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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#2381 Post by Opsboi » Mon Sep 20, 2021 4:39 pm

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OK sticking with football this is the only place I have ever been to a football match and that was just once. Taken about 1962. Famous team.

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#2382 Post by Opsboi » Mon Sep 20, 2021 4:40 pm

Do you mean you were taken to the match in 62?

Or the pic?

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#2383 Post by Woody » Mon Sep 20, 2021 5:00 pm

Told you it was Old Trafford =)) =)) =))
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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#2384 Post by Ex-Ascot » Mon Sep 20, 2021 5:12 pm

Opsboi wrote:
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Do you mean you were taken to the match in 62?

Or the pic?
Probably taken there in 62. My school was right by it with the
name of the pitch.
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#2385 Post by FD2 » Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:02 pm

Accrington Stanley? My only game was Liverpool v Leicester when I was 13. He was a great supporter from when he was a kid there. As we had lived in Plymouth, Gosport and Chatham then finally Bath there weren't any 'big' teams close by.

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#2386 Post by Opsboi » Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:03 pm

Famous team...

Bon Accord, who lost 36-0 to Arbroath in the Scottish Cup in 1885

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#2387 Post by FD2 » Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:05 pm

Ah - I see the photo now. Soggy Bottom Wanderers?

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#2388 Post by FD2 » Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:51 pm

Is that a steep hill with something on top? Did Glastonbury have a team?

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#2389 Post by DBx » Tue Sep 21, 2021 12:00 am

Using local knowledge I would confirm FD2's guess at Accrington Stanley. It's their Peel Park stadium which they were using until they went bust in the mid 60's after losing their place in the League.

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#2390 Post by Ex-Ascot » Tue Sep 21, 2021 4:44 am

FD2 has it. Accrington Stanley. I went to Peel Park primary school. FD2 on the stand.
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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#2391 Post by FD2 » Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:10 am

Thanks Ex-A. That was supposed to be a little leg pull because when I went through Accrington with my parents as a youngster I remembered it as being much more built up and poor old Accrington Stanley has been the butt of too many jokes! I hadn't realised it was/is quite rural. We were visiting relatives down in Farnworth and Haslingden and had a drive out to see the area.

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#2392 Post by om15 » Tue Sep 21, 2021 6:01 am

I think that is the Portland road, looking north from Portland towards Weymouth.

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#2393 Post by FD2 » Tue Sep 21, 2021 7:40 am

I thought you might get that one om15! A little further round:


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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#2394 Post by om15 » Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:37 am

Thanks FD2, bit further away from home, (for me anyway), I think nearly everybody in aviation has spent time here,
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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#2395 Post by om15 » Wed Sep 22, 2021 7:38 am

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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#2396 Post by John Hill » Wed Sep 22, 2021 8:42 am

I am not sure where it is as I think they moved it!
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#2397 Post by om15 » Fri Sep 24, 2021 5:38 pm

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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#2398 Post by ian16th » Fri Sep 24, 2021 5:58 pm

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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#2399 Post by om15 » Fri Sep 24, 2021 7:34 pm

No.
We are in an aviation town, Pitza Hut originated here and the red Indian (can I use that term?) is to commemorate something.

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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#2400 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sat Sep 25, 2021 8:36 am

The Keeper of the Plains is a 13.4 metres Cor-Ten steel sculpture by Kiowa-Comanche artist Blackbear Bosin. It stands at the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas rivers in Wichita, Kansas adjacent to the Mid-America All-Indian Center.
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