When was the last time anyone saw cricket wickets chalked on a wall in the summer? Growing up in the 70s we were always in the local school yard if it had rained and the field was muddy. Never see any kids playing sport now unless their parents...
….on this day in 1975, I started a temporary summer holiday job in the Civil Service. I was waiting for my A Level results, was no longer playing for LFC, was toying with the idea of going to university.
I left that job 41 years later, I met my...
I thought someone else would also be in the know!
Great time had watching all 3 bands that came after the short lived venture of the Crucial three.
What an exciting time to be young and into local music in the late 70s/80s even if the rest of...
RIP Joey Jones. ❤
Old family friend of my dad's. Spent many happy days at Joey's as a kid. A good man.
My dad saw him not so long ago, still remembered my dad was a big blue, despite being in the later stages of dementia and gave him the...
….played 5-a-side myself in The Rock around that time. Great Evertonian called Dave Wiggins also involved as we worked together around then, sadly Dave passed in the last few years but he was well known in EFC fan community and was a very decent...
I played 5-a-side every week in the mid 1980s not far from there, in the Rock Centre Church Hall on Whitefield Road. Probably fitter now, and slimmer, than I was then. I blame the ale.
….i was always playing football or in Margaret St baths, so no surprise I picked up a verruca. Remember having to go the doctors every Saturday morning to get a bit more cut out with his knife until he eventually got to the root and it...