Off Topic Where Are They Now?

wow posted on the other thread about finding jobs and voila here you post one of the teams
Amazing picture and look at the grass ... they don't play on such lush turf nowadays!.. grass used to stop the mud clogging their boots!

 

This photo was taken the year Ann and I left for Canada but even so there are still some very memorable names on that team sheet. I notice that none of them became millionaires with Bentleys and luxury yachts and yet they all contributed probably more to the integrity of the game than today's pampered mob. Regrettably their contribution to City's history will be missed by the supporters of today but the names will linger long in the memories of people of my age, and many more on this site. Thank you to all of them.

 

very fond memories indeed

 

This era (from a few years before when we were preparing for promotion, and for a few seasons afterwards until we went Ski Sunday) was undoubtedly the most enjoyable period of my City following life
Brilliant players, excellent football and a great atmosphere at all home games

 

spent many a happy couple of hours on the terrace behind the goal at open end.
With my mate we used alternate between us 2- 3 mins before half time go get 2 cups tea and 2 pies very few goals were scored 43 44 45 mins .. had a piece of wood with 4 legs and used to put on barrier to hold cups only about 4" long and 3" wide barrier was round but never tipped as had a couple bits rubber under corner edges and was a tight fit! Had a board mills south wester and a square sheet of coated type cotton for a ex WD pauncho ... funny thing is cant remember many times we got wet / rained on ... cold was the killer though!

 

Does anyone remember our F.A. cup game versus Blackpool which I think was somewhere in the early sixties and if my memory serves me correctly Stanley Matthews played??? Has my memory faded or can I still drag the past from those far off days. The first appearance by Bobby Gould at Ashton Gate and didn't he get sent off? Many memories of sometimes hitch hiking to Bristol on the A38 from Edithmead and the adventures along the way - oh happy days.

 

I was only a babber but I remember at this time only having one sub, normally Ivor Emanuel or Mickey Brolly

 

Cant remember if it was a cup game or league or how many times we played them back then but one game sticks out losing 2-4 for some reason we left a bout 5mins from end but City were destined to lose? quite a few goals scored as walked toward Bemmy to get car ..... only time we ever left early! think it was mid 60's

 

Game against Blackpool was 24th January 1959 FA Cup 4th round. Result was 1-1. Stanley Matthews played but Mike Thresher kept him quiet. Lost the replay 1-0.

I was there!

 

Me too RS and I think the attendance was about 42,000 - those were the days. I watched the game from the side of the old shed we had where the Dolman is now and they had the nerve to call it a grandstand. Are there any photos or reports of the match out there in cyberspace?

 

those were the days Courage and Imperial a little known fact ... a cheque for £1m yep £ 1,000, 000 was written every day for the tax on the tobacco that was released from bond for the next day.... [ that was in 1965 ] for any younger members those red brick buildings were crammed with raw tobacco leaves .. every [most ]day ships would unload bales of leaves which were bonded till tax paid. 3 wheeled SCAMMEL tractor units would transfer to machine processing rooms " up the road" where the brand on the stand was made!
how do I know? well I did an apprenticeship at ST Annes Board Mills ... and had a tour a couple of times ... Mardon son and Hall made up the third of the top 5 employers in Bristol
So dockers unloaded it.... Wills as was known made the fags ... St Annes Board mill made the paper board which Mardons printed into the fag packets and a lot of us puffed away watching City play at the gate ... before or afterwards supping a pint or 2 of courage ............... hey ho have a piece of the last bit of board that came off a St Annes making machine! ...the very last 8 or so inches that made it to the winder!

no idea why the strike out

 

those were the days Courage and Imperial a little known fact .

Wasn’t it George’s brewery in 1959?

 

According to the stats our highest ever attendance was 43,335 v. Preston North End (16 February 1935) so this would have been close by the sounds of it.
The 2 home FA cup games in 1974 against Leeds (5th round) and then Liverpool (6th round) were both pushing 40,000 attendances and were uncomfortable to be in as a standing spectator to say the least, although hugely exciting.
The home game with Spurs in the LC Semi Final had an attendance of just over 30,000
I was at all 3 games and also went to Leeds for the 5th round reply that we won 1-0.

 

Makes me feel young, I wasn’t even a glint in my dads eye, being as how I wasn’t born until 2 years later .

 

Even then we didn’t have tents ,

 

When did this get demolished? I must have been to games when this was there as I started going mid/late 60’s, although only a young un , but could never remember what was there before the Dolman and don’t recognise this stand.

 

Great impression that, and we never actually achieved all 4 sides covered until what, 1994? 90 years later?

Not an old one, but this is one of my favourite photos of Ashton Gate. The reason being, when I was growing up, the Williams Stand was massive to me. Being really young and wondering around that stand, having a meal inside, it just felt huge. I couldn't believe a football stand had meeting rooms and restaurants and that in it as well!

This photo is brilliant because it shows just how far our ground has come in comparison to that time back then. Just look how puny the Williams looks there.

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