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My dear old Uncle Freddie Haddington passed yesterday aged 81 from a stroke. Lovely, warm-hearted, honest and fiercely loyal bloke, who typified Sheffield's wonderful spirit. My nascent Blades years were formed by him because when my dad left the navy moved in with the Haddington dynasty up at Crookes in the fifties after marrying my already pregnant mum, it was Fred who took him under his wing and thence to Beautiful Downtown Bramall Lane thereby anointing him as a Blade and ensconcing the creed into the pommpey family. My late sixties and then seventies experience of standing on the BLLT looking through the white railings with them two stood somewhere behind made me the Unitedite I am today. He was a principled man right to the end having spent his years digging out the black stuff from planet earth and being the blessed Mr Scargill's lieutenant, confident and minder during the heady years industrial crisis and decline of the industry. His house up at Longley still had artefacts of his time served adorning his wall and his staunch working class socialism was stamped through him like a stick of rock, and the words 'Tories' and 'Thatcher' was officially banned in his presence.

May his blessed Blade soul rest in peace.

pommpey
 

pommpey said:
My dear old Uncle Freddie Haddington passed yesterday aged 81 from a stroke. Lovely, warm-hearted, honest and fiercely loyal bloke, who typified Sheffield's wonderful spirit. My nascent Blades years were formed by him because when my dad left the navy moved in with the Haddington dynasty up at Crookes in the fifties after marrying my already pregnant mum, it was Fred who took him under his wing and thence to Beautiful Downtown Bramall Lane thereby anointing him as a Blade and ensconcing the creed into the pommpey family. My late sixties and then seventies experience of standing on the BLLT looking through the white railings with them two stood somewhere behind made me the Unitedite I am today. He was a principled man right to the end having spent his years digging out the black stuff from planet earth and being the blessed Mr Scargill's lieutenant, confident and minder during the heady years industrial crisis and decline of the industry. His house up at Longley still had artefacts of his time served adorning his wall and his staunch working class socialism was stamped through him like a stick of rock, and the words 'Tories' and 'Thatcher' was officially banned in his presence.

May his blessed Blade soul rest in peace.

pommpey
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There's a resonance to my Bladedom there.

RIP Freddie.
 
pommpey said:
My dear old Uncle Freddie Haddington passed yesterday aged 81 from a stroke. Lovely, warm-hearted, honest and fiercely loyal bloke, who typified Sheffield's wonderful spirit. My nascent Blades years were formed by him because when my dad left the navy moved in with the Haddington dynasty up at Crookes in the fifties after marrying my already pregnant mum, it was Fred who took him under his wing and thence to Beautiful Downtown Bramall Lane thereby anointing him as a Blade and ensconcing the creed into the pommpey family. My late sixties and then seventies experience of standing on the BLLT looking through the white railings with them two stood somewhere behind made me the Unitedite I am today. He was a principled man right to the end having spent his years digging out the black stuff from planet earth and being the blessed Mr Scargill's lieutenant, confident and minder during the heady years industrial crisis and decline of the industry. His house up at Longley still had artefacts of his time served adorning his wall and his staunch working class socialism was stamped through him like a stick of rock, and the words 'Tories' and 'Thatcher' was officially banned in his presence.

May his blessed Blade soul rest in peace.

pommpey
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Condolences to you and yours, Pommpey. And I'm sure he'd be proud of that beautifully expressed eulogy. RIP Freddie.
 
Condolences to you and yours Pommpey.
RIP Freddie Blade in the blades bar amongst the Stars.
 
pommpey said:
My dear old Uncle Freddie Haddington passed yesterday aged 81 from a stroke. Lovely, warm-hearted, honest and fiercely loyal bloke, who typified Sheffield's wonderful spirit. My nascent Blades years were formed by him because when my dad left the navy moved in with the Haddington dynasty up at Crookes in the fifties after marrying my already pregnant mum, it was Fred who took him under his wing and thence to Beautiful Downtown Bramall Lane thereby anointing him as a Blade and ensconcing the creed into the pommpey family. My late sixties and then seventies experience of standing on the BLLT looking through the white railings with them two stood somewhere behind made me the Unitedite I am today. He was a principled man right to the end having spent his years digging out the black stuff from planet earth and being the blessed Mr Scargill's lieutenant, confident and minder during the heady years industrial crisis and decline of the industry. His house up at Longley still had artefacts of his time served adorning his wall and his staunch working class socialism was stamped through him like a stick of rock, and the words 'Tories' and 'Thatcher' was officially banned in his presence.

May his blessed Blade soul rest in peace.

pommpey
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Sorry for your loss Pommps.

I've always enjoyed the company of old guys and gals who have endured bitter industrial struggles, yet retain that firebrand glint in their eye.

RIP Fred.
 
Paisley Blade said:
Sorry for your loss Pommps.

I've always enjoyed the company of old guys and gals who have endured bitter industrial struggles, yet retain that firebrand glint in their eye.

RIP Fred.
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He was great. Although me and he would have never agreed politically, his tales of derring do and the boys in blue during the miner's strike are of legend. He's spent quite a bit of time being hauled away in vans and given a kicking by our law enforcers both during that period and at Grunwick as a flying picket and TU agitator. He was also at Orgreave that horrible day and ended up being beaten up and nicked.

I may not have agreed with him politically and may be cool (not cold) on socialism and unionism but my admiration for his principles remains unbending. People like him who fought for what they believed in are human heroes.

When I last saw him a few years ago, he had a scuttle by his fire filled with coal. I asked him for a piece which I still have at home as a small tribute.

pommpey
 
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pommpey said:
My dear old Uncle Freddie Haddington passed yesterday aged 81 from a stroke. Lovely, warm-hearted, honest and fiercely loyal bloke, who typified Sheffield's wonderful spirit. My nascent Blades years were formed by him because when my dad left the navy moved in with the Haddington dynasty up at Crookes in the fifties after marrying my already pregnant mum, it was Fred who took him under his wing and thence to Beautiful Downtown Bramall Lane thereby anointing him as a Blade and ensconcing the creed into the pommpey family. My late sixties and then seventies experience of standing on the BLLT looking through the white railings with them two stood somewhere behind made me the Unitedite I am today. He was a principled man right to the end having spent his years digging out the black stuff from planet earth and being the blessed Mr Scargill's lieutenant, confident and minder during the heady years industrial crisis and decline of the industry. His house up at Longley still had artefacts of his time served adorning his wall and his staunch working class socialism was stamped through him like a stick of rock, and the words 'Tories' and 'Thatcher' was officially banned in his presence.

May his blessed Blade soul rest in peace.

pommpey
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Hold on to those wonderful memories, they will help fill the void of his passing.
 

Sorry to hear that, pommpey.

I think memories of long-gone time with people at football matches are as strong as anything.
 

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