For anybody who was about in that era, just been watching the channel 5 programme, christ what a decade of mayhem,strikes,riots,hooliganism,racicm,wars,police brutality,corruption,rising prices, er, hang about, nowts changed.

For anybody who was about in that era, just been watching the channel 5 programme, christ what a decade of mayhem,strikes,riots,hooliganism,racicm,wars,police brutality,corruption,rising prices, er, hang about, nowts changed.

 

Great times - esp as a BWFC fan. Mid 60's to mid 70's the perfect decade. Too much nanny state nonsense these days. Can't think for yerself or move without big brother watching you.

Bolty - has BBC's "Life on Mars" turned up down your way yet??

Ah the 70's when we had proper hot summers, pitch invasions and bottles of bulls eye on the embankment

Yeh.... and freezing winters, but it never seemed to bother you then, gets one below zero now, and my body seizes up.

For anybody who was about in that era, just been watching the channel 5 programme, christ what a decade of mayhem,strikes,riots,hooliganism,racicm,wars,police brutality,corruption,rising prices, er, hang about, nowts changed.

 

Great times - esp as a BWFC fan. Mid 60's to mid 70's the perfect decade. Too much nanny state nonsense these days. Can't think for yerself or move without big brother watching you.

Bolty - has BBC's "Life on Mars" turned up down your way yet??

 

Naah mate. Perth is so isolated it's a bit of a fookin time warp sometimes.

Does your question mean that this is a 'must see'?

For anybody who was about in that era, just been watching the channel 5 programme, christ what a decade of mayhem,strikes,riots,hooliganism,racicm,wars,police brutality,corruption,rising prices, er, hang about, nowts changed.

 

Great times - esp as a BWFC fan. Mid 60's to mid 70's the perfect decade. Too much nanny state nonsense these days. Can't think for yerself or move without big brother watching you.

 

Yer reet there bolty,it took the police about 15 years to get their act together.You could do whatever you wanted at the match in those days,and the coppers didn't have a fcukin clue how to cope with it

For anybody who was about in that era, just been watching the channel 5 programme, christ what a decade of mayhem,strikes,riots,hooliganism,racicm,wars,police brutality,corruption,rising prices, er, hang about, nowts changed.

 

Great times - esp as a BWFC fan. Mid 60's to mid 70's the perfect decade. Too much nanny state nonsense these days. Can't think for yerself or move without big brother watching you.

Bolty - has BBC's "Life on Mars" turned up down your way yet??

 

Naah mate. Perth is so isolated it's a bit of a fookin time warp sometimes.

Does your question mean that this is a 'must see'?

 

its a must must see

For anybody who was about in that era, just been watching the channel 5 programme, christ what a decade of mayhem,strikes,riots,hooliganism,racicm,wars,police brutality,corruption,rising prices, er, hang about, nowts changed.

 

Great times - esp as a BWFC fan. Mid 60's to mid 70's the perfect decade. Too much nanny state nonsense these days. Can't think for yerself or move without big brother watching you.

 

Yer reet there bolty,it took the police about 15 years to get their act together.You could do whatever you wanted at the match in those days,and the coppers didn't have a fcukin clue how to cope with it

 

Aye Bogs, some of the things I saw going on and was involved in in the Lever End them days would be a national scandal these days!! Too many to list but vivid memories are of a mate of mine from Tintern Avenue, Tonge Moor (where yours truly was dragged up!) tw@tting a Leicester fan with a half house brick who was being carried on a St. Johns stretcher at the time after being stabbed!; six of us running 150-200 Hull fans armed with nothing more than a ton of front and fuelled by about 10 pints o'bitter; some blindin' run ins with Derby, Brum, Villa, Sheff U etc. Nobody ever took the Lever them days. Bolton was full of mad coonts (and probably still is). Don't suppose any one off here remembers big Dennis taking on 20 OB behind Hopkys goal in front of PNE's bouncy end? A certain nutter from Denvale hanging by his hands from a steel girder in the roof at Rotherhams Millmoor for most of the first half with about 50 assorted OB and firemen below him with a net??!!! Fooking happy, funny days they were.

