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Blakenall/Goscote Memories

Tue May 09, 2017 9:11 pm

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Is that little picturesque village twinned with Chernobyl.


No , Blakenall is twinned with Le Amore............which must be somewhere in France .

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Re: In need of a club historian/ fans from the mid 1950s

Tue May 09, 2017 10:25 pm

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NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:
Is that little picturesque village twinned with Chernobyl.


No , Blakenall is twinned with Le Amore............which must be somewhere in France .



I will have you know I was born and bred in Blakenall !
Born on Mersey Road and spent most my youth on Barracks Lane
It is "Picturesque" if you get rid of the "Tat Wagons".

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Re: In need of a club historian/ fans from the mid 1950s

Tue May 09, 2017 10:38 pm

swampysaddler wrote:
Kevlar wrote:
NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:
Is that little picturesque village twinned with Chernobyl.


No , Blakenall is twinned with Le Amore............which must be somewhere in France .



I will have you know I was born and bred in Blakenall !
Born on Mersey Road and spent most my youth on Barracks Lane
It is "Picturesque" if you get rid of the "Tat Wagons".

Picturesque in more of a Pollock than Monet style...

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Re: In need of a club historian/ fans from the mid 1950s

Wed May 10, 2017 11:58 am

swampysaddler wrote:
Kevlar wrote:
NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:
Is that little picturesque village twinned with Chernobyl.


No , Blakenall is twinned with Le Amore............which must be somewhere in France .



I will have you know I was born and bred in Blakenall !
Born on Mersey Road and spent most my youth on Barracks Lane
It is "Picturesque" if you get rid of the "Tat Wagons".


I was raised in Goscote kids there used to dream of living in Blakenall,and leafy Broadstone avenue was another world.

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Re: In need of a club historian/ fans from the mid 1950s

Wed May 10, 2017 12:09 pm

NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:I was raised in Goscote. Kids there used to dream of living in Blakenall, and leafy Broadstone Avenue was another world.

I, too, was raised in Goscote before moving to the idyllic setting that is Leamore.

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Re: In need of a club historian/ fans from the mid 1950s

Wed May 10, 2017 3:04 pm

NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:
swampysaddler wrote:
Kevlar wrote:
NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:
Is that little picturesque village twinned with Chernobyl.


No , Blakenall is twinned with Le Amore............which must be somewhere in France .



I will have you know I was born and bred in Blakenall !
Born on Mersey Road and spent most my youth on Barracks Lane
It is "Picturesque" if you get rid of the "Tat Wagons".


I was raised in Goscote kids there used to dream of living in Blakenall,and leafy Broadstone avenue was another world.



My uncle used to live on Middle Crescent on Goscote.
He moved there from the leafy area of Shakespeare Crescent.

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Re: In need of a club historian/ fans from the mid 1950s

Sat May 13, 2017 6:52 am

NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:
swampysaddler wrote:
Kevlar wrote:
NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:
Is that little picturesque village twinned with Chernobyl.


No , Blakenall is twinned with Le Amore............which must be somewhere in France .



I will have you know I was born and bred in Blakenall !
Born on Mersey Road and spent most my youth on Barracks Lane
It is "Picturesque" if you get rid of the "Tat Wagons".


I was raised in Goscote kids there used to dream of living in Blakenall,and leafy Broadstone avenue was another world.

At least one of you two must have gone to Green Rock.

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Re: In need of a club historian/ fans from the mid 1950s

Sat May 13, 2017 11:21 am

shrewsbury saddler wrote:
NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:
swampysaddler wrote:
Kevlar wrote:
NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:
Is that little picturesque village twinned with Chernobyl.


No , Blakenall is twinned with Le Amore............which must be somewhere in France .



I will have you know I was born and bred in Blakenall !
Born on Mersey Road and spent most my youth on Barracks Lane
It is "Picturesque" if you get rid of the "Tat Wagons".


I was raised in Goscote kids there used to dream of living in Blakenall,and leafy Broadstone avenue was another world.

At least one of you two must have gone to Green Rock.


