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Reply | Pompey and Circumstance Match Fred
at 19:26 21 Feb 2025
I don't remember my first match, I'm told I was on dad's shoulders in the loft. I was 5. Dad was an aquaintance of Tony Ingham and Brian Bedford. Brian once turned up at dad's club on a Friday night.
"What you doing here Brian? Are you in the stiffs?"
"No, I'm playing tomorrow".
Brian had 6 pints. Different world. |
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Reply | Pompey and Circumstance Match Fred
at 18:13 21 Feb 2025
No, a Man City supporter from Longsight who I was working with. She's long since gone, now lives in Southampton. I eventually came back and resumed schoolteaching.
I'm in Hastings now. |
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Reply | Pompey and Circumstance Match Fred
at 18:03 21 Feb 2025
Despite my username I now live in Sussex. I know you live in Spain, I lived in Zaragoza 1987-91 teaching EFL |
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Thread | Pompey and Circumstance Match Fred
at 16:02 21 Feb 2025
I rarely post and have never started a match fred, but to celebrate 70 years of supporting the Rs this year I thought I'd do it.
2-0 to the good guys. [Post edited 21 Feb 16:31]
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Reply | Ronnie Boyce
at 15:49 15 Feb 2025
"Ticker" because he was the heartbeat of the team. |
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Reply | Where was the Head Coach?
at 09:32 2 Feb 2025
He's got the flu. Calm started his post match interview by mentioning it. |
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Reply | RIP Marianne Faithfull
at 20:27 30 Jan 2025
Yep, I always thought that my life was pretty fast, but it was sedate compared to her. Hope that means that I've got a few more years in me. |
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Thread | RIP Marianne Faithfull
at 19:58 30 Jan 2025
Gone at 78. She did well to get to that age. 4 years older than me, so obviously one of my desires as a teenager. |
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Reply | How about a few “not a lot of people know thats”
at 17:27 27 Jan 2025
Cannon balls were stored on deck stacked in a holder made of brass which was known as a "monkey". In very cold weather the brass would contract and the balls would fall off, hence "being cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" |
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Reply | A complete unknown
at 10:21 21 Jan 2025
I saw it on Saturday. Wonderful film, excellent acting and nostalgic for me as a 75 year old as I remember it all. |
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Reply | Working Mens Clubs/ Constitutional Clubs.
at 17:24 16 Jan 2025
A bit of history for you. The Village Inn was previously The Railway Hotel. In March 1944 Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to make a last ditch bombing attack on London with the dwindling numbers of planes left . It became known as the "mini Blitz"
Dad was working at Bratt Colbran in Lancelot Road, which was then making aircraft parts. As the chargehand in the toolroom (yes, he was a toolmaker, but I'm not Keir Starmer) he was in a reserved occupation so not called up. My mum's dad, my grandad George was 64 and not working. Mum told him that he must do something for the war effort, so dad got him a job as a night watchman at the factory. Every night he'd get two trolleybuses from Willesden up to the Railway Hotel, where he'd sink several pints then totter down to his reinforced concrete "bombproof" night watchman's hut. Same routine on 30th March, except his hut got a direct hit. RIP Grandad George, but at least he died with a smile on his face after his last visit to the Railway. [Post edited 16 Jan 18:40]
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Reply | Identity Crisis
at 22:14 13 Jan 2025
Stick with your original. I haven't lived in Pinner for 15 years. |
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Reply | Good pubs In Leicester
at 17:40 8 Jan 2025
Just round the corner from Uni, so it was one of my locals back then. I was there last March, still decent with a good range of Everard's beers. |
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Reply | Good pubs In Leicester
at 14:06 8 Jan 2025
I was at Uni in Leicester, but left in 1973. Been back for visits a lot since, so I can say there are good boozers in the City Centre, but I have no idea about fooball policy. Opposite the station is The Hind, further up London Road The Marquis Wellington. In Granby Street is The Barley Mow, Charles Street has The Ale Wagon. There are two Spoons, The Corn Exchange in Market Place and The Highcross. Plenty of others dotted around that area. |
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