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Post by Jon on Jun 18, 2019 23:43:42 GMT
Tommy Northcott used to live in Drake Avenue and once fixed my toilet... Wow. That is some claim to fame! I bet Tommy dined out on it for years. I do hope for his sake that he didn't come round to unblock the toilet the day after a curry night. |
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Post by Jon on Jun 18, 2019 23:46:16 GMT
Fascinating read this thread...how about player manager Mr Percy Mackrill who became secretary manager and was living at 46 St Margarets Avenue in 1928...just a stones throw away from the ground. I think most players lived very close to the ground before WW2. They didn't move out to the posh places like Chelston until the 50s. |
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Post by chelstongull on Jun 19, 2019 6:52:08 GMT
Andy Donnelly lived on Frobisher Green and would come to the Sherwell Valley School Fete where you could pay sixpence to take 3 penalties on him. If you scored all 3 you got your money back. I scored the first 2 and then he gave me the Grobelaar wobbly knees on the 3rd and I blasted it over the bar into Shiphay Manor Stables. Sixpence was a lot of money in those days. I remember Andy Donnelly at the Sherwell Valley school fete. We all had wobbly knees after landing in the TBGS sandpit. Sorry Jon, I'm sure the sand was imported from top beaches around the world and raked by chaps in black bowlers. |
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