I did for 2 years but we then moved to Guild Avenue so I moved to Sunshine (Blakenall Heath School).

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Re: In need of a club historian/ fans from the mid 1950s

Sat May 13, 2017 11:46 am

swampysaddler wrote:I did for 2 years but we then moved to Guild Avenue so I moved to Sunshine (Blakenall Heath School).

My Alma Mater!

So we have something in common, swampy!!! :D

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Sat May 13, 2017 12:19 pm

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swampysaddler wrote:I did for 2 years but we then moved to Guild Avenue so I moved to Sunshine (Blakenall Heath School).

My Alma Mater!

So we have something in common, swampy!!! :D


Miss Evans was my teacher for a couple of years then I moved onto Mrs Walker (old bag). Tied me to the chair because I was asking a mate for a pencil sharpener.

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Re: In need of a club historian/ fans from the mid 1950s

Sat May 13, 2017 3:59 pm

swampysaddler wrote:
Pedagogue wrote:
swampysaddler wrote:I did for 2 years but we then moved to Guild Avenue so I moved to Sunshine (Blakenall Heath School).

My Alma Mater!

So we have something in common, swampy!!! :D


Miss Evans was my teacher for a couple of years then I moved onto Mrs Walker (old bag). Tied me to the chair because I was asking a mate for a pencil sharpener.


You were lucky, in our days we had it tough! :mrgreen: :wink: Think I've mentioned it before, but our gym master, right barsteward, (who thrashed my backside until it bled cus I couldn't throw myself over the gym bars), put a first year in hospital for writing in the dust on the boot of his car! And this was Wolves Tech Grammar school!

You try telling that to the kids of today, and they won't believe you! :lol: :lol: These days teachers are not allowed to put a plaster on a pupil cus it's deemed as assault! It's ridiculous, little wonder kids come away from schools with no respect, who have they got to be afraid of?

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Re: In need of a club historian/ fans from the mid 1950s

Mon May 15, 2017 7:46 am

swampysaddler wrote:
Kevlar wrote:
NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:
Is that little picturesque village twinned with Chernobyl.


No , Blakenall is twinned with Le Amore............which must be somewhere in France .



I will have you know I was born and bred in Blakenall !
Born on Mersey Road and spent most my youth on Barracks Lane
It is "Picturesque" if you get rid of the "Tat Wagons".
good on ya swampster. My mom was born on walker road and my gran worked at the Royal Oak. I could often be seen sitting outside with my Vimeo and crisps,watching the gypo's fly through the windows on a Friday and Saturday night :mrgreen:

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Re: In need of a club historian/ fans from the mid 1950s

Mon May 15, 2017 7:59 am

Ancient Moaner wrote:
swampysaddler wrote:
Pedagogue wrote:
swampysaddler wrote:I did for 2 years but we then moved to Guild Avenue so I moved to Sunshine (Blakenall Heath School).

My Alma Mater!

So we have something in common, swampy!!! :D


Miss Evans was my teacher for a couple of years then I moved onto Mrs Walker (old bag). Tied me to the chair because I was asking a mate for a pencil sharpener.


You were lucky, in our days we had it tough! :mrgreen: :wink: Think I've mentioned it before, but our gym master, right barsteward, (who thrashed my backside until it bled cus I couldn't throw myself over the gym bars), put a first year in hospital for writing in the dust on the boot of his car! And this was Wolves Tech Grammar school!

You try telling that to the kids of today, and they won't believe you! :lol: :lol: These days teachers are not allowed to put a plaster on a pupil cus it's deemed as assault! It's ridiculous, little wonder kids come away from schools with no respect, who have they got to be afraid of?
to bloody true AM, after my mom met my dad they moved to the upmarket village of clayhanger, and I was luck enough to frequent ogly hay junior school,with the most sadistic teachers in the midlands, I had board rubbers bounced of my head and my fingers stapled, I then progressed to brownills comp where I had a filing cabinet thrown at me, I was eventually expelled for hiting my geography teacher, that lasted a week and it was back to normal. Imagine if that happened today? It would end up in court or the sun newspaper :roll:

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Re: In need of a club historian/ fans from the mid 1950s

Mon May 15, 2017 9:48 am

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Ancient Moaner wrote:
swampysaddler wrote:
Pedagogue wrote:
swampysaddler wrote:I did for 2 years but we then moved to Guild Avenue so I moved to Sunshine (Blakenall Heath School).

