timbo
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Post by timbo on Nov 21, 2013 21:20:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2013 17:04:40 GMT
Reading as a routine league fixture, along with QPR, Middlesbrough, Fulham, and Aston Villa. Those were the days! Gone but never forgotten  I am often fascinated by how Timbo selects his programmes for posting. Some weeks it's obvious when we're playing a regular opponent. Then there are his special themes such as the recent series of away cup-ties on non-league grounds. Occasionally we see little batches of programmes from clubs that we are unlikely to face on a regular basis. Timbo, being a wise man, sees no point in holding these back on the off-chance of a future meeting. This is when he gives us the Readings. Middlesbroughs, QPRs, Fulhams and Villas. But, as well as being wise, Timbo is also an optimist. Here I believe he is quietly telling us that we won't be playing Southport in the foreseeable future. All is well at Plainmoor. Unless, of course, Southport are going down. Haig Avenue 1972. Little did we know that we wouldn't be playing Southport too many times again. They went up, down and out. John Church, chair of Southport and agricultural produce merchant. There's a fair number of those out there on the Lancashire fens. Many are called Sutton and I knew one once. Indeed he once took me to one of those Southport discotheque places. A cousin of his, incidentally, was Dave Sutton who played for Argyle and managed Rochdale. And I take it that Ron Ellis was Southport's answer to Pete Wiley? Silk scarves a bargain at 50p. |
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Rags
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Post by Rags on Nov 22, 2013 17:15:54 GMT
 What a front cover! That photo must have been a few years old by 1972 as that is five years after those Ford Anglia's ceased production. Is that a 1950's Austin Cambridge parked behind the darker Anglia? Difficult to tell as a lot of cars looked the same in the 50's. Maybe a Rover P4 but the back window looks a bit too upright. And what parking! If anyone left that much room in front and behind when they parked outside my house these days I'd have a proper hissy fit, make no mistake... They don't make cars like that anymore, which is just as well or it would take me three days to get to Torquay and another three days to get back... |
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Post by Rags on Nov 22, 2013 17:21:11 GMT
Silk scarves a bargain at 50p. So is a loan from Heron Finance at 24% APR. They'd never even heard of the word Wonga, never mind the profit opportunities open to them... EDIT: Heron Finance of 47 Tulketh Street; that address is now a branch of Swinton Insurance... |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2013 19:39:18 GMT
Indeed some fine old cars in that cover picture. But we shouldn't overlook Arthur & Olive's motorbike and sidecar ! No doubt they'd escaped from Pontins Southport for a little while when filming Holiday On The Buses.  I take it Southport's No.11 never attracted the interest of nearby Liverpool, although a 'Frank Lee Mr.Shankly' headline wouldn't have been fully appreciated in those pre Smiths days. |
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