Question One for the Oldies in Shrimperzone

[RobM]

And a brass band at half time! Hedgehog or chipmunk crisps.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

(Hard) cushions for 3d in the East Stand.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

How the crowd used to love to encourage the drum major to hurl his baton high in the air and fail to
catch it on the way down. Cue for mass hystercs.

 

[RobM]

To many diddlys and not enough dahs if you ask me .

I won't ask then :winking:

The sweet trolley at half time. remember that?

 

[Firestorm]

"Programmes and Handbook"

 

[Gt Yarmouth Shrimper]

The old man with the flat cap who (in the mid 70's) walked round the pitch edge yelling 'programme, programme'.

 

[McNasty]

The old man with the flat cap who (in the mid 70's) walked round the pitch edge yelling 'programme, programme'.

If it was the old boy who wore his SUFC hat and also his WHU cap when their half time score came through, he was called Horace Harris.

 

[Rover John]

Still got my league ladders , tried to make my own new additions over the years, but got harder as so many teams went up and down. Even tried repairing some of my early Subbuteo men, top scorers with no heads and others that lost half a body in what must have been a terrible accident, or goalkeepers with naff bent wires and no arms!! Somehow as if by magic Southend still always beat Man U or Benfica when I played on my own or invited younger neighbours round for a thrashing

Dont they put you on a register for that these days.

 

[OldBlueLady]

I won't ask then :winking:

The sweet trolley at half time. remember that?

Sweet trolley? I carried the sweet trays round covering for a friend every now and then in the 70s!

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

Between '62 and '65 I was a student at the wonderful prefabricated building in Dowsett Avenue, that housed Southend Art School. During that time I attended evening classes and some, unfortunately, clashed with the Blues games. It was, however, possible to run down to Roots Hall at the end of the course and they used to open the large gates to the South (north) banks, about ten minutes before the end. I distinctly remember arriving like that one evening for a game against Norwich City and had to squeeze in the top corner of a packed South stand.
Wonderful story...............unfortunately, I've just checked and it doesn't add up! :stunned: My memory is obviously playing tricks on me because the last time we played Norwich City, before the nineties, was 1659-60 and that's pre-art school days. I'm SURE I only saw the last ten minutes, I'm pretty sure it was Norwich City.....the 5-2 win in '57-'58 rings a bell? Was it a night match or was it mid-winter and consequently dark at 4.30???? Can anyone help me out?..........a rather confused bear.

 

[tallboyblue]

And big gates at reserve games when Arsenal and Spurs were in town.

 

[tallboyblue]

And big gates at reserve games when Arsenal and Spurs were in town.

I should have said that those matches were played at Grainger road stadium.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Wonderful story...............unfortunately, I've just checked and it doesn't add up! :stunned: My memory is obviously playing tricks on me because the last time we played Norwich City, before the nineties, was 1659-60 and that's pre-art school days. I'm SURE I only saw the last ten minutes, I'm pretty sure it was Norwich City.....the 5-2 win in '57-'58 rings a bell? Was it a night match or was it mid-winter and consequently dark at 4.30???? Can anyone help me out?..........a rather confused bear.

I'd have thought that was seriously pre-anything or anyone on here Yogi! :stunned:

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

I'd have thought that was seriously pre-anything or anyone on here Yogi! :stunned:

Surely not for Cricko? :winking:

 

[B.B.The Legend Lives On.]

Between '62 and '65 I was a student at the wonderful prefabricated building in Dowsett Avenue, that housed Southend Art School. During that time I attended evening classes and some, unfortunately, clashed with the Blues games. It was, however, possible to run down to Roots Hall at the end of the course and they used to open the large gates to the South (north) banks, about ten minutes before the end. I distinctly remember arriving like that one evening for a game against Norwich City and had to squeeze in the top corner of a packed South stand.
Wonderful story...............unfortunately, I've just checked and it doesn't add up! :stunned: My memory is obviously playing tricks on me because the last time we played Norwich City, before the nineties, was 1659-60 and that's pre-art school days. I'm SURE I only saw the last ten minutes, I'm pretty sure it was Norwich City.....the 5-2 win in '57-'58 rings a bell? Was it a night match or was it mid-winter and consequently dark at 4.30???? Can anyone help me out?..........a rather confused bear.

The Norwich match was the first home match in 1957-58 winning 5-2 it was played on a Wednesday night, we had played at Exeter on the previous Saturday our first match of the season winning 5-0, after the Norwich match we beat Q.P.R. by 6-0 so we started the season played 3 won 3 scored 16-2. Going back to your evening class between 62-65 we did however play Norwich on 16th.August 1965(Monday night) in a friendly score I think it was 2-2 but not 100% sure.

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

The Norwich match was the first home match in 1957-58 winning 5-2 it was played on a Wednesday night, we had played at Exeter on the previous Saturday our first match of the season winning 5-0, after the Norwich match we beat Q.P.R. by 6-0 so we started the season played 3 won 3 scored 16-2. Going back to your evening class between 62-65 we did however play Norwich on 16th.August 1965(Monday night) in a friendly score I think it was 2-2 but not 100% sure.

Thanks very much for that.........senility is still a little way away! :smile: I reckon it was 5-2 match I saw the end of and it fits in with a night game. The friendly was probably after I had left college and anyway, wasn't in term time. Nor can I believe that there would have been a crowded stadium (15000?) for a friendly match. The only thing that remains a mystery, is why, at eleven years of age and living in Thorpe Bay at the time, would I have turned up for the end of an evening match???..........strange! Perhaps it was in 1965 after all! God knows

 

[LCBB72]

Could write reams on this but agree John Webster was a star. The steam radio plus the late paper were essential. Living in Rayleigh I remember cycling to newsagent at end of The Chase to get evening paper weekdays to see if we had made any signings. About three times a year my trip was rewarded. Saw Kevin Baron on the 251 bus in Rayleigh.
Unimaginable to see a player on a bus now.

I bunked of school one afternoon in 1969 with 2 friends as we walked past a bus stop just round the corner to the Belfairs School a bus pulled up and our geography teacher and Southend goalkeeper Trevor Roberts got off he looked at us but he never reported us Top Man was Trevor .

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

And big gates at reserve games when Arsenal and Spurs were in town.

I used to go to some of the Reserve games, and one i remember was against QPR in 1969 (i think). Unbeknown to me, it was Rodney Marsh's comeback game after a lengthy injury spell.
There was a crowd of over 2,000, 2/3rds of them Rangers fans who had come to see their 'idol' on his return. All game the chant of 'Roddd-neeee' sounded from the North Bank. Needless to say, he scored and they won 1-0.

 

[buffalowolf]

And the raffle wher they walked around just after half time holding a board with the winning number on
.I never ever won but always bought a ticket.

 

[RobM]

You gotta be in it to.....ah..