RIP Blade

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Sounds like another of life's good guys has gone.
Sorry for your loss Pommpey.
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.

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RIP Freddie ⚔️ sorry for your loss 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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Really sorry to hear that Pommps.
As I think we've previously discussed I worked with and knew Fred from our coal mining days and he was a thoroughly decent and as you say, principled bloke.
Couldn't help but like Fred.
My wife went to school with his missus to, our condolences to you and his family.
 
Sorry for your loss Pommpey.

Freddie sounded like a diamond and a Bladey diamond at that.

RIP ⚔️
 
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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RIP Fellow Blade.
 
Condolences pommps.

Another member of the Blades family now watching it all unfold from above. Sounded like a fantastic role model to have growing up.

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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A true Blade. A true Sheffielder.

A wonderful tribute. RIP
 
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.

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I was a miner at Treeton Pommpey. We had a Fred Haddington who was president of the Num. Any relation?
 

RIP Blade he now has the best seat in the house
 
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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So very sorry for your loss fella. Can I ask... Did your uncle Fred work at either Orgreave or Nunnery collieries? My late father had a friend with same name from his days down the threppeny bit... Rip Blade.
 
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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So sorry to hear that and please accept my sympathies for you and your family. It’s nice to hear stories of the red and white shirt being passed on through the generations in the way you describe. As supporters, we don’t own it, we just look after it for the time we are here. I’m sure Freddie is happy to know that it’s still in such good hands.
 
Willie Carlin said:
I was a miner at Treeton Pommpey. We had a Fred Haddington who was president of the Num. Any relation?
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It probably was. Fred was very, VERY much a NUM man. Like I say, I don't think we'd chime politically (much) but dammit he wouldn't half stand his ground. My mum was a Thatcher follower, so you can imagine the base level contempt he'd show her sometimes.

It's people like Fred you need to sustain healthy political discourse and stop people like Jacob Rees-Mogg from making you of his own slave nation. Tony Benn, a man many feel was crackers, was an unbelievable man of principle who you'd never ever be able to stop listening to, even if you wholeheartedly disagreed with him. I have read a few of Benn's books, simply because he deserves to be heard and read. Same with Fred. You'd ignore him at risk of your own understanding and intelligence.

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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Very sorry for your loss, Pommpey. It sounds like your uncle was a good man who will be missed by a lot of people. Take care
 
Menage a petit pois said:
So very sorry for your loss fella. Can I ask... Did your uncle Fred work at either Orgreave or Nunnery collieries? My late father had a friend with same name from his days down the threppeny bit... Rip Blade.
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Very possibly. I know he held a few positions in the NUM and was very close to Sir Arthur himself. He was (as far as I knew) never one that the management relished encountering. The Haddingtons are now a vast Sheffield family and his nine brothers and sisters were all brought up in Neepsend and the surrounding areas. My grandfather was a shell case polisher and a 'reverser' in the many steelworks along that stretch (depending which on Hitler hadn't levelled the night before) The reversing work sounded like ten hours of the most bone shattering, muscle tearing work ever. Big fucking billet of molten steel passed through the ever narrowing rollers, back, flip it, back again, flip it, back again.

Chasing my Haddington lineage tells me the name originates near York and shifted vis Leeds to Sheffield to follow the money in the steel industry. On his other side (nineteen generations back) is the Fifth Baron of Dudley Edward Sutton - his great by four grandfather related via marriage to the Home family, traced through an illegitimate line of the Titterton family. I don't think Fred would have been happy with that! The Homes were of course ancestors of Sir Alec Douglas Home, PM of the Uk in 1963-64.

pommpey
 
pommpey said:
It probably was. Fred was very, VERY much a NUM man. Like I say, I don't think we'd chime politically (much) but dammit he wouldn't half stand his ground. My mum was a Thatcher follower, so you can imagine the base level contempt he'd show her sometimes.

It's people like Fred you need to sustain healthy political discourse and stop people like Jacob Rees-Mogg from making you of his own slave nation. Tony Benn, a man many feel was crackers, was an unbelievable man of principle who you'd never ever be able to stop listening to, even if you wholeheartedly disagreed with him. I have read a few of Benn's books, simply because he deserves to be heard and read. Same with Fred. You'd ignore him at risk of your own understanding and intelligence.

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Sorry to hear about your uncle Fred, Pommps, I think I'd have liked him. Hats off to you too, for demonstrating respect and tolerance for someone you didn't always agree with. In politics, and life, we seem to have lost a lot of that, which I find very sad. Look after yourself.
 
Sorry for your loss Pomps. Don't wan't to divulge my union/work situation here but I get Fred. we need more of his like now.
 

Willie Carlin said:
I was a miner at Treeton Pommpey. We had a Fred Haddington who was president of the Num. Any relation?
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Yes, Fred came to Treeton from Brookhouse just before the strike and as he'd been a union officer at Brookhouse (and very good he was too!), soon got voted on to the union representation at Treeton.

Took no shit and was a formidable negotiator with the draconian management.
 
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