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Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen said:
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Aberfan
At 9:15am on October 21, 1966, a spoil tip collapsed onto the Welsh village,
killing 116 children & 28 adults.

One of the darkest days in Wales’ history - never forgotten.

In the dark welsh valley,
On the mountain side,
Lay the little children
Close to where they died.
Their little lives are ended
Before they reach their goal,
Tender little children
Have paid the price of coal.
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Read up about the Coal Board's abhorrent response to the tragedy. They denied any liability and wanted money out of the charitable funds raised, to stabilise and repair the tip.
 

I should coco said:
Read up about the Coal Board's abhorrent response to the tragedy. They denied any liability and wanted money out of the charitable funds raised, to stabilise and repair the tip.
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I did read all about it a couple of years ago as I visited the memorial before going on to Chepstow races. It was a place I always wanted to pay my respects, even more so after reading about the coal board, the UK government and the Royal family. No wonder the taffs hate us English. Saddest place I'm likely to visit.
 
dn5 shaun said:
I did read all about it a couple of years ago as I visited the memorial before going on to Chepstow races. It was a place I always wanted to pay my respects, even more so after reading about the coal board, the UK government and the Royal family. No wonder the taffs hate us English. Saddest place I'm likely to visit.
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I was 8 years old when Aberfan happened, remember seeing it on tv when I came home from school 😔
 
drblade said:
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Anyone recognise where these may have originally come from?

Never seen them before. Plain glossy backs. Maybe cut from match day programmes?

UTB
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My mind's going - can't put a name to a couple of these players:
Top row L-R: ???, Nilsen, Gayle, Blake, Whitehouse, Kelly
Bottom row L-R: Rogers, Flo, Beesley?, ???, Hodges, Veart
 

BornOnShorehamStreet said:
A very early picture of the Lane.

Can you see a chubby face in the area where the centre circle would be?
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When you look at the size of the footprint we could almost have 2 stadiums.

We are still not expoliting the potential of generating more revenue from that vast amount of (almost) city centre land.
 
Ecco1889 said:
Fan zone.
Pre 1973,was this area where the cricket nets were?




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Not quite. In the photo below the fan zone is more or less the rectangular area at the bottom right of the photo (which used to be a bowling green in times past)..The nets were on the rectangular strip of land at the back of the kop
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North Shields Blade said:
Quiz question: what significant event in sporting history took place at The Bell pub in Fitzalan Square?

To assist, I’m not looking for the answer which AI provided me about the 1991 World Student Games being announced there (which I think is a load of tripe anyway).
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Thanks to everyone who took part. Amazingly, not a single correct answer. Nor a single incorrect answer. Perhaps, I should have offered a prize…

Anyway, the answer. It must be one of the greatest “sliding doors” moments in sporting history. A chance meeting occurred in The Bell in late 1918 between Arthur Wragg, a widower living with his many children in a tiny courtyard house in Solly Street, and an employee of a Newmarket training stable as a result of which Arthur’s son, Harry, left home to become an apprentice jockey despite never having sat on a horse before.

Despite an inauspicious start - Harry bluffed on his first morning that he had ridden before and was put up on a horse from which he was thrown, fracturing his skull and spending nine weeks in hospital - he became a top jockey.

By 1925, he was on a paid retainer to ride for millionaire owner, Solly Joel. He rode the winner of the Eclipse Stakes that year and won the Ebor and Doncaster Cup the following year. In 1927, he bought his first car, a brand-new Wolseley for £300 cash. In 1928, he rode the winner of the Derby and repeated the feat in 1930 for which the winning owner, the Aga Khan, gave him a gift of £5000 (equivalent to over £400,000 today) and he bought with that money one of the largest houses in Newmarket (Bedford Lodge) from Lord Beaverbrook. He traded up from the Wolseley to a Rolls-Royce.

In all, he rode eleven Classic winners. He retired in 1946, becoming a highly successful trainer. He himself trained a Derby winner (Psidium in 1961) plus four other Classic winners, the last of them in 1982, his final season.

His brothers, Sam and Arthur, both had successful careers as jockeys, Sam riding the winner of the 1940 Derby.

Harry’s son, Peter, became a top bloodstock agent. His other son, Geoff, took over the training when Harry retired and trained Teenoso to win the Derby in his first season (1983). Both sons were renowned for their integrity and decency.

A true rags-to-riches story. There should be a blue plaque on the site where The Bell stood.


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Eddiecolquhounsleg said:
Not quite. In the photo below the fan zone is more or less the rectangular area at the bottom right of the photo (which used to be a bowling green in times past)..The nets were on the rectangular strip of land at the back of the kop
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Don't forget the indoor nets, to the left and back of the pavilion, on your photo.
Built by YCCC, specifically for all weather nets in the 1950's.
 

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