if you were there contact mark.simpson@hartlepoolunited.co.uk

if you were there i have a photo but dont want to put it on here due to copyright or if you know who was there get them to speak to mark either on the phone at the club or at the above email address

1968!!!

Over to you Mr Head and Gremmlin

Three of my Dad's siblings packed into a telephone box round the corner from the house my Dad grew up in as a kid in Oxford on the night of Swansea and phoned the club for the result.#

As soon as the person on the phone at Pools told them the score and they knew we were promoted, there were scenes of wild, joyous celebration afterwards !

But as for the claim that a Sengelow might be there, unless it was a member of my distant cousin's branch of the family that did go - I don't know who it could be.

I know one of them Mr Elvis, you know Norman from the cricket club? The ex scorer? He was at Swansea that night, he might not be exactly what Mark Simpson is looking for though

That's my uncle, PJ.

Really!?

That would explain a lot, are you sure!!!?

Yeah, if we're talking about Norman Sengelow from 5 Elwick Road, because he is my Dad Terry's brother. He's also Mr Tax Payer's uncle.

No I'm not POK false alarm.

It's Maylon, or Malyon. So certainly no uncle of POK, as I say though it would have explained a lot!

excellent - cheers chaps

i can email richard and ask him

Elvis, you say a Sengelow might have gone that night, but it might not have been a member of my Dad's branch of the family - it could well be from the branch of the family that we know still live in Hartlepool - I'll see if I can ask my Uncle, who is the oldest surviving meber of our branch of the family.

Do you remember the name of the Sengelow, Elvis ?

Howay Phil - below the belt that one !! - and i had seperate photos!! anyway just spoke to one of the 16 people who went and him and his mate are still kicking around.

I don't know anyone who was there. We camped outside the Mail office to await the news of our FIRST EVER PROMOTION!!!!
FOOKIN GERRRIN, Pools!!!

Gus, Gus, Gus, Gus, Gus the Bus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was'nt there myself but i know the names of three lads who were, Peter Fletcher, Tony Martin, and Ray Shackleton, i see Tony at home games occassionally, but i don't know the whereabouts of the other two.

I worked with a lad years ago called Vic Windsor he went he still had the programme.

I didn't go but I have the programme. Best 99p I ever spent on e-bay

i can not believe Norman is POK's uncle !
everytime i'm at the cricket club norman is always there

Well actually I do have an uncle called Norman, but actually I don't think the Norman who you've been talking about that went Swansea isn't the same as my Uncle Norman.

Elvis tells me that he believes a Sengelow who travelled from Oxford could well have been one of the 16 that went to Sweetcorn that day and I thought one of them could have been one of my uncles, who lived in Oxford in 1968.

As I say, we still know that there is a branch of the Sengelow family still living in Hartlepool, we haven't been able to talk to them but there are some other Sengelows on Facebook.

Once Elvis gets back to me after looking at his old programmes to re-jog his memory, I'll see what I can find out fromthe other barnch of the family maybe.