45 years ago today ....

[Clarets4me]

The 3rd Test against Australia had just completed at Headingley, with Geoff Boycott scoring his 100th Hundred, and one I.T.Botham taking 5/21 as England won by an Innings and 85 runs. The Space Shuttle had just taken it's first flight into the atmosphere, but it was also the day Elvis Presley died.

it was one of those days that people remember where they were, and what they were doing, like the JFK assassination, Princess Diana's death, 9/11 and I suspect Michael Jackson's passing ..

Where were you and what do you remember of that day ?

[Tricky Trevor]

Boring day. Watching the test match on the tv at Mother-in-laws.

[Carnsmerry12]

In the south of France at Cassis with a girlfriend and her family. Heard the news as we finished a boat trip.

[claretburns]

I wasn't around then but talking of Geoffrey's hundredth hundred, the prank played on him a few years ago was good - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPIjT-zdryY

[GordonvaleClaret]

I was there on the Saturday when Boycott did it.

[CleggHall]

Yes was at Headingley to see it, remember driving from Tod early on a very warm morning in the year of the drought. Boycott a hero to me in those days, less so now!?

[arise_sir_charge]

In the south of France at Cassis with a girlfriend and her family. Heard the news as we finished a boat trip.

Just shows the power of test cricket that you find out about Boycott’s 100th 100 whilst in the South of France and this in the days before smartphones.

[durhamclaret]

Just shows the power of test cricket that you find out about Boycott’s 100th 100 whilst in the South of France and this in the days before smartphones.

Think he was talking about Elvis’s passing not Boycott

[Clarets4me]

I was a 13 year old spending the week at Skegness with parents and two sisters at my Grandparents tiny bungalow. I'd just made up the camp bed I used to sleep on in the Sun Lounge when the news came up at the end of " News at 10 " ...

[Chobulous]

Think he was talking about Elvis’s passing not Boycott

Whoosh

[StuffyClaret]

Not sure that the space shuttle flew until the early 80's .....unless you are referring to an unmanned test flight

[Tricky Trevor]

Think he was talking about Elvis’s passing not Boycott

My post higher up was based more on remembering where I was when Elvis died rather than the cricket.

[Carnsmerry12]

Think he was talking about Elvis’s passing not Boycott

[lakedistrictclaret]

I was at work. It was my 25th birthday, from which the mathematicians among you will work out that I am 70 today .

[AlargeClaret]

I clearly remember watching Boycott’s ton , incredible achievement . I’d no idea Elvis died same day but remember him lying in state thinking how young he looked .

Re: Jacko’s death , hardly a “ remember where you were” day surely ?

[claretburns]

I was at work. It was my 25th birthday, from which the mathematicians among you will work out that I am 70 today .

Happy 70th lakedistrict!

[Acting Claret]

Started at st teds the day after, so in bed when my mum came and told us the news.

[LeadBelly]

I dont remember Elvis' death much but recall that test match (which I think was the 4th).

1977 was the last of my 3 years working/living in Leicester & I was a member at Grace Road watching the v good Illingworth side there

RE that ashes series: after a draw at Lords and wins at OT and TB, England just had to avoid defeat at Leeds to win the series and regain the ashes. Of course they had that emphatic win and then a draw in the last test.

191 for Geoffrey out of a 436 total at Leeds. Oz then all out 103 (as you say 5 for Botham + 4 for Mike Handricks ) and 248 AO following on (Hendrick bagging another 4). Mike Brearley was Geoffrey's opening partner and generally reckoned to be a very top captain.

I loved Elvis' early music but he'd become something much different by then and not in my musical compass - folk rock era for me.

[arise_sir_charge]

I see.

Where were you when you found out about the 100th 100 then?

[beddie]

Gold radio has been wonderful this morning playing a continuous hour of some of Elvis’s records.

[mikeS]

Was it the Test where Boycott was at the crease every day of the five day Test?
Seem to recall there was a Test that series where he batted on every day.

[Herts Clarets]

Was it the Test where Boycott was at the crease every day of the five day Test?
Seem to recall there was a Test that series where he batted on every day.

No, it just felt like that

[fatboy47]

Of all the god-forsaken dead-and-alive holes to end up in, I was spending the week at Whitley Bay.

Not only that... I was in a caravan with the future wife's extended family. The highlight for one ageing uncle was the discovery of a local butcher that sold unbleached tripe... It was cold, windy, cloudy and rained.

I had to play Bingo in the on site club and listen to some tattered hag trying to sing "Paper Roses".
One night I managed to scarper to the dog track at Byker, only to blow my budget for the rest of the week.

I didn't like Boycott, so was rather hoping he'd fail.

[beeholeclaret]

The 3rd Test against Australia had just completed at Headingley, with Geoff Boycott scoring his 100th Hundred, and one I.T.Botham taking 5/21 as England won by an Innings and 85 runs. The Space Shuttle had just taken it's first flight into the atmosphere, but it was also the day Elvis Presley died.

it was one of those days that people remember where they were, and what they were doing, like the JFK assassination, Princess Diana's death, 9/11 and I suspect Michael Jackson's passing ..

Where were you and what do you remember of that day ?

I was working at an accountants on Bank Parade Burnley. I got news that I had flunked my A levels and not got the grades required to go on and make my millions! A colleague told me “it could be worse you could be Elvis” and proceeded to inform me of the sad news.

Then he asked me to brew up for all the staff and go into town and get pies and cakes from Oddies.

Those were the days.

[Clarets4me]

Not sure that the space shuttle flew until the early 80's .....unless you are referring to an unmanned test flight

Yes, the first Test glide from atmosphere down to Edwards Air Force base on 12th August 1977 ...

[Clarets4me]

Re: Jacko’s death , hardly a “ remember where you were” day surely ?

Not for me either, I was trying to be " inclusive " ...

[TheFamilyCat]

I clearly remember watching Boycott’s ton , incredible achievement . I’d no idea Elvis died same day but remember him lying in state thinking how young he looked .

Re: Jacko’s death , hardly a “ remember where you were” day surely ?

Funnily enough Jackson's death was a "remember where you were day for me". We'd been camping in the Lakes (I guess just before having the internet on phons was standard. We were on our way home, on the A591 between Keswick and Ambleside and I got a load of text messages with Michael Jackson jokes. Realised something must have happened so switched the radio on to find out.

[Foreverly Claret]

Remember it really well and lots of associated things.

I was 32 and I worked for a pensions / life assurance company in Leeds .I had been asked to work in Nottingham for a couple of weeks because my counterpart at the Nottingham branch was off with a nervous breakdown .I was staying at a pub in the City centre but my aunt lived on the outskirts in Ilkeston and I used to go there most nights and we'd go to their local pub which just happened to be Brian Clough's local .I'd met Brian previously through business and it was good to have a pint with him BUT on the way back into Nottingham on the bus the conductor told me about Elvis...so that's where I heard the news ...on the top deck of a bus in Nottingham .

When I got back to the hotel / pub there was a message for me to ring home. My eldest daughter was in Seacroft Hospital in Leeds for tests and she had been diagnosed with pulmonary stenosis...she was 6...she's now 51 has three great kids and she's financial controller of a major electrical group over here ( West Yorks ).She's coping well with the stenosis .Brian's long gone ; so is my aunt and so is the guy I was standing in for.

I'm counting my blessings and I'm looking fwd. to seeing the lads wallop Hull tonight .Leave here at 4 ; tea at Spoons in Tod ; meet my little brother for a couple of pints in the Fanzone and drink a toast to the King .

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