Blues in Failsworth

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manclad

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City boys we are here,sh*g your women and drink yo
Me and the wife took our 1 year old grandson out for a stroll down to Morrisons café. As we were walking down Westminster Road (towards Woodhouses) I glanced to my left and lo and behold a full height flagstaff,complete with not one but two full size City flags blowing briskly in this afternoons stiff breeze.
Whomever you are,whether on this website or not,I salute you sir/madam for keeping the Blue Flag(s) flying proudly above the Failsworth skyline.
 
manclad said:
Me and the wife took our 1 year old grandson out for a stroll down to Morrisons café. As we were walking down Westminster Road (towards Woodhouses) I glanced to my left and lo and behold a full height flagstaff,complete with not one but two full size City flags blowing briskly in this afternoons stiff breeze.
Whomever you are,whether on this website or not,I salute you sir/madam for keeping the Blue Flag(s) flying proudly above the Failsworth skyline.
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BARRY Foy ? Has to be..
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
Willow Tavern has a very good supporters branch in Failsworth. Plenty of blues in Failsworth all the rags are in Moston.
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Spot on - that is where my wife is from.
Wonder how many live in Stretford? I am from Gorse Hill - a stone's throw from the swamp.
 
We are all ex Failsworth , all Blues ! we lived at first on Frank St then moved over to Ogden Rd near St Mary’s, my Uncle Tommy lived on Westminster Rd , he’s since passed away , his Lad Tony also a Big Blue I think still lives in the area, our kid Sean now lives in Royton ,
 
BufordUSABlue said:
Lived on Clive Road as a kid and I remember Failsworth being blue then, my dear old departed dad was the exception of course ;-()
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I grew up in Failsworth and when I was a kid it was pretty much rag territory. It was the time of the Busby Babes, Munich & just afterwards and most kids I knew had rag shirts. At my primary school there were only 3 of us Blues, as I recall. We were thin on the ground in those days but as the years went on we managed to increase, mainly due to Joe Mercer & Big Mal. By the mid 70's we were very much in the majority in my iocal.
An earlier poster mentioned Barry Foy - apart from being a big Blue he was a bloody good footballer in his younger days.
 
Indaparkside said:
Not Margaret is she still going
Now you’ve married her won’t tell you about all the good times lord lane locals had with her behind the windmill;)
Only joking pal it was @Tim of the Oak who told me about her
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She wishes she could go but traveling from NZ for the last 40+ years would have been a tad expensive.
We know Lord Lane and the Windmill well as her mother (now deceased) and brother and sister live around there.
Perhaps the Margaret Tim was thinking about was the one who married my cousin.
 
Failsworth has a lot of Blues. The Willow Tavern is a supporters club and runs a double decker bus to the stadium on matchdays.
 
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