Sounds like your describing Feethams.

6,000 odd crowds on New Years Day. I reckon we would have achieved that today if not for the very stupid ticket only shite at Pools. Last home game a old woman ordered a tea at half time and was unable to pay by cash...What a massive own goal this no cash crap is by Raj must be costing him tens of thousands of pounds over the season. Why do they not open one cash turn style and one cash food n drink unit.

I wouldn't even know how to get a ticket for Pools these days.

cannot do stuff like that. you,ll be accused of talking common sense. we are not unique doing this and it would be fine if they sold out of all food and drink and we had a full house every game . fans with cash only could ask another to pay for them and give em the cash. however why should they as it smacks of being a kid under 16 asking an adult to take em in if it was a A certificate film. mind you don,t pools do that with an under 14. ludicrous.

Yes true as always Accy.

Coalmen delivering door to door with blackened faces.

they would have to clean their faces now between deliveries to stop them being accused of being racist.

Boys from the blackstuff.

[quote="Leggie43"]Coalmen delivering door to door with blackened faces. [/quoute]
Wonder if there’s a coal man’s website and message board…….’One up the Flue’ sounds a fitting title…any better ideas…?

Sounds more like a porn site. I will ask Mutters what he thinks.

True…..that coal dust gets everywhere…if the action gets too hot. the coal dust could explode……would using a Davey Lamp constitute safe sex

I will again have to refer that question to Mutters.

Kelloggs Cornflakes boxes with " free tokens you cut from the box and exchanged for a round-trip train journey " Me and my mate went all over the country including Pools away without paying 1p to British Rail. Great offer great times ...who said you cant get anything for nothing.

there was a rumour around in the game that pools actually did that themselves in the 80,s. it came from a chairman of a 4th division club via the players and not a joke. do not know if there was any truth in this.

That brings back memories Accy. I also heard that back in the day around 1976 time.

imagine it happening today with raj picking the side depending on the number of tokens players bring in and no contract extensions for porrage eaters.

Playing marbles in the gutter on the way to School and back. Very cheap but great fun and lots of bragging rights. We never needed expensive computers and mobile phones to entertain ourselves. Bloody hell we used to make boagies from prams bottoms and go down the most dangerous hills for fun. Went home with grazed knees and elbows on a good day and smashed up faces on a bad day. Never put us off like we were all hard as fook from 5 yrs upwards. I cannot remember many if any bored or miserable kids back then. We lived life the hard but the best way and I still have great memories of those innocent wonderful days. We could do anything we put our minds to nothing fazed us totally focused and unstoppable.

there was many bored and miserable kids then more than now. what caused it was called a school and the best times of our lives were holidays and when the bell went to go home even on the darkest and most miserable day of winter.

Yes bullshit school ( brain wash dogshit ) did spoil our fun like Accy.

Remember getting a plastic a free plastic soldier in Kellog’s cornflakes and the old girl saying we couldn’t have it till it fell out so no rummaging…it was like Russian Roulette with cornflakes waiting for your portion to be the lucky winner.

think it was packets of tea that had cards in them like british birds you collected and could buy an album to put them in. we all ended up in the same boat with 2 missing that no other ever got.

Not sure any card collection offers got to completion. I used to buy the football player albums book to put those packs of cards in you bought. It always got to the stage of getting doublers and waisting even more pocket money.

Docker 1950s it's the 3rd picture down.

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there was many bored and miserable kids then more than now. what caused it was called a school and the best times of our lives were holidays and when the bell went to go home even on the darkest and most miserable day of winter.[/quote]


Nothing changed as far as I'm concerned- the best times of my life are when I'm not at school!

I loved School....best years of my life.

can see you now with your cap straight on your head with one of those satchels you carried across your back like all the swots seemed to have.

I was the exact opposite.

I think my two years at the Art College, were my best. Still living at home, no bills, no responsibility going to Pools- every home and most away.
We didn't have the best team in those days - (when Houchen was manager) under HH but they put a shift in. We did quite well up until he hung his boots up, and then it fell apart.

Also frequenting the many ale houses in and around Church Street. Used to love a couple of pints of Trophy and games of Pool in the Clarendon on a Wednesday lunchtime - halcyon days!

Only because you were at St Trinians.

Art college….my target…the old feller said get an A in your Art O levels and you can stop on …so I did get an A……….happy days…. then the old feller said bugger off you need a proper job ….. well you can’t win em all

Now that's a school I would definitely have enjoyed. I reckon I would certainly have been " head " boy.

with snowy,s art knowledge organising the live posing sessions and skippy,s new hockey formation where those lasses became beatable.

Television without remote controls.

How many on here can actually remember old money. I loved the 10 bob note ( 50p) and the half crowns ( 25p ) and the tanner ( 6p ). I hated the penny and half penny all they did was discolour your sweaty hands and pull your trousers down

I liked the farthing with the Wren on the reverse.

I forgot about the farthing it is probably the best of all. I have collected coins / notes from around the world for many years now. I like the Indian coins and some South American ones. One of my favorite coins is pesetas from 1868 to 1982. These all had two dates one of the front and one on the back. The date in a star is the actual date and the other is the authorisation date. A hell of a lot of foreign notes actually look like monopoly money rather than actual currency.

You've clearly got a lot of COIN Leggie!

Don't suppose you fancy offering Raj a couple of million (LIRA) to buy Pools?

I would happily drop a large sack of coins on his head.

been there, done it and for only a few times in my life i made a profit out of dong it. only thing left is a full set of coins from the boar republics with paul kruger on them. got to leave my lad something except debt.

Be interesting to do pen pictures on here of people you’ve never seen based on there person on here. Hmmm.

Well the Accy one is easy he used to be a major actor in " Last of the summer wine " he played Foggy.