Recent content by Greytiger

Spring Bank was a cart track when they built the railway, so the onus has always been with KHCC to deal with it. They should have built a flyover back in the days when they had a pot to piss in, but instead they just did Hessle and Anlaby Roads and relied on Beeching to deal with Spring Bank...

Ah right, sounds like an insane arrangement, very naive. Didn’t the grebos also use Brickhouse - which was in Baker St or thereabouts? Perhaps that had closed by 1972.

The battle of Dock Street actually made the national news on radio the Monday after, and was described as skinheads vs greasers. I can't remember the year, so I'll take your word it was 72. I was 15 at the time and definitely not ITK. I've been informed since, that the gang waiting outside...

To an extent, I would agree but you could say exactly the same about Lee Bracey - and he was no hard man.

It would have to be McKechnie in goal, far from being a 'tubby morton' type, he was actually a prototype psycho. Any older readers may remember a 60s home game vs Rotherham where their centre forward made a point of always trying to block Ian's drop kick clearances. By late second half, Ian...