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Post by jakeyboi on Jun 30, 2019 16:02:41 GMT
Well I for one was gutted when London Road closed I live right opposite the ground in Buckland Road, used to walk out of the house with my old Dad at about 2.55 an still be in the ground before kick off.
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Post by yorkshirestone on Jul 12, 2019 11:47:27 GMT
If there is one thing you can say about my existence it is not sheltered. I may not have attended school on a regular basis,much preferred the pub or fishing,but I did learn how to spell and in my day it was JUKE BOX not a duke box which is something Prince Phillip will be in soon . The JUKE BOX at the London road ground cellar bar was brilliant for the time and you are right in one aspect as I used to play 'playground twist' by Siouxsie and the Banshees over and over again. As for beer mats ,well I used to collect them years ago but had to relinquish the collection through lack of storage space. There was a bar at the Athletic Ground??? A few of us used to nip into the downstairs bar at the ground at full time on Saturdays for a swift half and to see the BBC Grandstand teleprinter (back in the days when it really was a teleprinter) and cheer when our result appeared. Simpler times.
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Post by jdl on Jul 12, 2019 21:05:56 GMT
There was a bar at the Athletic Ground??? A few of us used to nip into the downstairs bar at the ground at full time on Saturdays for a swift half and to see the BBC Grandstand teleprinter (back in the days when it really was a teleprinter) and cheer when our result appeared. Simpler times. Anyone else used to make sure they just happened to be outside the telly rental shop coming up to 5 of a Saturday shopping trip? It was difficult enough to time it so that I got the West Ham result/table, but nearly impossible to just happen to be there for the Conference results... Telly rental shops? Ask Old Boy.
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Post by Better things to do in life on Jul 12, 2019 21:18:53 GMT
A few of us used to nip into the downstairs bar at the ground at full time on Saturdays for a swift half and to see the BBC Grandstand teleprinter (back in the days when it really was a teleprinter) and cheer when our result appeared. Simpler times. Anyone else used to make sure they just happened to be outside the telly rental shop coming up to 5 of a Saturday shopping trip? It was difficult enough to time it so that I got the West Ham result/table, but nearly impossible to just happen to be there for the Conference results... Telly rental shops? Ask Old Boy. Redifusion. Box on the wall to switch between three black and white stations. Tv starting at 1pm and shutting down before midnight. Happy days indeed.
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Post by rollingstone on Sept 22, 2019 13:03:56 GMT
Anyone else used to make sure they just happened to be outside the telly rental shop coming up to 5 of a Saturday shopping trip? It was difficult enough to time it so that I got the West Ham result/table, but nearly impossible to just happen to be there for the Conference results... Telly rental shops? Ask Old Boy. Redifusion. Box on the wall to switch between three black and white stations. Tv starting at 1pm and shutting down before midnight. Happy days indeed. Yes! You could get bbc1, bbc2, Southern and Thames, then suddenly thames got replaced by channel four! I was seven at the time luckily my dad Could still get thames, albeit a bit fuzzy, on his black and white portae telly upstairs
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Post by jdl on Sept 22, 2019 16:19:32 GMT
We moved down here just before TVS started up. The bastards then switched the Bluebell Hill transmitter from Thames to bloody TVS - just after London Weekend had started their Big Match - one live London game a week. West Ham on the telly and I couldn't watch it!!
I bought the largest TV arial I could find - and, after dicing with death on the roof, I managed to get a watchable picture from Crystal Palace.
Then, next season, bloody LWT canceled the Big Match! Bastards.
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Post by yorkshirestone on Oct 4, 2019 12:02:32 GMT
We moved down here just before TVS started up. The bastards then switched the Bluebell Hill transmitter from Thames to bloody TVS - just after London Weekend had started their Big Match - one live London game a week. West Ham on the telly and I couldn't watch it!! I bought the largest TV arial I could find - and, after dicing with death on the roof, I managed to get a watchable picture from Crystal Palace. Then, next season, bloody LWT canceled the Big Match! Bastards. Without an emu presumably? (Too soon?) Going off topic but these mentions of days of old with the tv, if you remember signals regularly dropping out due to "atmospherics" I read a blog a few years ago and apparently a lot of it was the RAF using electronic countermeasures to upset visiting Russian aircraft.
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Post by bermudastone on Oct 4, 2019 21:35:33 GMT
Well I for one was gutted when London Road closed I live right opposite the ground in Buckland Road, used to walk out of the house with my old Dad at about 2.55 an still be in the ground before kick off. Just a walk down the road from Poplar Grove for me - M an D took us to away games.
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Post by Bernie on Feb 1, 2021 16:45:04 GMT
Just been looking at old aerial pictures of the old ground and it’s massive. Two or three times the size of Whatman Way. Why didn’t we just maximise the site, getting a developer to build a new smaller ground in exchange for the remaining land? Or had the Mormons already bought their site previously?
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Post by jdl on Feb 1, 2021 17:20:12 GMT
Just been looking at old aerial pictures of the old ground and it’s massive. Two or three times the size of Whatman Way. Why didn’t we just maximise the site, getting a developer to build a new smaller ground in exchange for the remaining land? Or had the Mormons already bought their site ? Thompson had already decided that LR "wasn't suitable" for FL football (he never specified exactly why). Maybe it was simply a financial decision - the only way to generate the seed capital he needed for a new, up-to-date ground? Personally, I think it was more down to JT's vision of what he wanted to do with the club, and LR just didn't fit in with that. He was ahead of his time, with the hotel + ground idea (businesses to support the football). So, if it had worked, we might be praising him as, not only the man who got us into the league and created the pyramid, but also the pioneer of the modern way of developing football clubs/grounds. Instead of the egotistical changer who destroyed our club pursuing his own fantasies. In truth, he was probably a big of both but it just goes to show how much a bit of luck goes in influencing how we remember someone.
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