Looks like the Kings Road is full of Chelsea ! Champions League 

Great photo. So many memories of that stretch of road. Trying to think of all the watering holes.....

The Imperial, La Rueda, the CIU Club, The Adelaide, the Beer Engine, Come the Revolution by the Bridge. What was the pub on the corner front left ( just out of shot), and what was the name of the pub on the right before the petrol station before it became a Thai place?

Ps This pic is taken from the flats above the shops. We looked at buying one of these in 2002 ( above a fish restaurant but no outside space or parking), sometimes wish we’d pulled the trigger.

Remember when there was a good time to be had on this stretch on a Friday night. Happy memories.

1 hour ago, Ewell CFC said:

Great photo. So many memories of that stretch of road. Trying to think of all the watering holes.....

The Imperial, La Rueda, the CIU Club, The Adelaide, the Beer Engine, Come the Revolution by the Bridge. What was the pub on the corner front left ( just out of shot), and what was the name of the pub on the right before the petrol station before it became a Thai place?

Ps This pic is taken from the flats above the shops. We looked at buying one of these in 2002 ( above a fish restaurant but no outside space or parking), sometimes wish we’d pulled the trigger.

Remember when there was a good time to be had on this stretch on a Friday night. Happy memories.

From memory, and old pub names. Starting at the railway bridge: Nell Gwynne, Wheatsheaf, Adelaide, Imperial, Working men's club (Just off the Kings Road), Hand and Flower, can't remember the name of the pub on the corner, Duke or Earl of something, Caernarvon?, just before the road bends round to the right, and the Pelican, or maybe the Princess Royal, think it was called both of these at some point.

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50 minutes ago, MKBlue said:

From memory, and old pub names. Starting at the railway bridge: Nell Gwynne, Wheatsheaf, Adelaide, Imperial, Working men's club (Just off the Kings Road), Hand and Flower, can't remember the name of the pub on the corner, Duke or Earl of something, Caernarvon?, just before the road bends round to the right, and the Pelican, or maybe the Princess Royal, think it was called both of these at some point.

Bloody hell, you two have got good memories !The Palmerston pub was out of shot on the left. 

Friendly banter

Cheers gents. Palmerston and Hand and Flower went brain dead over. 

Used to like the Rose round the corner by Imperial Square, with the old Roller parked up opposite the Gasworks Club for decades.

We played Forest, cup replay 97 I think. My big boss was a Nottingham based Chelsea fan arranged to meet him at the Adelaide ( when he went he used to drink round the Broadway so new ,territory for him)

It had a scary clientele back then- he was waiting outside for half an hour before I bowled up.

” No way was I ordering a drink with my accent’

 

 

 

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51 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

Bloody hell, you two have got good memories !The Palmerston pub was out of shot on the left. 

Cheers mate, the Palmerston was the one that slipped my mind, knew it had something to do with a toff.

18 minutes ago, Ewell CFC said:

Cheers gents. Palmerston and Hand and Flower went brain dead over. 

Used to like the Rose round the corner by Imperial Square, with the old Roller parked up opposite the Gasworks Club for decades.

The Rose used to be very popular with blues from our part of the world.

53 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

Bloody hell, you two have got good memories !The Palmerston pub was out of shot on the left. 

Surprised I could remember any of 'em, seeing as I've been rat arsed in every one at some point over the last 40 or so years.

4 hours ago, Backbiter said:

BT Sport recently reran this classic, which I watched this morning with my son, who was born 3 years after the game was played.

Fabulous game, and worth watching for the red card John Spencer didn't get (around 3m50s) and the blatant pen Spuds weren't given (7m15s)!!

Watched that game on Saturday night and agree Spencer's kick even then should have been a red card.

Great goal he scored too .

Some game.

From a Gooners  site , which made me laugh even more,  talk about lack.if self awareness !

15 minutes ago, erskblue said:

Watched that game on Saturday night and agree Spencer's kick even then should have been a red card.

Great goal he scored too .

Some game.

Yikes ! At least Spencer got the ball !

12 hours ago, Boyne said:

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2020/04/06/honoured-guests---the-story-of-chelsea-s-wartime-players--includ

An interesting article about football in WW2. I hadn't realised that Matt Busby had played for Chelsea during the war but then there were a lot of players who made guest appearances for teams.

