timbo
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Post by timbo on Mar 3, 2010 20:41:38 GMT
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Post by stefano on Mar 4, 2010 7:19:37 GMT
I like the photograph in this one from a Darlington v Southport match. Look at what they are playing on! That is when men were men though and didn't blame things on the pitch. Mind you at that time they weren't even thinking of 1G mobile phones let alone 4G artificial pitches!  |
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Post by stewart on Mar 6, 2010 20:06:44 GMT
What I find most remarkable about this picture is that, unless my eyes deceive me, the end of the pitch in the distance seems to have no seating or terracing, although you can see some trees and entire buildings and a few figures who appear to be standing behind a metal fence.
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Post by merse on Mar 6, 2010 20:58:59 GMT
What I find most remarkable about this picture is that, unless my eyes deceive me, the end of the pitch in the distance seems to have no seating or terracing, although you can see some trees and entire buildings and a few figures who appear to be standing behind a metal fence.  Indeed until the erection of the small covered terrace and roof (as so excellently illustrated in Leigh's pictures the other night) in approximately 1963, the cricket ground end of the set up consisted of little more than a flat topped "path" with a few steps down either side of it facing their respective sports. Feethams was always a combined football and cricket venue rather like Torquay Rec, even after the construction of that stand; with turnstiles and entrances/exits that necesitated the traversal of the cricket arena to enter the football ground from the town end of the ground. |
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Post by Budleigh on Mar 6, 2010 21:33:58 GMT
This is the almost identical view to that in the programme (note the church spire) taken when I visited last year and after Feethams had been left to rot for some years. The terracing under this cover has gone, the only reason the remains of the stand have been been left is that the other side acts as a sightscreen for the cricket club... The ornate pavilion can be seen to it's left. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2010 12:16:24 GMT
Thanks, once again, to Timbo for taking the trouble to post all those Darlington programmes.
Personally, I’m not sure what makes pre-1970 programmes more interesting than the later ones. I hope it’s not purely old-fashioned nostalgia on my behalf, especially as I’m not someone who believes the past was a better place. Maybe programmes were more quirky and informative before – shudder the thought – they became matchday magazines (a Jimmy Hill innovation at Coventry?). Or is it a simple case that certain things – including football programmes – are just that more important to you at a certain age?
So it’s Timbo’s selection from the 1960s which interests me the most, together with Leigh’s fantastic pictures from 1966 (I’m assuming they come from our famous game there?). For instance, from that 1960 programme, you’ve got Ken Furphy and Bobby Baxter in the same Darlington side. And, if Wiki, is to be believed both have summarised for Radio Devon. Who’d have thought it?
Torquay form the “deep south.” Given regionalisation had only finished in 1958 maybe playing the likes of ourselves was still akin to receiving visitors from Alabama or Louisiana?
As for Binns restaurant, I nearly headed for the old department store’s basement cappuccino bar last Saturday (there wouldn’t have been too many of those in the Darlo of 1960). Indeed, given all those adverts for pre-match cafes and pubs, it’s strange how we were commenting last Saturday about how you wouldn’t have known there was a match in town. When the waitress in the café asked us what we were doing, it was almost as if she’d forgotten that football matches still take place in Darlington.
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