Tour of Canada & USA 1962

[Escafeld]

I've got a new toy, a scanner, so have been digitising some of my Blades 'memorabilia'. Found this pamphlet in a box. It tells the story of the club's tour of Canada & the USA in the summer of 1962. Quite an interesting read ...

You can find the embedded 27-page document here. Toggle it to full screen then zoom in on the text.

Blades Tour of Canada & USA 1962

 

[ISZA ⚔️]

I've got a new toy, a scanner, so have been digitising some of my Blades 'memorabilia'. Found this pamphlet in a box. It tells the story of the club's tour of Canada & the USA in the summer of 1962. Quite an interesting read ...

You can find the embedded 27-page document here. Toggle it to full screen then zoom in on the text.

Blades Tour of Canada & USA 1962

Is this still available Escafeld - link is dead. Would love to see it.

 

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Is this still available Escafeld - link is dead. Would love to see it.

If you look on the 60 Years Ago Thread (search that title and my user name), from post 934 on, there are details, and I photographed most if not all of the text. Let me know if you have a problem, and I will post it again.

 

[ISZA ⚔️]

If you look on the 60 Years Ago Thread (search that title and my user name), from post 934 on, there are details, and I photographed most if not all of the text. Let me know if you have a problem, and I will post it again.

Can’t seem to find it. Can you send a link rather than repost it?

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Does this work?

 

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Can’t seem to find it. Can you send a link rather than repost it?

Don’t think that did work. The thread title is ‘60 Years Ago This Month’. Let me know if you still can’t find it - my young ‘un is coming round this evening, and I will get him to show me again (!) how to do links. I am hopeless with technology. Apologies

 

[Greenwich Blade]

60 years ago this month...

He looked like Albert Steptoe but I have read that he was a key player in Ipswich League champions season in 1961-62 Norman Giller article in Backpass, read yesterday, compares him to Stan Laurel in looks. 😅

www.s24su.com

 

[Greenwich Blade]

60 years ago this month...

He looked like Albert Steptoe but I have read that he was a key player in Ipswich League champions season in 1961-62 Norman Giller article in Backpass, read yesterday, compares him to Stan Laurel in looks. 😅

www.s24su.com

That seems to have worked. Once you're there, scroll down for the rest of the pages.

 

[ISZA ⚔️]

Does anyone on here have this?

 

[ISZA ⚔️]

Or any info about it.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

That seems to have worked. Once you're there, scroll down for the rest of the pages.

I’ll have to get you to give me a tutorial. Trouble is, by the following day I will have forgotten again how to do it

 

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Does anyone on here have this?
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Would all the members of the touring group have worn it? There was no airport security to go through at that time…

 

[ISZA ⚔️]

Would all the members of the touring group have worn it? There was no airport security to go through at that time…

I think I read they were only produced for the first team - maybe the touring group as you say..?

 

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[HodgysBrokenThumb]

A long shot for information: does Bob Widdowson still live in this area? He was a young goalkeeper on the tour, but broke his arm and returned early, if I remember correctly. Last I read about him he was still involved in coaching young goalkeepers.

 

[derbysufc]

I had the Canadian tour badge as part of a 5,000 plus blades badge collection .
There were very few I didn't have .
Sadly I had to sell my collection to fund my divorce in 2012 that lasted over 4 years and cost thousands.

 

[derbysufc]

The badges were incidentally only given out to the players on the tour.

 

[derbysufc]

Mentioned I'd sold a collection of over 5000 different blades badges in all colour versions to cover my divorce fees 10 years ago
Just found this rare one I made many years ago when it first opened.
SHEFFIELD TAP , PLATFORM 1B
blades real ale camera member badge.

 

[petrusha]

A long shot for information: does Bob Widdowson still live in this area? He was a young goalkeeper on the tour, but broke his arm and returned early, if I remember correctly. Last I read about him he was still involved in coaching young goalkeepers.

This suggests he does still live in South Yorkshire: Swinton’s Bob Widdowson has been recognised by the FA. I may be missing something, but I don't see a posting date on that page. However, while he received the award referred to in the article in 2018, he's stated to be 79, which suggests that the time of writing is between September 2020 and September 2021. At that stage, according to the article he was taking young goalkeepers for private sessions, his last permanent gig seemingly having been at Notts County Ladies.

There's a link to an interview he did with an American podcast, which may give more information about his coaching. I haven't had time to listen to it yet.