My Alma Mater!

So we have something in common, swampy!!! :D


Miss Evans was my teacher for a couple of years then I moved onto Mrs Walker (old bag). Tied me to the chair because I was asking a mate for a pencil sharpener.


You were lucky, in our days we had it tough! :mrgreen: :wink: Think I've mentioned it before, but our gym master, right barsteward, (who thrashed my backside until it bled cus I couldn't throw myself over the gym bars), put a first year in hospital for writing in the dust on the boot of his car! And this was Wolves Tech Grammar school!

You try telling that to the kids of today, and they won't believe you! :lol: :lol: These days teachers are not allowed to put a plaster on a pupil cus it's deemed as assault! It's ridiculous, little wonder kids come away from schools with no respect, who have they got to be afraid of?
to bloody true AM, after my mom met my dad they moved to the upmarket village of clayhanger, and I was luck enough to frequent ogly hay junior school,with the most sadistic teachers in the midlands, I had board rubbers bounced of my head and my fingers stapled, I then progressed to brownills comp where I had a filing cabinet thrown at me, I was eventually expelled for hiting my geography teacher, that lasted a week and it was back to normal. Imagine if that happened today? It would end up in court or the sun newspaper :roll:

We've all got stories like that, and i think most people are glad their kids don;t get bullied by the teachers as well as the kids these days. I recall many incidents I won;t go into right now...

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Wed May 31, 2017 10:57 am

In the early 80's we had a football team in Div 4 of the Lichfield District league. Most of our players were ex grammar school types with professional jobs. Occasionallly we'd come across some rough play (King St Social, Walsall Wood springs to mind), but generally we played in the leafy environs of Shenstone, or Beacon Park Lichfield and our Sunday mornings were usually enjoyable.

In our second year we took up an invitation to join a knockout cup tournament based in Walsall. We thought it would be nice to play different teams and see how good we were against clubs from another league. Unfortunately in the first round we were drawn away at The Dolphin, Goscote.

After getting changed in the pub we immediately dispatched our wives and girlfriends to guard our Ford Capris and Ford Escort Sports. This was to be the only occasion they never saw one of our matches. As we took to the pitch there must have been at least 100 spectators at the side of the pitch, most of them armed with Rottweilers and hungry German Shepherds. We started the game well, quickly conceding 4 goals. Then some idiot on our team made the mistake of scoring a goal. I genuinely remember our Captain asking the player on the way back to the halfway line "What the f*** did you do that for?" The abuse grew from the players and fans alike, and the tackles flew in. The ref was as scared as we were and i'm sure didn't let the first half go past about 35 mins.

At half time we had a good talking to from the manager and captain, along the lines of "If we don't score again, or do any tackling we might get out of here alive". For once we followed his instructions, and conceded another 3 goals without troubling their goalie again. At the end of the game as we raced off the pitch my hand was pumped by my opposite number who said how good it was to have a friendly game for a change! God knows what their normal matches were like!

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Wed May 31, 2017 1:40 pm

Ah, the Dolphin! For 21 years, I lived in Hardy Road, right opposite that pub. Goscote holds such wonderful memories with its pleasant pastoral charm particularly when conjoined with its peaceful neighbours from the Poets' Corner Estate in Harden. :lol: :lol:

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Wed May 31, 2017 10:47 pm

Pedagogue wrote:Ah, the Dolphin! For 21 years, I lived in Hardy Road, right opposite that pub. Goscote holds such wonderful memories with its pleasant pastoral charm particularly when conjoined with its peaceful neighbours from the Poets' Corner Estate in Harden. :lol: :lol:



sos wall never served a pikey.

