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Post by thfc67 on Mar 19, 2020 14:34:56 GMT
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Post by kustokie on Mar 19, 2020 14:53:11 GMT
Great article. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by somersetstokie on Mar 19, 2020 19:01:36 GMT
I expect that this season won't get finalised until July and by then the transfer window will be open. The Club will clearly fail to learn from history, and on the morning we play Birmingham they will sell Campbell.
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Post by spiderpuss on Mar 20, 2020 21:37:05 GMT
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Post by drfootball on Mar 22, 2020 12:10:44 GMT
Climate change has sorted that out 😉☺ |
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Post by slicko on Mar 23, 2020 9:17:24 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 10:07:20 GMT
I'd say one other occurrence in the last 73 years is reasonable unusual.
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Post by slicko on Mar 23, 2020 10:48:26 GMT
I'd say one other occurrence in the last 73 years is reasonable unusual. You were born once, by the sound of your confrontational reply, probably about 73 years ago. Is your birth unusual? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2020 11:05:15 GMT
I'd say one other occurrence in the last 73 years is reasonable unusual. You were born once, by the sound of your confrontational reply, probably about 73 years ago. Is your birth unusual? Incredibly, I'm as unique as they come. |
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Post by mrcoke on Mar 23, 2020 12:05:37 GMT
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Post by skemstokie on Mar 23, 2020 16:37:15 GMT
I remember going to Malpas school in 1963 climbing over snowdrifts in what we called Greenway lane on arrival at school we were given cold milk no wonder i hate the stuff to this day  |
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Post by OldStokie on Mar 23, 2020 19:17:50 GMT
1947/48 was worse than '63. There were drifts in the side streets twenty feet deep round here. Great fun when you were a kid though. My old dad made a tunnel through the snow so we could get into the house. And we went to school on sledges. '63 I remember well because it was colder. I was driving a JCB at the time, clearing snow up The Roaches. Two drivers to each machine because being out in it (not closed cabs in those days) for more than 20 minutes brought on hypothermia. I recall getting so far along one of the sideroads up there then knocking off for the night. When we got back the next day we couldn't see the machine because the drifts had buried it. Good money though.  OS. |
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Post by leicspotter on Mar 23, 2020 19:22:50 GMT
1947/48 was worse than '63. There were drifts in the side streets twenty feet deep round here. Great fun when you were a kid though. My old dad made a tunnel through the snow so we could get into the house. And we went to school on sledges. '63 I remember well because it was colder. I was driving a JCB at the time, clearing snow up The Roaches. Two drivers to each machine because being out in it (not closed cabs in those days) for more than 20 minutes brought on hypothermia. I recall getting so far along one of the sideroads up there then knocking off for the night. When we got back the next day we couldn't see the machine because the drifts had buried it. Good money though. OS. Maybe it was you who cleared the road at the end of our lane so we could get the milk out? In '63 I was living at Easing Farm, Easing Lane, outside Leek. The lane went up to the top of Morridge, so if you were clearing that it would have felt like some sort of Alpine bobsleigh ride  Fair play to you...you earned that "good money" |
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Post by thfc67 on Mar 24, 2020 13:47:48 GMT
I came to London, with my family, from Ireland in October 1962. I was 7 year's old. I don't have a lot of memories of the time, but like you we went to school every day (in short trousers!). My dad who worked on the buildings was laid off as all the building sites were shut down. Hundreds, if not thousands like him, were out of work with no pay. My mum worked in a local bakers so there was a little money coming in, but it got to the stage when the money wasn't going to be enough to keep us and pay the rent in our 2 roomed flat (four of us including my younger sister). Then out of the blue, my mum received a tax rebate, totally unexpected. It weren't a great amount, but enough to tide us over until dad managed to find work. |
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Post by OldStokie on Mar 24, 2020 22:17:41 GMT
1947/48 was worse than '63. There were drifts in the side streets twenty feet deep round here. Great fun when you were a kid though. My old dad made a tunnel through the snow so we could get into the house. And we went to school on sledges. '63 I remember well because it was colder. I was driving a JCB at the time, clearing snow up The Roaches. Two drivers to each machine because being out in it (not closed cabs in those days) for more than 20 minutes brought on hypothermia. I recall getting so far along one of the sideroads up there then knocking off for the night. When we got back the next day we couldn't see the machine because the drifts had buried it. Good money though. OS. Maybe it was you who cleared the road at the end of our lane so we could get the milk out? In '63 I was living at Easing Farm, Easing Lane, outside Leek. The lane went up to the top of Morridge, so if you were clearing that it would have felt like some sort of Alpine bobsleigh ride Fair play to you...you earned that "good money" That wouldn't have been me LP. We were up by Flash. There was a sort of cafe on the right hand side of the A53 where we were. We went in there to warm up and have a cuppa. I also spent six months working on the extension of Tittesworth Resevoir in '63. I was driving a Drott for G. Percy Trentham at the time. Good money there too. Young and single... plenty of brass in me back pocket, and a lovely car to draw the birds. Best time of me life. Lovely car, exactly like this...  OS. |
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Post by wizardofdribble on Mar 24, 2020 22:30:56 GMT
I can remember going to Rotherham on Boxing Day 1962 and Stoke winning 2-1 on a concrete surface of a pitch, think it was March before they played again !!
