The Butcher, as an ex butcher it was a good watch, breaking down a hind quarter and producing quality cuts, good times and craic.

I worked as a butchers boy from 13 to leaving school. I learned a lot and loved it. One of the main things I learned was that there is nothing better than making sausages for getting ingrained dirt off you hands!

Did you have the Union Jack tied around your waist , the so called Butchers Apron

Can anyone remember when white butchers coats where a fashion accessory on match days , early seventies was a mad time, orange overalls, joiners bibs and even kilts where noticable, usually with Dr.Martin high tops.
I had a couple of mates who worked at one of the many butchers then in Middle St. Blackhall. They were both nutty as fruit cakes tbh. One morning the Manager of the shop popped out so they started larking about. One of them was making the shops own dogfood that morning, they took a couple of those green plastic window tray surrounds and put them through the mincer.
A few weeks later an irate woman customer came into the shop with a bag of these green plastic lumps her dog had had removed from its stomach by a vet due to illness (at great expense), demanding to know what they were, the manager had summoned one of them to the front desk to explain, 'herbs' came the reply.....he was promptly sacked.

Yep , there used to be a few lads walked around with them on at Newcastle games , they called themselves the surgical men , I never ever saw the trolley they were said to wheel around with them though. The kilts I think were more late seventies , the Mags having a lot of Celtic support whereas Sunderland seemed to be more Rangers.

A few of my mates ended up in butchers shops , the profession did seem to attract lads who were a little radged . Butchers certainly took full advantage of the Youth Opportunities schemes of the early 80s.

Aye the butchers coat was more likely to been seen on the backs of a few Darlo Mags .Donkey jackets and Crombies were also popular at the time. I remember a few Bradford city turning up with the Clockwork Orange look, what a sight that was.

Remember around 15 big Stockport lads coming into the Rink End in late 70s , night match anarl , all wearing Sheepkin coats. Portsmouth first game of season 1979/80 , a lot wearing these green bomber jackets , what later became known as the Flying Jacket. We always seemed a couple of years behind fashion wise in those days. By the time us in the NE caught up , they had moved onto something else. Apparently it was the cockneys who first wore Donkey Jackets to games , in the late 60s/early 70s

[quote="horden"] . We always seemed a couple of years behind fashion wise in those days. By the time us in the NE caught up , they had moved onto something else.
the swinging 60,s has still not reached places east and north of manchester. workington and whitehaven have not even heard of it.

I remember watching national news in London back in the early 80’s and there was a big story about Police surveillance cameras being found in the back bar of the Grange. The story apart, the main comments from others in the room was about why all the people interviewed dressed like it was still the early 70’s.

They offered a decent cushion if you were put on your backside..On the downside they always stank of smoke after a late 70's pub crawl.

Almost ruined mine after a game at Sheff U in 1981 , having slept in a field next to Wentworth Services on the A1 . I had only had it a couple of weeks as well, from Binns , cost a fortune , about 5 times what I was earning a week , mad now when I think back to it. Still I was only 17 at the time.

On the bright side you could always sell a car wearing that.

dry cleaners ruined mine. left school in 1964 and worked at my local brickworks for 10 weeks till i started my proper job. mine cost nearly 40 quid which i saved from that job. went up to the vic for some random game early 65 and my girl friend at the time borrowed it because it was freezing. she fell over coming out of the ground and it needed cleaning. ended up a mushroom colour and not dark brown when i got it back. re dyed it but was never the same.

Found an Accrington brick once on Blackhall beach , supposed to have been one of the finest bricks known to man the Accrington brick, must of used it in Blackhall pit , where it was then washed out with the waste into the sea and washed back up onto the beach. It was still in my dads garden when I sold his house a couple of years ago.

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Found an Accrington brick once on Blackhall beach , supposed to have been one of the finest bricks known to man the Accrington brick,
the brickworks or one of em used to be behind the crown ground. was a railway branch to the main line from there passing the cricket ground. track bed still there.