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Fri Jun 02, 2017 3:21 pm

NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:
Pedagogue wrote:Ah, the Dolphin! For 21 years, I lived in Hardy Road, right opposite that pub. Goscote holds such wonderful memories with its pleasant pastoral charm particularly when conjoined with its peaceful neighbours from the Poets' Corner Estate in Harden. :lol: :lol:



sos wall never served a pikey.


I recall he was having trouble getting a bunch of them out once but he gently persuaded them to leave . . . . . . . .

Blew the windows out above their heads with a shotgun !

They did not come back in a hurry :lol:

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Fri Jun 02, 2017 4:05 pm

I can remember a few skirmishes with pikey lads in Well lane chip shop as they thought it was normal behaviour to touch our girlfriends up in the queue.I could run a bit then.

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Sat Jun 03, 2017 4:31 pm

NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:I can remember a few skirmishes with pikey lads in Well lane chip shop as they thought it was normal behaviour to touch our girlfriends up in the queue.I could run a bit then.


Well Lane chippy :mrgreen:
I remember one Friday night outside there after being in the Fountain down Walsall all night.
I was having a piss in the phone box and the local drug dealer told me to "have some morals, people use that". Needless to say an argument ensued and I kicked the living daylights out of him.
Happy days :mrgreen:

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Sat Jun 03, 2017 9:21 pm

swampysaddler wrote:I was having a piss in the phone box ...

... and to think I used to use that 'phone box (for its legitimate purpose! :D ) before you converted it to a urinal! :shock:

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Sat Jun 03, 2017 9:52 pm

chunkster wrote: upmarket village of clayhanger:


Upmarket?????? I have to report that I once lived in Clayhanger from 1958 to 1964 and I wouldn't have used that term. For those that may have a little knowledge, I lived at 'Caddick House' [formally Rose Villa I understand] at the end of Church street adjacent to the mineral line than ran up to the pit at Walsall Wood. The house and grounds has long since gone and been replaced by about 20 houses. :(

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Sun Jun 04, 2017 8:16 am

NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:
Pedagogue wrote:Ah, the Dolphin! For 21 years, I lived in Hardy Road, right opposite that pub. Goscote holds such wonderful memories with its pleasant pastoral charm particularly when conjoined with its peaceful neighbours from the Poets' Corner Estate in Harden. :lol: :lol:



sos wall never served a pikey.


I went to Manor Farm and there was a guy in our year called Sos Wall. Remember him being one of the genuine hardknocks but not a bully. There were plenty of scrotes from Goscote/Harden who thought they were hard though.

There was an apocryphal story doing the rounds at the time about a family living on Shakespeare Crescent who kept a donkey in the front room. Took the floorboards up apparently.

Also enjoyed annual visits from Forest Comp. Usually just before we broke up for the summer. I remember a gang of them lobbing stones from the viaduct in Park Lime Pits. It was a lunch time and it seemed like the whole school charged down the playing fields to return fire. Happy days!

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Sun Jun 04, 2017 8:41 am

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NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:
Pedagogue wrote:Ah, the Dolphin! For 21 years, I lived in Hardy Road, right opposite that pub. Goscote holds such wonderful memories with its pleasant pastoral charm particularly when conjoined with its peaceful neighbours from the Poets' Corner Estate in Harden. :lol: :lol:



sos wall never served a pikey.


I went to Manor Farm and there was a guy in our year called Sos Wall. Remember him being one of the genuine hardknocks but not a bully. There were plenty of scrotes from Goscote/Harden who thought they were hard though.

There was an apocryphal story doing the rounds at the time about a family living on Shakespeare Crescent who kept a donkey in the front room. Took the floorboards up apparently.

Also enjoyed annual visits from Forest Comp. Usually just before we broke up for the summer. I remember a gang of them lobbing stones from the viaduct in Park Lime Pits. It was a lunch time and it seemed like the whole school charged down the playing fields to return fire. Happy days!



I think the Sos Wall is long gone but the one you mentioned is bound to be a descendant proudly carrying on the name.

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I went to Manor Farm and there was a guy in our year called Sos Wall. Remember him being one of the genuine hardknocks but not a bully. There were plenty of scrotes from Goscote/Harden who thought they were hard though.

