Boothferry Park

My ex father-in -law worked as a fitter there for BR too YT. Soon after receiving his 25 year service medal he was retrenched aged 58 when the works closed in the mid 60's. He was on the committee of the Darlington supporters club and loved his football.

 

That prize has already been won, they're just trying to get the runners up places.

 

Making sure? I admire your dedication.

 

Yes, I think you're correct...Without checking it might have been France vs Mexico, then on the evening dog racing was back on.

 

Edit: I wasn't at the White City game. Memory playing tricks on me but I was at the England against France, Mexico and Argentina games. I was at boarding school four Tube stops from Wembley at the time.

 

Hull City is one of the few (perhaps 8?) clubs to have played a League game at White City. City played QPR there in 1962 during a rapidly aborted move by the Rs away from Loftus Road.

 

Did anybody catch the dedicated footbal bus service that I think started at Endike Lane which I caught in Hall Road (1956-59 for me)? Dropped you off near the shop in the photo (1930's) and lined up on North Road on the other side of the road for the return journey.

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The good old football specials .
I used to get the one on Noddle hill way on Bransholme in the 70 s

 

In the 60/70s it was chosen for representative games :England u23, Football League, England youth, Northern Ireland v Spain and Leeds v Spurs and a Fa cup second replay.

 

I recall that at one time in the late 1960's DQPR were going to swap grounds with Brentford and play at Griffin Park with the Bs going in the opposite direction...Obviously it never came about. I can only think that the FL said No.

 

I can only assume the designers of Brentford's new ground must have some long lasting affinity for The Dell. That section looks shocking. I don't see pubs in the corners either.

 

QPR played at White City Stadium from 1931 to 1933, and the 1962-63 season. They also hold the Football League record for number of grounds and ground moves, 13 different venues, 17 changes.


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No wonder their fans seem so traumatised

 

Is it from IKEA?

 

Is that Mexico in the yellow?

 

Bloody hell, that's the newsagents where I used to buy 5 ParkDrive (non-tipped) before home games @ B.P. Here was I thinking colour photos didn't exist in the mid-late 50s !

 

I remember catching the football special bus opposite where Farm foods now is with my grandfather in the mid 1960s and returning on it. The buses used to park opposite the North Stand car park.