One of my memories of the Lever end, was when everyone was wearing them khaki Parka coats with the fur rimmed hood (i'd guess about 70/71 ish) and some snidey tvvats thought it was funny to drop lit cig ends into the hood of the poor unsuspecting fcuker in front,this happened to me a coupla times cos i was only a kid, the acrid smoke belching from the hood was almost bad enough to get a game abandoned Piss funny when it was someone else who was the victim It used to happen every home game,by the time i was old enough to get revenge and do it to some other red ginger,the fcukin parkas went out of fashion,and everyone was wearing coats without hoods (crombies i think,or maybe harrington jackets) Happy days

 

There was a shop on Halliwell rd that did a good job of repairing the hoods,by nicking some material from somewhere unnoticeable on the coat - cost about 10 bob though

If you tried the same trick at the Reebok,you'd be spotted on camera,arrested,fined and banned for life.

Yep...I do Denis Smith

They carried him off about 12 OB

 

I think it was on telly as well

For anybody who was about in that era, just been watching the channel 5 programme, christ what a decade of mayhem,strikes,riots,hooliganism,racicm,wars,police brutality,corruption,rising prices, er, hang about, nowts changed.

 

Great times - esp as a BWFC fan. Mid 60's to mid 70's the perfect decade. Too much nanny state nonsense these days. Can't think for yerself or move without big brother watching you.

Bolty - has BBC's "Life on Mars" turned up down your way yet??

 

Naah mate. Perth is so isolated it's a bit of a fookin time warp sometimes.

Does your question mean that this is a 'must see'?

As Col says, deffo. Will jog a few memories of them that left in the later stages of the big emigrations down under from here in the earlyish 70s, of which which me uncle (RIP) was one - he went when it were ??15 for your passage out by boat, though it aint been all plain sailing for the family out there since...see http://www.wanderersways.com/forum/viewtop...hlight=woolfall

Its a pity "CHAVS" dont seem to have a youth culture like the 70s, can recall from 70 onward, skins,smoothies,punk, mod revival, and the music to go with it. The chavscene has gone on far to long.

Yep...I do Denis Smith  

They carried him off about 12 OB

 

I think it was on telly as well

 

I will probably only rarely get to do this on here. Y'OWD BASTUD!!!

Joking aside, that episode with Denis was as funny as fcuk! Preston nicks close by innit? They carted him straight round there. I have a vivid picture in my head of OB helmets flying everywhere; Denis has one in a headlock, his foot on anothers throat and a few OB lying around etc. Never heard but I reckon he would have been black and blue by the time they'd finished with him outside. Rum coont though!

For anybody who was about in that era, just been watching the channel 5 programme, christ what a decade of mayhem,strikes,riots,hooliganism,racicm,wars,police brutality,corruption,rising prices, er, hang about, nowts changed.

 

Great times - esp as a BWFC fan. Mid 60's to mid 70's the perfect decade. Too much nanny state nonsense these days. Can't think for yerself or move without big brother watching you.

Bolty - has BBC's "Life on Mars" turned up down your way yet??

 

Naah mate. Perth is so isolated it's a bit of a fookin time warp sometimes.

Does your question mean that this is a 'must see'?

As Col says, deffo. Will jog a few memories of them that left in the later stages of the big emigrations down under from here in the earlyish 70s, of which which me uncle (RIP) was one - he went when it were ??15 for your passage out by boat, though it aint been all plain sailing for the family out there since...seehttp://www.wanderersways.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19340&highlight=woolfall

 

I will look forward to watching that. All gone well for my family down here. Brother came out in 79 and settled in Sydney area. He'd had a few problems in court for football related stuff (the worst being a pre seaon friendly v fukn Huddersfield outside the Happy Shop!!). Never looked back. Owns 9 acres at the foot of the Blue Mountains West of Sydney, great job, top house with pool, runs horses etc.

When I got offered two overseas jobs (Canada and South Africa) in 1987, missus stepped in and said words to the effect of '' If we're goin anywhere, it will be Australia". Job offer came 31st October for Oz and we were here in Feb 88. Acceptance took 27 days after everyone said allow 6 months!! Never looked back. Only miss BWFC and that Bolton humour.

Sounds like your uncle was what the Aussies call a "10 pound Pom". Loads of em in Perth mate. This was the first stop in Oz and many were sick to death of the ship by then. Got off and stayed.

Sounds like your uncle was what the Aussies call a "10 pound Pom". Loads of em in Perth mate. This was the first stop in Oz and many were sick to death of the ship by then. Got off and stayed.

