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28/06/2026
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Elsewhere – The Story Of UK Skateboarding North East Launch Party, Pilgrim Newcastle 2nd July!

Elsewhere is the incredible skateboard history book released by Neil Macdonald, documenting the UK skateboarding scene between 1987-2002. The book successfully launched last month, and to celebrate, there’s a North East Elsewhere launch party hosted by friend of the shop Mike O’Brien at his Newcastle city centre based bar Pilgrim. To read more about the contents of the book itself, check out the blog post we’ve already released here; https://www.nativeskatestore.co.uk/blog/2026/03/17/elsewhere-the-history-of-uk-skateboarding-book-by-neil-macdonald/ The launch party on July 2nd will be kicking off around 7pm, and will have a lot going on during... Read More

08/11/2019
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Newcastle Upon Tyne Skateboard Article – Sidewalk Magazine July 2008

In a bid to document pre-internet North East skateboarding (we lost a whole load of great stuff when our old forum was deleted. Doh!) We’re going to try and upload any Magazine articles we can find to our blog here. This post we have scanned in an article simply entitled ‘Newcastle’ from the July 2008 issue of Sidewalk Magazine. I’d been pushing for some Toon based coverage in the magazine for years and finally Leo Sharp and Andy Horsley managed to get up and get out with the new breed... Read More

01/11/2019
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Washington Oval Skatepark Article From RAD Magazine Issue 78 August 1989

In a bid to document pre-internet North East skateboarding (we lost a whole load of great stuff when our old forum was deleted. Doh!) We’re going to try and upload any Magazine articles we can find to our blog here. This post we have scanned in an article entitled ‘Somewhere To Skate? Washington’ from R.A.D. Magazine Issue 78 from August 1989. The Oval in Concord, Washington was ‘The’ North East Indoor Skatepark back in the day. It was technically a community centre with some quarterpipes and a jump ramp in... Read More

18/03/2013
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King of The How Man! 2013

It’s been a while now since we brought you the epic skateboard competition weekend that is  KOTHM. With the first KOTHM being all the way back in 2006, we have  decided to bring it back for another year. We are currently in the process of thinking up this years format, so keep your eyes peeled for the dates, challenges and more updates to be announced soon on the Native Blog! In the meantime check out The Deekies edit from 2011 below!

30/01/2013

Native Skate Store on Svpply

We just want to let you guys know about a new social shopping feature we have added in to the Native Skate Store website. You may have already have seen it if you have been browsing the site over the last couple of days. Svpply is the latest social shopping website similar to the likes of Pintrest. What Svpply does is it lets you keep track and share products you like from shops that have Svpply enabled on their website. You can login via your Facebook and Twitter accounts or... Read More

05/07/2012

Native Skate Store Is Now On Instagram – Follow Us @nativeskate

Ok well there’s a large percentage of you out there already using Instagram, if you aren’t already using it check it out, it’s a great fun way of sharing photo’s with friends and family. The growing Iphone population is fast latching on to using this form of social networking. We’ve been bitten by the Instagram bug here at Native and regulalry send an image or two up into cyberspace for our followers to see. Sometimes it’s new products, funny things that stoke us out or sometimes it’s just general stuff.... Read More

23/04/2012
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Follow Us On Facebook

Everyone (well nearly everyone) is on facebook these days. It’s hard to think what we did before we had this great social network, looks like Facebook’s here to stay. If you haven’t liked us already on facebook, then head on over to our page here and get liking us. We feature new products on there most days and if any video’s, pictures,stories etc stand out to us online we normally stick them up on there for our followers to see. It’s a great way of keeping in touch with the... Read More