Photo of Ian McKechnie and oranges

I was speaking with Mrs McKechnie a few weeks ago and Ian does not have any photos of the daft orange chucking fad back in 1966. The story still makes him chuckle and it would be great if I could get hold of a photo for him. I've tried the HDM but they have rationalised their archive and any HDM photos have been destroyed. Does anyone out there have a decent photo that I could get a print of?

Many thanks

 

Ffs. Couldn't they have at least offered them to the history centre or summat.

Let's hope you find what you're looking for.

 

Yep! They've probably binned a wealth of local history. A bit short-sighted methinks...............

 

I bet they've even binned the pics of me and my scout troupe, flipping pancakes outside Grandways.

I feel a Rutger Hauer, tears in rain, speach coming on.

 

For anyone who doesn't know the story................... two lads saw Keckers sucking an orange on the way home from training (in the days when players lived in Hull and went about on foot). They chucked a couple of oranges into his goal mouth at the next game. Their pals asked "What's that all about?" and they replied "Keckers likes oranges!". At each subsequent game more and more oranges got chucked. Eventually the ref refused to re-start a match against Wolves until 600 Jaffas were cleared from the goalmouth!

People in Hull will still spot Ian and shout across the street "Hey, Keckers! I used to throw oranges at you!"

I'm hoping to meet Ian in a few weeks to get the full story straight from the horses mouth (and give him a photo if there is one).

 

I bet they deleted the photo of me with Alan Fettis.

I have a copy so I'm going to send it to them 1000 times every day for a week. That'll teach em, the bastards.

 

And they'll have binned one of me, Pete and Jack taken when Grassington Cave Rescue Organisation got us out of Providence Pot (after 13 hours underground) in 1961.

 

Won't they have uploaded that story to their website at the time? You'd be able to get the photo off there surely.

 

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I got escorted out of the ground at Grimsby for throwing an orange at Keckers. Was worried I'd be in the paper and my mum would find out but it's still a family secret!!

 

Your secret is safe with me!

 

Not what you are looking for but good clip of Chillo Waggy and Keckers chatting.

 

Nice to see Martyn Hainstock on the film

 

There are reports tonight on city mad, that Ian passed away last night.

 

That is what it is saying on there,

Posted 10 Jun 2015 21:00
Another city legend gone
Sad News...Ian McKechnie died last night of a massive Heart Attack.

I really hope it is not true... He was one of my hero's in my early days of going to watch City.

 

Sad news now confirmed on the Beeb. I'm also watching responses on the RIP thread to see if I can find a photo.

 

I bet that thought never crossed the minds of the HDM.

Like the BBC who wiped many tapes of classic stuff.

Much of our recorded history in many areas has been lost.

 

First minute or so - Memories of the HT scores next to each letter. No wonder match programmes almost always sold out.