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Mar 25, 2020 8:43:51 GMT
Maybe it was you who cleared the road at the end of our lane so we could get the milk out? In '63 I was living at Easing Farm, Easing Lane, outside Leek. The lane went up to the top of Morridge, so if you were clearing that it would have felt like some sort of Alpine bobsleigh ride Fair play to you...you earned that "good money" That wouldn't have been me LP. We were up by Flash. There was a sort of cafe on the right hand side of the A53 where we were. We went in there to warm up and have a cuppa. I also spent six months working on the extension of Tittesworth Resevoir in '63. I was driving a Drott for G. Percy Trentham at the time. Good money there too. Young and single... plenty of brass in me back pocket, and a lovely car to draw the birds. Best time of me life. Lovely car, exactly like this... OS. No coke brazziers? You do disappoint! |
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Post by leicspotter on Mar 25, 2020 9:13:17 GMT
Maybe it was you who cleared the road at the end of our lane so we could get the milk out? In '63 I was living at Easing Farm, Easing Lane, outside Leek. The lane went up to the top of Morridge, so if you were clearing that it would have felt like some sort of Alpine bobsleigh ride Fair play to you...you earned that "good money" That wouldn't have been me LP. We were up by Flash. There was a sort of cafe on the right hand side of the A53 where we were. We went in there to warm up and have a cuppa. I also spent six months working on the extension of Tittesworth Resevoir in '63. I was driving a Drott for G. Percy Trentham at the time. Good money there too. Young and single... plenty of brass in me back pocket, and a lovely car to draw the birds. Best time of me life. Lovely car, exactly like this... OS. Nice wheels  I bet no girl in Leek was safe |
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Post by somersetstokie on Mar 26, 2020 14:54:56 GMT
1947/48 was worse than '63. There were drifts in the side streets twenty feet deep round here. Great fun when you were a kid though. My old dad made a tunnel through the snow so we could get into the house. And we went to school on sledges. '63 I remember well because it was colder. I was driving a JCB at the time, clearing snow up The Roaches. Two drivers to each machine because being out in it (not closed cabs in those days) for more than 20 minutes brought on hypothermia. I recall getting so far along one of the sideroads up there then knocking off for the night. When we got back the next day we couldn't see the machine because the drifts had buried it. Good money though. OS. Maybe it was you who cleared the road at the end of our lane so we could get the milk out? In '63 I was living at Easing Farm, Easing Lane, outside Leek. The lane went up to the top of Morridge, so if you were clearing that it would have felt like some sort of Alpine bobsleigh ride Fair play to you...you earned that "good money" I am very close to the Mendip Hills here in Somerset and spend quite a lot of time there, especially in a couple of the pubs. The locals whose "memories" go back to 1963 are always happy to tell anyone who will listen, especially tourists, about the heavy snow and big freeze of that year, and how they used to "walk to work across the telegraph poles!" |
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Post by Northy on Mar 26, 2020 15:14:20 GMT
My mum showed me a photo of me in one of those old big 4 wheeled prams, outside the house getting some 'fresh air' the snow was up past the wheels. My face looked like Alex fergusons after a bottle of whiskey |
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Post by leicspotter on Mar 26, 2020 18:44:59 GMT
Maybe it was you who cleared the road at the end of our lane so we could get the milk out? In '63 I was living at Easing Farm, Easing Lane, outside Leek. The lane went up to the top of Morridge, so if you were clearing that it would have felt like some sort of Alpine bobsleigh ride Fair play to you...you earned that "good money" I am very close to the Mendip Hills here in Somerset and spend quite a lot of time there, especially in a couple of the pubs. The locals whose "memories" go back to 1963 are always happy to tell anyone who will listen, especially tourists, about the heavy snow and big freeze of that year, and how they used to "walk to work across the telegraph poles!" My memories are a bit sketchy, I was 7, but my older brother will tell you how we had to leave the house (farmhouse) through the bedroom windows...  We had an extra 2 weeks off school too...we cleared the lane to get the milk to the main road, but that was as far as we ventured |
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