z<\/strong><\/a>, the Undercroft continues to prove that some places do more than survive history, they carry it forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6c00137f6d1c921eec459dff6824f74e wp-block-paragraph\">Find out more about the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southbankcentre.co.uk\/whats-on\/skate-50\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.southbankcentre.co.uk\/whats-on\/skate-50\/\">Skate 50 Exhibition<\/a><\/strong> here<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-017a440eea2911f7d550b24b81849a6d wp-block-paragraph\">If you enjoyed reading <em>Fifty Years Of Falling And Becoming : Our Love For the 80&#8217;s<\/em> why not read <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/a-stunning-anniversary-southbanks-75-years-of-cultural-growth\/\"><em><strong>A Stunning Anniversary: Southbank\u2019s 75 years of Cultural Growth<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew that beneath the concrete pillars of London\u2019s Southbank Centre, &#8216;The Undercroft&#8217; 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