Up the Swanee 2

[ironking]

Hillman made Avengers,Imps and Sunbeams Allegro was British Leyland!

Agree with everything else though.

[Deereyme66]

I always associate Allegro’s with Austin (yes I know it was still BL) and Marina’s with Morris. Both sounded good. Both quickly turned in to rusting heaps of crap!

[cassidystash]

SS24 wrote:-
“Pugh & Wilson are the best young players we’ve got yet ones been released and the other is almost never mentioned”

Not even close IMO. I have no great hopes that any of our youngsters seen so far will make the grade (and, yes, I hope I’m wrong) but Pugh was well down the list in terms of ability and Wilson didn’t stand out at Scarborough. Lewis & Moore-Billam look most likely to me.

[lesgeo]

No faith in Cribb and Gallimore?

[cassidystash]

Both better than Pugh.

[MK Iron]

Would be happy to have any 2 from Moore-Billam, Gallimore, Cribb or Shrimpton in the side at any one time. If it’s 3 or 4 of them we will have a problem and it’s unfair on the lads themselves.

Wilson probably needs a season as an impact sub. For Young and Foster it’s more difficult, centre backs and keepers need to be exceptional to hack it as teenagers so should be injury back ups at best. Lewis has shown enough to back up O’Malley at left back/left wing back.

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[Just Iron]

Gallimore the best for me. Don’t need to wait for him to develop physically .. he’s already a beast. Confident and reasonable skill level and decent positional sense. Cribb and Moore Billam .. both have good futures but a bit behind Gallimore. A good experienced central mid to add in and I won’t be too unhappy with midfield. A pity General Grant wasn’t a couple of years younger.

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[SST]

I haven’t seen anything from Shrimpton to suggest he is anywhere near the level. Hope I’m wrong, but I would have preferred to keep Pugh.

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[TwoWrights]

Deereyme66 wrote:

I always associate Allegro’s with Austin (yes I know it was still BL) and Marina’s with Morris. Both sounded good. Both quickly turned in to rusting heaps of crap!

Rumour has it that awaywego has a Y reg Austin Ambassador. 🙂

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Awaywego

[Awaywego]

Ford popular 100E for me. Could fit 5 adults and 3 kids comfortably,well sort of.

[TwoWrights]

TwoWrights wrote:

Deereyme66 wrote:

I always associate Allegro’s with Austin (yes I know it was still BL) and Marina’s with Morris. Both sounded good. Both quickly turned in to rusting heaps of crap!

Rumour has it that awaywego has a Y reg Austin Ambassador.

Found him.

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[ironfromafar]

apologies for my foopar re the Allegro … got it mixed up with another less than sort after vehicular commodity.. my analogy on SUFC and the scrapped Allegro remains the same and at this exact point in time our football club appears also to be going to the knackers yard same way as many other Brit traditions and some nostalgia from my past growing up in Scunny.

The orange Puch maxi moped
My Ford Pop Daytona in yellow of course swapped for a Saab 900 turbo with 260k on the clock
Daily Newspapers
Phones in Houses
The Iron scoring a goal n winning a game
Garbos night club The Britainia, Pickwicks and The Queens on Rowland road open at 6am and the Ironstone wharf in Gunness
The Old Showground Donny rd end
Morning Milk deliveries (do they still happen)
A full tank of fuel
Wilsons Chippy frod rd Proper fish n chips for 2 quid and a Jalfrezi takeaway for brekkie

PLEASE ADD MORE

After 22 years away my daughter informs me ..Dad you wouldnt recognize the place !! but its still my home town and one day i hope to visit it again.

The thing i miss the most is going to the footy home n away and so sad to see the club i love in such a mess with the possibility of more woe ..heart breaking what Swann has done.

[Northumbiron]

The Furnace Arms at the bottom end of High St used to open a 6am for change of shift too.

The newsstand at Britannia Corner on a Sunday morning.

