Blackburn 1975/76 season as a very young lad,think we drew 1-1,first time i'd heard the 'oh,wanky,wanky' chant

 

internationally away,i made my debut at Hampden Park against the sweaties in 1984,again a 1-1 draw,with a certain mr lineker also making his England debut that day

I do recall the Bradley Fold station, just at the side of the road. A footbridge went over the line. Where was the Darcy Lever station though?

http://www.pastscape.org.uk/maps.aspx?a=0&hob_id=499084&type=&class1=None&period=None&county=1306799&parish=None&district=None&place=&rational=a&rtype=&rnumber=&recordsperpage=10&nor=6188&p=407&recfc=4000&move=n&source=text&sort=2

 

Strangely, it seems the Darcy Lever station was on the Burnden/Bolton side of the viaduct & not the Darcy side.

Police and fire brigade members beneath him with a big blanket

 

It is yobbish and irresponsible behaviour like that which has ruined many a game of snooker.

one of the lads from the vic on chorley old rd was up the floodlights at huddersfield in the late 80's early 90's if i remember correctly.

 

pretty sure the same lad 'borrowed' a fire engine from outside the same pub after he made a hoax call re a fire at the pub

 

like bolty said,sure is some mad people following the wanderers

would folk who went in the vic go in the halliwell lodge?

 

proper headcases them lot

Wigan away on Boxing Day, lost 1-0, 84ish?

 

Now that was a fun morning & afternoon...

one of the lads from the vic on chorley old rd was up the floodlights at huddersfield in the late 80's early 90's if i remember correctly.

 

pretty sure the same lad 'borrowed' a fire engine from outside the same pub after he made a hoax call re a fire at the pub

 

like bolty said,sure is some mad people following the wanderers

 

Don't know about borrowing one from a hoax call; the driver would have stayed in the cab. We did, however, have one nicked from that neck of the woods when a shop cellar was flooded and we were pumping it out. The driver had nipped in to see the gaffer and fire engine had gone when he got back outside.

Don't know about borrowing one from a hoax call; I would have stayed in the cab. We did, however, have one nicked from that neck of the woods when a shop cellar was flooded and we were pumping it out. The driver had nipped in to see the gaffer and fire engine had gone when he got back outside.

at least alter the other two references to the driver. It wasn't me anyway.

As others have said.. Seem to recall it was Platform 4 and the first thing that happened was crossing the back of the Embankment and all the lads hanging out of the windows singing and saluting Burnden.

 

It was the Waiting Room they torched, just as the train pulled in. As it left, the flames were licking up the windows. We had some mad fcukers at Bolton. I know I have recounted the tale before of the Millmoor incident when one of ours hung by one arm for a while watching the game from the high end of a cantilever stand beam. Police and fire brigade members beneath him with a big blanket

 

 

Must have been superb on the train to Bury, big cheer as you past the back of the Embankment, certainly very different days, when you take into account 20,000 plus attendances on Gigg Lane, I suppose the Bolton V Bury game was a big derby game back then before half of Bolton and 3/4 of Bury supported the scum and the council house dwellers, times certainly changed and not for the better, Im glad I am just about old enough to remember how it used to be back in the day. Thanks to the older lads for sharing the memories of the days before I was around.

I grew up a stones throw from the old 'haunted' Bradley Fold st. Always used to wish it was still open just so I could ride past Burnden. Like Mounts says, must have been immense!

Take a look on Google Earth. Start at Burnden and you can follow the course of the old railway. I;m surprised how many bridges are still up.

spent half my childhood playing on the old railway embankments near black lane station

 

think the line is now filled in

 

would have made a cracking cycleway

What happened to the builders who wanted to create a linear housing estate on the railway cutting between Long Lane and Little Lever?