45 minutes ago, bluehaze said:

Back in the day every seventeen year old went through a phase of drinking light and lager all the froth would stick to your bumfluff. Can you still get light ale in pubs ? '' What would you like to eat sir?'', '' I'll have the Celeriac Risotto with toasted buckwheat on a bed of glazed aubergine and chanterelle mushrooms, '' And to drink ?'' '' Two bottles of light ale please squire''.

Bout right. The logic was you might get slightly more than a pint if you were lucky.

From light and lager I graduated to bottles of Holsten Pils and sometimes Pernod and Black.

Was never entirely comfortable with Holsten seeing as they sponsored Spurs

45 minutes ago, Ewell CFC said:

Bout right. The logic was you might get slightly more than a pint if you were lucky.

From light and lager I graduated to bottles of Holsten Pils and sometimes Pernod and Black.

Was never entirely comfortable with Holsten seeing as they sponsored Spurs

My old man was a work hard play hard Paddy and Pernod is the only drink that gave him a hangover after drinking it on my brother's birthday lethal stuff.

Says on the picture that it was taken at the Bridge. Don't know where in the ground though.  Looks like a milkman in the crowd so the horse could belong to him. Or it was used by the local Sunlight Laundry. 

 

7 hours ago, Ewell CFC said:

From light and lager I graduated to bottles of Holsten Pils and sometimes Pernod and Black.

A couple of friends I have both about two years older still occasionally drink Pernod and Black, it's always fun and games with any younger bar staff as they rarely recognise it.

6 hours ago, Boyne said:

Says on the picture that it was taken at the Bridge. Don't know where in the ground though.  Looks like a milkman in the crowd so the horse could belong to him. Or it was used by the local Sunlight Laundry. 

 

Possibly access point side of old east stand to the shed end.

Turnstile price, extra large for Horse's-

Adults 1/-, Boys 6d, Horses 3d

Man in hat possible programme seller?

Edited July 30, 20187 yr by Nitro

1 hour ago, Strider6003 said:

A couple of friends I have both about two years older still occasionally drink Pernod and Black, it's always fun and games with any younger bar staff as they rarely recognise it.

When I first met my Mrs 30 years ago, she always drank Pernod and black, If I remember rightly a lot of the 80's night club birds drank that.

52 minutes ago, Nitro said:

Possibly access point side of old east stand to the shed end.

Turnstile price, extra large for Horse's-

Adults 1/-, Boys 6d, Horses 3d

Man in hat possible programme seller?

Thanks. Good points about the location and the man in the hat possibly being a programme seller. Have found this picture of a programme seller and there are similarities. 

15 minutes ago, chi blue said:

When I first met my Mrs 30 years ago, she always drank Pernod and black, If I remember rightly a lot of the 80's night club birds drank that.

And those chaps would have been drinking in the 80s though don't recall any women drinking it.

2 hours ago, Strider6003 said:

A couple of friends I have both about two years older still occasionally drink Pernod and Black, it's always fun and games with any younger bar staff as they rarely recognise it.

Was in a pub a while a go with a group and someone wanted a gin and bitter lemon, the young bar staff didn't have a clue what a bitter lemon was!!!

1 hour ago, Strider6003 said:

And those chaps would have been drinking in the 80s though don't recall any women drinking it.

Must of been the dodgy clubs I went to back in the day, the birds were a bit ropey, they seemed to look better as the night went on though!!

 

13 minutes ago, chi blue said:

Must of been the dodgy clubs I went to back in the day, the birds were a bit ropey, they seemed to look better as the night went on though!!

Don't worry you are not alone, I'm sure I recall that scenario too.

10 hours ago, bluehaze said:

My old man was a work hard play hard Paddy and Pernod is the only drink that gave him a hangover after drinking it on my brother's birthday lethal stuff.

Mid 80s drank Pernod and Black tried it with Lemonade and also Coke! Disgusting colour when mixed with Coke but tasted ok. 

Reminds me of a drinking game of how long can you hold a shot of Baileys in your mouth once you sip a shot of lime cordial. 

4 minutes ago, Richard P said:

Reminds me of a drinking game of how long can you hold a shot of Baileys in your mouth once you sip a shot of lime cordial. 

I'm glad I passed on that one.

3 hours ago, Strider6003 said:

I'm glad I passed on that one.