Bands on a Saturday night. Baths Hall in winter, Berkeley in summer.

Suggs, S&G and Famous Army Stores.

Library on Market Hill.

Sergeant’s Ice Cream.

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[Awaywego]

Cigarette, milk, chocolate, chewing gum machines everywhere, (never seem to get broke in) Linc’s roadcar buses to away matches, the royal for Barnsley bitter, the paper advertising boards advertising the next Scunny v whoever, The ABC on Donny road. Who was an ABC minor?.

[Northumbiron]

“We are the boys and girls well known as, the minors of the ABC….”

Me!

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Awaywego

[Awaywego]

Correct me if I’m wrong but was there a big building across donny rd which housed a YMCA, whatever it was never went in it.

[Deereyme66]

Yag House

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waltersleftfoot

[Awaywego]

Of course yag house cheers Deerey.

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[Iron-awe]

Riley’s crisps, Brumpton pop and the award winning Export Shandy. Quick Pass learn to drive top of Donny Road, 3 lessons for a fiver 1972. Got me through my test no problem plus answering highway code questions at the end of the test. ” What’s this sign sir “? ” Well it’s either uneven road ahead or a young lady sunbathing on Cleggy Beach “. 😳

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[lesgeo]

Yeah. I passed my test with QP.
Only last week, I was trying to recall the name of the trainer I had.
Came from Epworth, I think. A pal of my Dad, in fact.
Brain quietly disintegrating, here.

[MK Iron]

Remember having a summer job a Brumptoms when I was 14 or 15. One day the supervisor gave a bollocking to the forklift driver. He was about 18 or 19 and fancied himself as a bit of hard man.

Ten minutes later there was a pallet full of Export Shandy on the roof of the supervisors Morris Marina which was about a foot nearer the ground.

Happy days.

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[cassidystash]

lesgeo wrote:

Yeah. I passed my test with QP.
Only last week, I was trying to recall the name of the trainer I had.
Came from Epworth, I think. A pal of my Dad, in fact.
Brain quietly disintegrating, here.

Dave Coggan?

[Deereyme66]

Churchills learning to drive for me. Passed first time in 1984 despite my grouchy instructor telling me I’d failed the pre-test lesson. Got lucky on the test I guess!

[Deereyme66]

First car I had was an orange Marina. Shock absorbers were gone. Used to bounce like it was on a trampoline over potholes. Had to glue a metal plate under the carpet on the passenger side after discovering a massive rusting hole there. Worked though!

[lesgeo]

Thanks Cass but no.
He was late 50s or maybe older in 1969.

This is really bugging me!

[porphyra]

Dave Addlesee Les?

[Northumbiron]

Quick Pass office was opposite the players/officials entrance to the OSG just along Hendy Ave.

When I did my test I parked up in the bays there just as Kevin Keegan and Mick Atkin were coming out. KK recognised me as one of the lads you used to hang around trying to blag complementary tickets at away games, and asked me how I got on. Thumbs down 👎

It was ten years before I resat, passing the test driving an R reg Marina which Mrs NI had inherited from her dad who was a sales rep for Heinz.

Did some lovely pirouettes in it on icy roads, and of course it eventually collapsed in heap of rust whereupon we upgraded to an Escort XR3!

[Greylag]

Massarellas ice cream

[lesgeo]

Er. The only name which comes to mind for the guy at QP is perhaps, Terry???

[Iron-awe]

lesgeo wrote:

Er. The only name which comes to mind for the guy at QP is perhaps, Terry???

Guy who got me through was called Eric, he wore glasses, smoked like a twitch heap but didn’t drink alcohol. Funny the things you remember from your youth and things you can’t remember now from last week. Eric was a brilliant instructor and allowed you to crack on if you had a basic grasp of driving. All those times driving Dads Hillman Minx estate car up and down the old empty back roads of North Lincs from the age of 15 certainly gave me a head start. Different world back then.

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