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Remember playing on Burnden Park around 1971/72 for Smithills U15 schools cup v Heywood which we of course won 3-1. I was playing on the wing that night (under the floodlights) and couldn't believe how wide the pitch was and how much more room I had. Don't think I interacted with any of the players on the opposite side of the field that night. Took we three attempts before I got used to crossing the ball from the corner flag. Remember getting a medal presented by one of the Bolton players, coming out the dressing room and my dad saying I should have played better and scored twice!

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17 hours ago, Wullie said:

Does anyone remember the "chuggers" who served beer on the embankment?   I remember being told about them doing this in the 1950's and 60's

Casino might know; only one on here owd enough to be drinking by then

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4 hours ago, fishbulb said:

An interesting article about Walkers Tanneries visible in the pic above.

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/19289137.walkers-tannery-brought-prosperity-smell-bolton/

lived near Walkers Institute for a while as a kid.
 

Harold Hassell, 53 cup final full back lived up the road. Dad supped in Walkers Instiiture, football team across the road and cricket ground around the corner. 

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2 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Good article.

It was obviously still going for a few years during my childhood, but I can't say I remember the smell- probably had no reason to be visiting the area.

Wingates bone-works. Now that was a smell! Specially the time they tried to render down a dead elephant from Chester zoo 🤢

I'm not sure how it was killed though. There's probably various options...

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1 minute ago, SatanGreavsie said:

Wingates bone-works. Now that was a smell! Specially the time they tried to render down a dead elephant from Chester zoo 🤢

I'm not sure how it was killed though. There's probably various options...

Where I was born- there used to be a bone works a few hundred yards away.

When I used to go back visiting relatives as a kid, you would occasionally get a whiff.

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On 30/12/2023 at 12:13, athywhite1958 said:

Wasn't there a clip in an old Arthur Askey film where the train stopped at the Embankment and he was leaning out of the window he said "I like trains"

I think there was an old (1968?) B&W film with a very very brief glimpse of a match at Burnden and Eddie Hopkinson in goal . Alan Bates , A Kind Of Loving . Could be wrong , memory is going. 

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13 minutes ago, Krimzon said:

I think there was an old (1968?) B&W film with a very very brief glimpse of a match at Burnden and Eddie Hopkinson in goal . Alan Bates , A Kind Of Loving . Could be wrong , memory is going. 

Probably the same film

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2 minutes ago, bolton va va said:

The Arthur Askey film  was "The Love Match", the one with Alan Bates & James Bolan at Burnden was "A Kind  of Loving....

Lovely shots.

Y'know what, despite years of being instructed to, I never did "DINE AT THE PACK HORSE".

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