What a great story....

peteblue · October 13, 2019

'I'm proud my son is storing 1,000 bricks in my garden'

If Donna Heuerman looks out of her window she sees rows of bricks left by her teenage son, Jonjo.

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degsy · October 13, 2019

Fairplay to him but I'm astounded the club didn't do this.
I hope we wouldn't let them go in the skip in similar circumstances

peteblue · October 13, 2019

degsy said:
Fairplay to him but I'm astounded the club didn't do this.
I hope we wouldn't let them go in the skip in similar circumstances

My thoughts entirely. It would have been criminal to allow them to end up as hardcore. Fair play to the builders though, it was a nice touch....

stumps1878 · October 13, 2019

Great story fair play to the lad .

The binman chronicles · October 13, 2019

degsy said:
Fairplay to him but I'm astounded the club didn't do this.
I hope we wouldn't let them go in the skip in similar circumstances

They've put all the messages on a walkway at the new place so don't think the club have done much wrong in this instance.

Old Blue 2 · October 13, 2019

Wonderful.

Methuselah · October 13, 2019

To use Cockney parlance - what a diamond geezer.

Yarrgh · October 13, 2019

Well done to all involved there. Great read that. Occasionally it's nice to have some of that faith in humanity restored.

49ers · October 13, 2019

peteblue said:
My thoughts entirely. It would have been criminal to allow them to end up as hardcore. Fair play to the builders though, it was a nice touch....

Glad the club didn't get involved.
Brady and the Porno twins would probably have charged a premium.

Good for him.

This is the kind of person that deserves an OBE etc not the usual jobbing actors and politician

b-rad · October 14, 2019

Looks like the club tried to take some credit for reuniting the bricks: https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2017/august/10-august/commemorative-bricks-update

Horrible how they appear to have just given up any kind of moral responsibility though. They have put all the names in the walkway by their new stadium.
This bit from that 2017 article says it all "West Ham United was originally advised in 2015 that there was no guarantee the bricks could be saved as part of the demolition process" West Ham should have been advising the demolition company, not just passing the buck.

Jamiednm · October 14, 2019

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