droylsdenblue
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A few of the cards on the above link are photographed at Hyde Road
Hyde Road Stadium
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A few of the cards on the above link are photographed at Hyde Road
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A few of the cards on the above link are photographed at Hyde Road
I thought this was an aptly named cigarette company. CASKET cigarettes :)
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I wouldn’t be sure about that being 100% the exact colour being described. The University’s Rugby Union club have a kit very similar to the Argentina football kit in design and colour, although their club blazer’s are indeed similar to the blue of the rowing club. Wikipedia says that the rowing club “added yellow” in the mid 20th century to “distinguish themselves” from the rugby club, and doing that would explain the two different shades although the shade has ended up being very similar to Eton Blue and there is a story that in the second boat race Cambridge turned up in white shirts but Oxford had dark blue shirts and a dark blue flag. Someone suggested getting a contrasting flag to mark the boat and an Eton Blue ribbon was sourced. Whether that became the regular colour is not known, however it seems odd that the colour is seemingly never described as green-blue in historical reports, always light-blue. And it’s odd that the rugby club use the shade they do.
I would suggest that when they fixed the colour to the current shade they chose to match closely to the shade of Eton Blue due to the purported connection.
Now, when Chelsea played their first season they had a director with a connection to Eton Blue (via horse racing silks which are accurately documented) and played in such colours. It would be interesting to see if that was ever described as Cambridge Blue.
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I like the Telegraphic Address. It’s almost as if we were the only relevant football team in Manchester.
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It's become the same line by the time it reaches there, different tracks no doubt but running parallel.
kurious oranj
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The stadium was on the other side of the tracks. Where the new house have just been built.
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All trains leaving Picc to the south or east go past it, on one side or the other. It lay within the fork of tracks.
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The National Library of Scotland have a side by side map showing the exact location of the stadium https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/sid...47013&lon=-2.20869&layers=168&right=GoogleSat