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ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 4:12 pm
by ClaretTony
Team go on a tour of the town with the trophy in 1960
See link
https://www.uptheclarets.com/champions- ... d-the-town
Re: ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 4:51 pm
by Royboyclaret
Another amazing day indelibly etched in the memory bank.
I was 13 years old at the time, just old enough to appreciate how good this team was, as Jimmy Adamson lifted the trophy above his head on the Town Hall balcony. Almost 40 years earlier a certain Bob Lord, himself just a few weeks short of his 13th birhday, watched on as Tommy Boyle lifted the same trophy on the same Town Hall balcony. He vowed to himself then that one day in the future he would see the same scenes repeated, but this time to be part of our great Club. His wish had come true.
Re: ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 5:01 pm
by ClaretTony
I was just 8 at the time and too young to appreciate anything to be honest - all I can ever say, even though I was still to make my debut on the Turf Moor terraces, was that I was privileged to have seen all of those players play for us.
Re: ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 5:04 pm
by Claretlad
I stood on Kiddrow lane with some mates and we watched the team go by...
Re: ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 5:56 pm
by Silkyskills1
ClaretTony wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 5:01 pm
I was just 8 at the time and too young to appreciate anything to be honest - all I can ever say, even though I was still to make my debut on the Turf Moor terraces, was that I was privileged to have seen all of those players play for us.
Good point made there. I,too, was only 8 but appreciating what had been achieved went over my head. We had won something but the significance/importance was lost on me.
Blackburn had knocked us out of the FA Cup a few weeks earlier but I watched the final and wanted them to win. Wouldn't happen now of course but life was so much simpler then or so it seems.
Re: ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 1:10 am
by mdd2
16 and followed the coach for several miles around the town. This August will make me 70 years a claret-what memories and 30 of those in the top flight-not bad for a small town club.
Re: ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 3:35 am
by Suratclaret
I remember the scenes pretty well and also remember my dad saying we shouldn't miss seeing the team on the bus and at the Town Hall as, winning the league, it might never happen again.
Re: ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 10:19 am
by cricketfield73
It's been a great series of articles to read week by week throughout the season and the fascinating local news stories really set the scene from a time just before I was born. I think the one thing that struck me most was just what a part Trevor Meredith played in it all coming from absolutely nowhere.
I've studied that second picture closely but I can't identify any landmarks to place where it is, no doubt someone on here will know.
Re: ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 10:24 am
by huw.Y.WattfromWare
Also too young to appreciate how special it was. Actually grew up thinking this was the norm.
Re: ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 11:11 am
by ClaretTony
cricketfield73 wrote: ↑Tue May 12, 2020 10:19 am
I've studied that second picture closely but I can't identify any landmarks to place where it is, no doubt someone on here will know.
Photo taken from the Town Hall - if you look to the far right of the picture, the left turn of Manchester Road is into Finsley Gate. That's a pub on the far corner of that junction but I can't remember the name of it. The taller building just below could have been the fire station.
Re: ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 11:12 am
by ClaretTony
huw.Y.WattfromWare wrote: ↑Tue May 12, 2020 10:24 am
Also too young to appreciate how special it was. Actually grew up thinking this was the norm.
They don't happen very often do they? That's why I went down to the Town Hall in 2014 and 2016. You never know when a big occasion is ever going to come again.
Re: ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 12:49 pm
by Stan Tastic
ClaretTony wrote: ↑Tue May 12, 2020 11:11 am
Photo taken from the Town Hall - if you look to the far right of the picture, the left turn of Manchester Road is into Finsley Gate. That's a pub on the far corner of that junction but I can't remember the name of it. The taller building just below could have been the fire station.
Was the pub The Canal Tavern?
Re: ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 1:16 pm
by ClaretTony
Stan Tastic wrote: ↑Tue May 12, 2020 12:49 pm
Was the pub The Canal Tavern?
It was - thanks for that, don’t think I would have got it.
Re: ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 2:54 pm
by ElectroClaret
Bit too young to remember it.
I was four.
Incidentally, when did the Footballers Arms close?
(At the top of Plumbe Street in the first photo.)
Re: ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 2:56 pm
by ClaretTony
ElectroClaret wrote: ↑Tue May 12, 2020 2:54 pm
Bit too young to remember it.
I was four.
Incidentally, when did the Footballers Arms close?
(At the top of Plumbe Street in the first photo.)
It’s a lot of years ago now. I think it was Premier Gas after the pub closed and then a bookies.
Re: ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 3:13 pm
by Vino blanco
I remember going in the Footballers Arms in the 1966/1967 season when we were playing in Europe and I was at university. I used to travel up from Birmingham for those midweek matches. I'm pretty sure the pub had a fire in 1968 which in effect closed it down.
I also went in the Canal Tavern a couple times in my youth, a dark and scruffy little pub, which closed in 72/73 if my memory is correct.
Re: ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 4:28 pm
by ClaretTony
Vino blanco wrote: ↑Tue May 12, 2020 3:13 pm
I remember going in the Footballers Arms in the 1966/1967 season when we were playing in Europe and I was at university. I used to travel up from Birmingham for those midweek matches. I'm pretty sure the pub had a fire in 1968 which in effect closed it down.
I also went in the Canal Tavern a couple times in my youth, a dark and scruffy little pub, which closed in 72/73 if my memory is correct.
I did go in the Canal Tavern, despite not being able to remember the name, but can't recall ever going in the Footballers. The dates you have given tally with that given I'd be 14 or 15 when the Footballers closed and 20 or 21 with the Canal Tavern.
Re: ARTICLE: Champions receive wonderful reception around the town
Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 4:31 pm
by ClaretTony
Here's a better pic of the Canal Tavern
- Canal Tavern.jpg (61.58 KiB) Viewed 728 times