Name The Ground

[Casino]

Saw that on the canals page

Some moron whinging about the road being built

[Rival Son]

Burnden Park

[Whitestar]

Great photo that, makes you think of one of them days around this time of year just before the 6 week holidays when you're wagging off school but just wander around odd bits of out of sight areas until normal home time.

[Dr. Feelgood]

3 hours ago, Whitestar said:

Great photo that, makes you think of one of them days around this time of year just before the 6 week holidays when you're wagging off school but just wander around odd bits of out of sight areas until normal home time.

Six, surely it was ten ? 

[DazBob]

2 hours ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

Six, surely it was ten ? 

Was six when I was at school.

 

Bolton holidays for 2 weeks, back to school for a bit and then 6 weeks off.

[Dr. Feelgood]

1 hour ago, DazBob said:

Was six when I was at school.

 

Bolton holidays for 2 weeks, back to school for a bit and then 6 weeks off.

Not if you went to a proper school.

[Zico]

1 hour ago, DazBob said:

Was six when I was at school.

 

Bolton holidays for 2 weeks, back to school for a bit and then 6 weeks off.

I don't recall anything other than six weeks holiday 

Back in by early to mid August 

 

[FrancisFogarty]

Great picture that.

6 weeks holiday it was called in my day.

2 weeks for Bolton wakes weeks (and the bat and ball comp at Wimbledon I think), then back to school for two weeks, then 6 week hols. 

Out at daybreak, home at dusk, black as the hobs of hell according to my mum, and starving hungry.

Aye, them were the days.

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[mickbrown]

47 minutes ago, Zico said:

I don't recall anything other than six weeks holiday 

Back in by early to mid August 

 

We did 2 off, 2 back, then 6 off

[FrancisFogarty]

3 minutes ago, mickbrown said:

We did 2 off, 2 back, then 6 off

Quite Mick.

[Zico]

Just now, mickbrown said:

We did 2 off, 2 back, then 6 off

Maybe we did 

I'd have to ask my mum 

But I only recall six weeks summer holidays 

[FrancisFogarty]

17 minutes ago, FrancisFogarty said:

Great picture that.

6 weeks holiday it was called in my day.

2 weeks for Bolton wakes weeks (and the bat and ball comp at Wimbledon I think), then back to school for two weeks, then 6 week hols. 

Out at daybreak, home at dusk, black as the hobs of hell according to my mum, and starving hungry.

Aye, them were the days.

And Bolton holidays were just that. I started work at Fletchers Paper Mill, a 24/7 works, and there was nobody about apart from the machanics in on maintenance. The pubs were quiet because the mill workers used to go to Blackpool for the wakes.The paper shop used to be closed, and one of the trustee paper boys used to sit outside and sell the papers.

Apologies, I went all maudling then.

[Whitestar]

15 minutes ago, FrancisFogarty said:

And Bolton holidays were just that. I started work at Fletchers Paper Mill, a 24/7 works, and there was nobody about apart from the machanics in on maintenance. The pubs were quiet because the mill workers used to go to Blackpool for the wakes.The paper shop used to be closed, and one of the trustee paper boys used to sit outside and sell the papers.

Apologies, I went all maudling then.

Yeah, chippy's would have a hand written sign in the window 

"Closed for Bolton Holidays, sorry for the inconvenience"

Horwich holidays were always the 2 weeks before, which was weird if you were ont works and all yer mates were still working.

[FrancisFogarty]

1 hour ago, Whitestar said:

Yeah, chippy's would have a hand written sign in the window 

"Closed for Bolton Holidays, sorry for the inconvenience"

Horwich holidays were always the 2 weeks before, which was weird if you were ont works and all yer mates were still working.

Written on a barm-cake sized paper bag.

[Whitestar]

Omg. Exactly what i was seeing in my minds eye.

[Traf]

15 hours ago, Whitestar said:

Yeah, chippy's would have a hand written sign in the window 

"Closed for Bolton Holidays, sorry for the inconvenience"

Horwich holidays were always the 2 weeks before, which was weird if you were ont works and all yer mates were still working.

Newsagents closed and some kid sat outside the shop selling a pile of the BEN weighted down with a brick.

[Zico]

Name the ex player 

 

[Whitestar]

Has he got a shiner?

Don McAllister??

[Casino]

reeves?

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Could the tower blocks in the background be a vague clue?

[Casino]

have they been flattened?

[RONNIE PHILLIPS]

1 hour ago, Casino said:

have they been flattened?

Not sure but it looks like he has. 

[RONNIE PHILLIPS]

I'm going Steve Fulton.... Looks like your average Jock after a Saturday night out.... Or even in 😁

[Steejay]

Jim McDonagh

[Zico]

When I say ex player I mean in general 

He didn't play for us 

But was a well known PL name in the 90s