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Dont know if there were any footage in Spring and Port Wine, they went to the match in the book.  

Also Burnden and BWFC were on Game For A Laugh , playing football on quadbikes or something. 

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On 05/01/2024 at 17:48, 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...

Threw it done the stairs probably 😁

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3 hours ago, Krimzon said:

 

Also Burnden and BWFC were on Game For A Laugh , playing football on quadbikes or something. 

Matthew Kelly said he was wearing a pair of Nat Lofthouse's old boots.

"Nat was no nit when it came to putting them in the net!" 80s telly was so crap!

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On 05/01/2024 at 17:48, 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...

Top of Slack Lane .

Any one else every play on that pitch there ?

One half of the pitch sloped. 

Decent toe bung from just over the half way line , resulted in many a goal in the top corner. 

Not by me I must admit , I was preoccupied with hacking down anyone who showed a modicum of skill on the ball.

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6 hours 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....

 

 

 

Brought a tear to my eye that. Thanks mate.

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8 hours ago, embankment said:

Top of Slack Lane .

Any one else every play on that pitch there ?

One half of the pitch sloped. 

Decent toe bung from just over the half way line , resulted in many a goal in the top corner. 

Not by me I must admit , I was preoccupied with hacking down anyone who showed a modicum of skill on the ball.

Many times. It was our 'home ground' for a few seasons. Same as you, re stopping others playing although I did manage a rare goal there once.

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17 hours ago, Duck Egg said:

Matthew Kelly said he was wearing a pair of Nat Lofthouse's old boots.

"Nat was no nit when it came to putting them in the net!" 80s telly was so crap!

Thats some kind of Robotic memory core you have there or have you seen it since 83/84 ? 

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On 06/01/2024 at 18:39, 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....

 

 

 

Town hall and fountains and various streets in this from the 60s.

Fountains etc at 38 minutes on. Oh and Hayley Mills's arse from just after 49 🙂

The Family Way - HD (1966) - video Dailymotion

 

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On 07/01/2024 at 00:15, embankment said:

Top of Slack Lane .

Any one else every play on that pitch there ?

One half of the pitch sloped. 

Decent toe bung from just over the half way line , resulted in many a goal in the top corner. 

Not by me I must admit , I was preoccupied with hacking down anyone who showed a modicum of skill on the ball.

A rare talent Rory 

You n Jack Charlton

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11 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

I think I remember it being posted here previously but not on this thread

Has anyone got any idea exactly where that is?

It's just before the lines crossed over Manny Road , obviously on the bridge that we used to walk under.

What's there now,  probably a scrote begging as you head to do ya big shop in Asda.

" any change pal ? "

" yep bloody loads can hardly walk , because I can be bothered working "

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11 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

I think I remember it being posted here previously but not on this thread

Has anyone got any idea exactly where that is?

If you take the left hand fork, I think it is the right hand fork in this earlier picture.  Looking from the opposite way if you like.

Effectively, the part you're commenting on is just off this one, to the mid/top right.

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58 minutes ago, embankment said:

It's just before the lines crossed over Manny Road , obviously on the bridge that we used to walk under.

What's there now,  probably a scrote begging as you head to do ya big shop in Asda.

" any change pal ? "

" yep bloody loads can hardly walk , because I can be bothered working "

😂😂😂

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11 hours ago, embankment said:

It's just before the lines crossed over Manny Road , obviously on the bridge that we used to walk under.

What's there now,  probably a scrote begging as you head to do ya big shop in Asda.

" any change pal ? "

" yep bloody loads can hardly walk , because I can be bothered working "

Yes. Not far off the view from the old Platform 4 at Trinity St.

Lines arcing to the left off to Bury across the back of the Embankment. Others towards Manc.

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