It’s funny but you need a bucket.

17 hours ago, Boyne said:

Says on the picture that it was taken at the Bridge. Don't know where in the ground though.  Looks like a milkman in the crowd so the horse could belong to him. Or it was used by the local Sunlight Laundry. 

 

Brilliant !

13 hours ago, Boyne said:

Thanks. Good points about the location and the man in the hat possibly being a programme seller. Have found this picture of a programme seller and there are similarities. 

My programme collection met a grisly end.

When I left home and moved into a flat I gave a couple of boxes of them to a mate to look after- he stuck them in his shed- a few years down the line I moved to somewhere with more storage space- went to retrieve them- mildue had set in.

Gutted.....

 

8 hours ago, Ewell CFC said:

My programme collection met a grisly end.

When I left home and moved into a flat I gave a couple of boxes of them to a mate to look after- he stuck them in his shed- a few years down the line I moved to somewhere with more storage space- went to retrieve them- mildue had set in.

Gutted.....

 

I've lost a lot of Chelsea stuff over the years but managed to keep hold of my programmes here's some mainly from 79-82.

 

@bluehaze I had just a few yet good ones, the match against Liverpool that put us into the Champions League and the final of the Cup Winners Cup yet mold at an old flat 4 years ago destroyed them unfortunately,

My programmes from the 80's and early 90's are still in my parents loft, I moved out in 92 and haven't seen them since!! (probably knackered now) Clearing out garage last weekend and programmes from the 2000's onwards are still okay in a sealed plastic box. I haven't bought a programme though for about 10 years. Just buy my CFC UK fanzine these days, "it's only a pound"

Not sure of the date, 1920s maybe?

Used to send away for Chelsea programme bundles advertised in Shoot ! magazine when I was a young Chelsea fan back in the late 1970s.

Goodness knows how much I sent away back then and I'm sure it was in the form of postal orders.

. I'm sure it was  £2 or £3 for say 20 Chelsea home programmes over various or even single seasons.

Chelsea 3 Tottenham 2, League Cup Semi-Final 1st leg, 22 December 1971  

Our goals.

'The King of Stamford Bridge', Ossie, Chris Garland and John Hollins (pen)

13 hours ago, bluehaze said:

I've lost a lot of Chelsea stuff over the years but managed to keep hold of my programmes here's some mainly from 79-82.

 

A lot of my collection I was given to by a mate who went from being Chelsea nuts to couldn’t give a toss. Like others I’ve always been a bit laisse fare about programmes- preferred the fanzines a bit later on- who remembers Bates’s propaganda sheet Bridge News that was sent in the post to members?

Along similar lines a mate donated me his soul music collection when he went New Romantic in about 82. No complaints this end! 

Edit: Who remembers the Supporters Club Branches that sprouted up all over the country, mainly I guess that fans could share lifts, organise coaches etc?

In the programmes- probably slightly pre Bates- they used to display a list of wherever they were- new ones that had opened up and so on.

There were the obvious like Slough and Basingstoke, and many others scattered across the land....

Edited August 1, 20187 yr by Ewell CFC

3 hours ago, Ewell CFC said:

A lot of my collection I was given to by a mate who went from being Chelsea nuts to couldn’t give a toss. Like others I’ve always been a bit laisse fare about programmes- preferred the fanzines a bit later on- who remembers Bates’s propaganda sheet Bridge News that was sent in the post to members?

Along similar lines a mate donated me his soul music collection when he went New Romantic in about 82. No complaints this end! 

Like you I preferred the fanzines yet other mates would give me the odd program.

A funny experience I had was living down under with no job or work visa, a child on the way and feeling rough.

I went to the local library out of boredom and found a number of natural health books and started reading them. Eventually went to some local therapists and in talking to them one of them, He said, 'how do you know all this?'

I replied, 'It's funny you got some really good books down the local library....'

My ex, added, 'Yeah and he's read all of them, loads of them!'

He paused thinking and said,

'Ah one of my colleagues recently moved on, I'm now thinking he left all of his books at the local library.'

It made me wonder what happened to the chap, couldn't make it work or just some other personal crisis.

 

On 31/07/2018 at 18:00, bluehaze said:

I've lost a lot of Chelsea stuff over the years but managed to keep hold of my programmes here's some mainly from 79-82.

 

I've every home prog since 1956 & around 103 short of every away.