TGR
Well-Known Member
bert's broken neck said:Let's rename the North Stand "The Helen's Bell End!"
Seems a good fit with the adjacent "Colin Bell Stand"!
I've got many happy memories of Helen and her bell in the old scoreboard end!
Anyone remember those days in the sixties, when the first team were away and the reserves were playing - you had to wait for the bloke to arrive at the scoreboard with the numbers, to find out how we were getting on at half time!
How things have changed on the communications front since those happy days!
Remember the 'Scoreboard Scoop'? My older brother won it once. I think he got a fiver. Be about £100 quid today.
I also remember a night match one time against Blackpool and it was so bloody cold they started a camp fire in the scoreboard end. Everyone gathered round and watched the game in front of the fire!! Imagine even thinking about that today. I remember the 'Ballet on Ice' game. It was so cold me and brother bought 2 wagon wheels and a Bovril each. We ate the wagon wheels and put the wrappers over the toes of our socks and then put our shoes back on!!
That was when they had blokes walking round the front of the staands selling refreshments.