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Scunthorpe 

5 hours ago, bolton va va said:

The "Beaver" clue gave it to me !!!

If Typhoo ...

Chesterfield?

5 hours ago, victor meldrew said:

Scunthorpe 

👍 cunt!

 

58 minutes ago, tomski said:

Chesterfield?

👎

1 hour ago, Mannyroader said:

If Typhoo ...

Yep 😊.

Fans queueing to get on the embankment 

 

11 minutes ago, Zico said:

Fans queueing to get on the embankment 

 

Burnden Park.

8 hours ago, Zico said:

Fans queueing to get on the embankment 

 

Are they? Nobody in the ground,  turnstiles shut, no-one wearing a scarf. Queueing for tickets? Everton away in LC Semi-Final?

1 hour ago, Mannyroader said:

Are they? Nobody in the ground,  turnstiles shut, no-one wearing a scarf. Queueing for tickets? Everton away in LC Semi-Final?

I would say the picture is before that. But that's a good observation about the colours. I've also noticed a pram in the picture. I know the preacher Billy Graham did a service at Burnden Park in the 60s. I wonder if it could have been that 🤔

8 minutes ago, Underpants said:

I would say the picture is before that. But that's a good observation about the colours. I've also noticed a pram in the picture. I know the preacher Billy Graham did a service at Burnden Park in the 60s. I wonder if it could have been that 🤔

id say thered me more women if it was billy graham

 

could it be queuing to get in for stoke, though theres no end is nigh chap

can we see the prices over the turnstiles?

The prices over the turnstiles at the embankment read 7 shillings which obviously pre-dates decimalisation in 1971.

I think it’s the ticket queue for the 1970 FA cup semi final between Leeds & our friends from Stretford.

No scarves , women with prams & the fashion of the time tick that box for me .

I actually went to the game , after selling programmes, got a freebie into Manny Road north.

Because it was a replay three days after the initial game at Villa Park , Leeds only shifted around 17k tickets , You wouldn’t have thought so when Leeds scored, the Embankment had been allocated to them , 20k celebrating wildly !

 

Edited October 25, 20232 yr by Take Hunt Off
Typo

3 hours ago, Mannyroader said:

Are they? Nobody in the ground,  turnstiles shut, no-one wearing a scarf. Queueing for tickets? Everton away in LC Semi-Final?

No idea 

"Queue outside with embankment in background" 

Would be a better description

On 25/10/2023 at 00:10, Zico said:

Fans queueing to get on the embankment 

 

I may have solved the mystery of this picture. I think we have deduced that this is not a match day. No colours and women with prams. The general make-up of a queue tends to say it's not a football crowd. I thought it might be a Billy Graham preaching event. But these sort of events, which BP had a few of, happened during the summer months. This picture isn't summer.

There was a time when BP had organised firework displays. Yes it's daylight, and this throws a little doubt on this event, but nights fall quickly in November. Although not a conclusive answer i think it's a  plausible one given the evidence the picture supply's.

Undies, your man on the spot and with friends in high places 🤫

 

Police horses indicate crowd control ie lots of people , can’t believe mounted police were needed for a bonfire.Probably many more mounted bobbies & queues at other Manny Road turnstiles.Still reckon it’s 1970 FA cup semi-final replay ticket queues , the short time between the first tie & the replay would mean the tickets on sale during a workday hence the prams etc.

Queued up in similar fashion for the 1966 semi final tickets (Everton v the rags )Bill Riding walking up & down smoking a big cigar pretending it was something to do with him .

 

1 hour ago, Take Hunt Off said:

Police horses indicate crowd control ie lots of people , can’t believe mounted police were needed for a bonfire.Probably many more mounted bobbies & queues at other Manny Road turnstiles.Still reckon it’s 1970 FA cup semi-final replay ticket queues , the short time between the first tie & the replay would mean the tickets on sale during a workday hence the prams etc.

Queued up in similar fashion for the 1966 semi final tickets (Everton v the rags )Bill Riding walking up & down smoking a big cigar pretending it was something to do with him .

 

Even accounting for wagging there's far too many kids there for it to be a weekday.

2 hours ago, Underpants said:

Even accounting for wagging there's far too many kids there for it to be a weekday.

It was Easter week , Easter Sunday was the 29th March , tickets were on sale on the Tues 24th or Wed 25th for the match 26th March 1970 following the first replay at Villa Park on Monday the 23rd.

Kids would have been off school.

3 minutes ago, Take Hunt Off said:

It was Easter week , Easter Sunday was the 29th March , tickets were on sale on the Tues 24th or Wed 25th for the match 26th March 1970 following the first replay at Villa Park on Monday the 23rd.

Kids would have been off school.

I guess we'll not know for sure what the queue is for.

But answer me this. Genuine question. What were the tickets arrangements like back then? If this is a queue for match tickets was it common to queue at the Embankment turnstiles to get them? I only remember going to BP ticket office for tickets. But the BPTO obviously wasn't there back in the 60s/70s.

In 1966 for the Everton v Manc semi we queued at the embankment for tickets at that end , similarly if you wanted paddock tickets you queued there.

I remember going down with my dad to get them , In 1970 I was working as an apprentice & couldn’t get out of work to go & queue.

Fortunately I used to flog lottery type tickets for the club & through them got a programme sellers job for the night due to the larger crowd & a free ticket in .To be honest I can’t remember how I got my ticket for the Man City League cup game a few years later , must have sold programmes again.42k on that night.

As you rightly say we don’t know absolutely but I’d have a few Bob on my assessment.

Edited October 26, 20232 yr by Take Hunt Off

2 minutes ago, Horwich said:

Accrington 

2 hours ago, victor meldrew said:

Accrington 

Who are they? 

Springfield Park, post renovation. 

5 hours ago, victor meldrew said:

Accrington 

Looks like it to me. Park pub in the background 

7 hours ago, victor meldrew said:

Accrington 

Correct. Mr Holt needs to stick a few more quid in.

8 hours ago, Horwich said:

Correct. Mr Holt needs to stick a few more quid in.

What year was that ?

I mean, there's rough & there's unusable.