Cheers mate. Never knew that.

22 hours ago, Boyne said:

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2020/04/06/honoured-guests---the-story-of-chelsea-s-wartime-players--includ

An interesting article about football in WW2. I hadn't realised that Matt Busby had played for Chelsea during the war but then there were a lot of players who made guest appearances for teams.

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2020/04/07/honoured-guests---part-two---the-story-of-chelsea-s-wartime-play?cardIndex=0-0

Here's part 2.

 

v Millwall at Wembley 7th April 1945.

A crowd of 90,000 saw it !                                         

Including some distinguished guests.

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https://www.chelseafc.com/en/about-chelsea/history/key-matches/key-match14

• History, posted originally on official site Jan 2018.

1944 and 1945 Football League South Cup finals

The Pensioners’ first cup final for 29 years meant that, as pre-war, Chelsea ‘will be discussed wherever football is a topic,‘ asserted the Lancashire Evening Post on 4 April 1944. ‘Arsenal may have been the glamour team, but Chelsea were everybody’s favourite.’

However the highlight of the day would prove to be meeting US General Dwight D Eisenhower (pictured below) beforehand, for Charlton lifted the cup following a 3-1 victory. There would be better luck when Birrell’s men returned the following season on 7 April 1945, Millwall the victims on a grand occasion that easily compared to any FA Cup final.

The 1944 League South Cup game had been attended by 85,000, produced a record gate of £26,000, of which £12,000 was taken by the government in Entertainment Tax. Even that figure, a record for any sporting occasion during wartime, was exceeded by the 1945 final. Total receipts exceeded £29,000, with £13,300 going to the tax man – the biggest ever contribution from a sporting event.

An extraordinary £30,000 was returned to people who had applied – unsuccessfully – for tickets for the event (Chelsea were allocated 800 standing and 800 seated). However the only match of the year at Wembley was not played for charity: Chelsea and Millwall each pocketed £4,000. The players were each paid £2.

Oddly, Chelsea wore red, and Millwall white as opposed to the familiar blue of both, and were greeted by the Chelsea-supporting King George VI in his uniform of Admiral of the Fleet. Up in the stands were the Queen in a blue ensemble with a beige fur and the young Princess Elizabeth in her ATS uniform, attending her first club football match.

Although Millwall drew the ‘lucky’ no.1 dressing room, ‘everything today is in [Chelsea’s] favour,’ commented the Daily Worker on the morning of the game. ‘Their defence is sounder, their forwards are all potential match-winners… Their wing-halves, the most important players in any team, have all the experience and stamina necessary.

‘On the other hand,’ the newspaper continued, ‘Chelsea are… Chelsea. Last year they were favourites. In five minutes they were one up and storming the Charlton goal eager for more. But the old Stamford Bridge fever seized them when they were on top and brimful of confidence, and they faded away.’ Not so a year later, despite having the same half-back line.

Skipper Johnny Harris was one of eight guest Pensioners, the others being regulars George Wardle (Exeter City), and Danny Winter (Bolton), Ian Black (Aberdeen), George Hardwick (Middlesbrough) and John McDonald (Bournemouth and Boscombe), while Len Goulden (West Ham) and Les Smith (Brentford) were both debutants. McDonald and Wardle ensured Chelsea won 2-0, and we remain the trophy-holders to this day.

Thought it an interesting read.

Chelsea v Millwall  Wembley April 1945.

Some footage from British Pathe News.

The great John Neal at The Bridge.

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David Speedie celebrates a goal at The Bridge.

 

The photograph shows Chesterfield playing Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in October 1905 after Chesterfield had reverted to plain white shirts.

 Photograph Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News 28 October 1905.

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/

Programme cover from http://www.bounder.friardale.co.uk/Programmes/1905-06/HTML/19051021.htm

Edited April 7, 20206 yr by erskblue

Above photo: Action in our goalmouth from Fulham at the Bridge, 7th April 1984.

Don't worry, Eddie saved the shot  and we won 4-0.

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48 minutes ago, erskblue said:

David Speedie celebrates a goal at The Bridge.

Great crowd reaction there. Do you know what game?  noticed old bill in front of East stand .

V West Ham.  No date on the photo.