Sounds about right - I think they did get off as soon a possible, though they ended up in Melbourne eventually and made good money (he was a salesman with no great speciality of prospect here, but cottoned on to the opportunities there and started importing specialist surgical equipment from Switzerland and made a mint). But it soon became apparent that him and the kids were staying and when I last saw him before he died he made no bones about the fact that he then regarded himself as Aussie - he was proud of his roots and a bit of him was always going to be the NW, but when push came to shove Australia had just provided him and his family with too much opportunity to turn his back on.

Sounds like your uncle was what the Aussies call a "10 pound Pom". Loads of em in Perth mate. This was the first stop in Oz and many were sick to death of the ship by then. Got off and stayed.

Sounds about right - I think they did get off as soon a possible, though they ended up in Melbourne eventually and made good money (he was a salesman with no great speciality of prospect here, but cottoned on to the opportunities there and started importing specialist surgical equipment from Switzerland and made a mint). But it soon became apparent that him and the kids were staying and when I last saw him before he died he made no bones about the fact that he then regarded himself as Aussie - he was proud of his roots and a bit of him was always going to be the NW, but when push came to shove Australia had just provided him and his family with too much opportunity to turn his back on.

 

Bit different in the Bolty household I can tell you. Staunchly English. Kids were 2 and 4 when we came here and consider themselves Poms. We all support everybody against Australia at everything. Such a bunch of one eyed biased bastuds you have never met before. The year we got here, the Seoul Olympics were on. Some 200m sprint final or summat and the Aussie ran a personal best in running 5th. Commentators ranted on about how great she'd done and never told us who had won gold, silver and bronze or showed the medal ceremony. Didn't watch another bit of the Olymics after that. Just been the same with the C/wealth games. Had to rely on the BBC Sport web page to find out who had won what ( and I don't just mean England. I get a kick out of some minnow winning summat like St.Kitts etc. - but that's just the Englishness coming through innit).

They brought me here to get industrial gearbox design skills they didn't have. I regard it as a chance to help reclaim this land for the Crown.

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 50's, 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, because...

 

Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint, which was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.

 

When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and fluorescent 'clackers' on our wheels. As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or air bags - riding in the passenger seat was a treat.

 

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.

 

We ate dripping sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

 

We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this. We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

 

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us all day and no - one minded.

 

We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went outside and found them.

 

We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt.

 

We fell out of trees, got cut and broken bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits. They were accidents. We learnt not to do the same thing again.

 

We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue we learned to get over it.

 

We walked to friend's homes.

 

We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school, we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.

 

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate live stuff, and although we were told it would happen, we did not have very many eyes out, nor did the live stuff live inside us forever.

 

We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.

 

Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected.

 

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that!

 

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

 

And you're one of them. Congratulations!

 

 

Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.

 

For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to read about us.

 

This my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a smile on your face.

 

The majority of students in universities today were born in 1987........ They are called youth.

They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children, and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel.

They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena or Belinda Carlisle.

For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.

AIDS has existed since they were born.

CD's have existed since they were born.

Michael Jackson has always been white.

To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could be a God of dance.

They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are just new films out.

They think that N-Trance "set you free" is an Old Skool song.

They can never imagine life before computers.

They've never heard of Pac-Man or Space Invaders or BBC computers that have Bat n Ball games.

They'll never have thought Jazz was the sexiest aftershave ever.

They'll never have pretended to be the A Team, Red Hand Gang or the Famous Five.

They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It or Why Don't You.

They can't believe a black and white television ever existed and don't even know how to switch on a TV without a remote control.

And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone.

Now let's check if we're getting old...

 

1. You understand what was written above and you smile.

2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.

3. Your friends are getting married.

4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.

5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.

6. You've developed more and more feelings about your work. It's now your life.

7. You spend less and less time talking on phone with your friends daily.

8. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old days, repeating again and again all funny stories you have experienced together.

9. Having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some other friends because you think they will like it too...

 

Yes, you're getting older !!!!

 

 

All my own work you know :^o :^o

we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.  

now aint that the truth

kids only stop in these days and talk bollox on forums

Bolty,

Dennis still hobbling about around Deane and Daubhill

Good goalkeeper in his day and a good darter.

Bolty,

Dennis still hobbling about around Deane and Daubhill

Good goalkeeper in his day and a good darter.

 

Good to hear mate. Top lad and a BWFC fanatic. Great memories of some of his exploits!