There was an apocryphal story doing the rounds at the time about a family living on Shakespeare Crescent who kept a donkey in the front room. Took the floorboards up apparently.

Also enjoyed annual visits from Forest Comp. Usually just before we broke up for the summer. I remember a gang of them lobbing stones from the viaduct in Park Lime Pits. It was a lunch time and it seemed like the whole school charged down the playing fields to return fire. Happy days![/quote]

I went to Francis Martyn in Coalpool and had to run the gauntlet of cross country runs around Shakespeare Crescent etc, great fun being chased and bitten by vicious rabid dogs to great amusement of the owners.
On one run we noticed a commotion with many people gathered at one house so we stopped to have a look and we saw a bloke staggering out of his house with blood pouring from his head caused by . . . . . . . his pet Chimp had escaped from its cage in the house and gone beserk, jumped on his shoulders and was tearing his hair out in clumps.

Needless to say we finished that run in record time :D

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Re: Blakenall/Goscote Memories

Sun Jun 04, 2017 1:34 pm

NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:
DonningtonSaddler wrote:
NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD wrote:
Pedagogue wrote:Ah, the Dolphin! For 21 years, I lived in Hardy Road, right opposite that pub. Goscote holds such wonderful memories with its pleasant pastoral charm particularly when conjoined with its peaceful neighbours from the Poets' Corner Estate in Harden. :lol: :lol:



sos wall never served a pikey.


I went to Manor Farm and there was a guy in our year called Sos Wall. Remember him being one of the genuine hardknocks but not a bully. There were plenty of scrotes from Goscote/Harden who thought they were hard though.

There was an apocryphal story doing the rounds at the time about a family living on Shakespeare Crescent who kept a donkey in the front room. Took the floorboards up apparently.

Also enjoyed annual visits from Forest Comp. Usually just before we broke up for the summer. I remember a gang of them lobbing stones from the viaduct in Park Lime Pits. It was a lunch time and it seemed like the whole school charged down the playing fields to return fire. Happy days!



I think the Sos Wall is long gone but the one you mentioned is bound to be a descendant proudly carrying on the name.

I was at Green Rock with a John Wall from the Dolphin. I assume it was his son. Last time I saw John was over 30 years ago.He was lobbing bricks at the Knave having been barred a couple of hours earlier.

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Sun Jun 04, 2017 5:15 pm

I had the honour of being brought up in Goscote, i.e. Avon Road. My abiding memory is the 30 a side football matches on "The Green" (misnamed) in Severn Road and also the cricket contests utilising a lamppost for the wickets. Happy days, we were rough and ready but essentially, almost, harmless.

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Sun Jun 04, 2017 10:48 pm

DonningtonSaddler wrote:There was an apocryphal story doing the rounds at the time about a family living on Shakespeare Crescent who kept a donkey in the front room.

I don't know about that but a family in Goscote Lodge Crescent kept a horse in an upstairs bedroom. I actually saw it with its head out of the window or I wouldn't have believed it!

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DonningtonSaddler wrote:There was an apocryphal story doing the rounds at the time about a family living on Shakespeare Crescent who kept a donkey in the front room.

I don't know about that but a family in Goscote Lodge Crescent kept a horse in an upstairs bedroom. I actually saw it with its head out of the window or I wouldn't have believed it!


That reminds me of the old one about the woman who kept a goat in the bedroom,her husband constantly complained about the smell.Eventually she suggested that he opened the windows,he said what and let the pigeons out.

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Re: Blakenall/Goscote Memories

Mon Jun 05, 2017 8:49 am

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DonningtonSaddler wrote:There was an apocryphal story doing the rounds at the time about a family living on Shakespeare Crescent who kept a donkey in the front room.

I don't know about that but a family in Goscote Lodge Crescent kept a horse in an upstairs bedroom. I actually saw it with its head out of the window or I wouldn't have believed it!

I remember working at a house in hildicks crescent, and they had chickens under the kitchen table fenced in with chicken wire :lol: . And ther was a guy that got arrested for horse worrying. He used to work at Walsall arboretum :lol:

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