The Forest History Thread - sponsored by I‘m Red Till Dead

Ok so perhaps we set the record for the number of managers in a Premier League season. After all that's all that really counts isn't it Sky! 😜
(There's still time for us to need another as well.)
 
I came across this amazing photo of the fans from the 1959 FA Cup Final.
Most of them would have passed on , but I wondered if anyone knew the 2 young women standing up high on the front? They possibly could be still alive if they were in their late teens early twenties.

 
Carlton Cosmo said:
I came across this amazing photo of the fans from the 1959 FA Cup Final.
Most of them would have passed on , but I wondered if anyone knew the 2 young women standing up high on the front? They possibly could be still alive if they were in their late teens early twenties.

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I think @Captain Sinister might know; he’d have been around middle-age back then?
 
Carlton Cosmo said:
I came across this amazing photo of the fans from the 1959 FA Cup Final.
Most of them would have passed on , but I wondered if anyone knew the 2 young women standing up high on the front? They possibly could be still alive if they were in their late teens early twenties.

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This photo crops up from time to time and is a great snapshot of a different age. Don’t quote me on this, but I thiiiiink the Evening Post might once have tracked the two ladies down for a feature, but if so that would’ve been a good few years ago now.
 
You won't see me in that photo. I was at Aunt Ada's watching on the only TV in the family, mainly because we had only been able to get TV in most of Norfolk since 1955 when ITV started which had caused them to build a mast near Norwich.
 
I was still in the womb, about 4 inches long at the time. I could probably just open and close my hands. I wouldn't have been able to hear the game but perhaps I felt the vibrations as my dad jumped and shouted when Forest scored. (I'd like to think so anyway) Dad was a Derby fan but he was cheering us in that game. I may have celebrated the goals with a finger jive, but I doubt it. :LOL:
 
I'm Red Till Dead said:
I just came across a nice piece on Billy Walker in the Mail from 2018 -

Forgotten Hero: Billy Walker won the FA Cup as a player, then as a manager with two different clubs (24 years apart!)
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Love this part of the article from when he left Sheffield Wednesday. Especially the remarks of the magistrate.

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Captain Sinister said:
Larry wouldn’t get into a medium.. obviously fake.
Obviously a scam.
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I suspect you are correct, you do see odd things like this on eBay and I suspect it is for money laundering as you will often see sales gone through at silly prices.
This one looks more the part
www.ebay.co.uk

Larry Lloyd Matchworn Nottingham Forest League Cup Final Shirt | eBay UK

This is Larry Lloyds official matchworn shirt from Nottingham Forest s historic 1979 League cup final win against Southampton at Wembley. Very collectable item from one of Nottingham Forest legandary players.
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(Sports Argus, Saturday, April 28, 1951)​
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Sure as eggs are eggs. Peter Taylor, of Coventry City. pictured above, will remember F A. Cup Final day of 1950-51. It afforded him his first chance as a goalkeeper in League football after five years of understudying, writes Charles Matheson.

That hard-as-nails automaton, Alf Wood, made 261 consecutive appearances in League and Cup for the Bantams. He was left out of the side at Luton this afternoon to make room for Taylor. And Alf was not backward in coming forward to wish him luck.

Peter the patient deserves a big hand. He has been as cheerful as he has been loyal in playing second fiddle for so long.

Let it be said, though, that if Peter's role has denied him the glamour of glorious achievement in action he has his share of personal glamour. He's a tall, fair-haired good-looker, and so comely, that he has been described as the film star of Highfield Road. Is single, too.

Originally a centre-forward, Taylor assisted the Christchurch team of his native Nottingham, had a short spell with Nottingham Forest as an amateur and joined Coventry City in the summer of 1946. While completing his apprenticeship as a bricklayer he trained with the Forest. He’s been living in Coventry since the start of last season. He will be 23 in July.
 
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I'm Red Till Dead said:
(Sports Argus, Saturday, April 28, 1951)​
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Sure as eggs are eggs. Peter Taylor, of Coventry City. pictured above, will remember F A. Cup Final day of 1950-51. It afforded him his first chance as a goalkeeper in League football after five years of understudying, writes Charles Matheson.

That hard-as-nails automaton, Alf Wood, made 261 consecutive appearances in League and Cup for the Bantams. He was left out of the side at Luton this afternoon to make room for Taylor. And Alf was not backward in coming forward to wish him luck.

Peter the patient deserves a big hand. He has been as cheerful as he has been loyal in playing second fiddle for so long.

Let it be said, though, that if Peter's role has denied him the glamour of glorious achievement in action he has his share of personal glamour. He's a tall, fair-haired good-looker, and so comely, that he has been described as the film star of Highfield Road. Is single, too.

Originally a centre-forward, Taylor assisted the Christchurch team of his native Nottingham, had a short spell with Nottingham Forest as an amateur and joined Coventry City in the summer of 1946. While completing his apprenticeship as a bricklayer he trained with the Forest. He’s been living in Coventry since the start of last season. He will be 23 in July.​
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Not sure how many players are described as comely and a good-looker these days! Slightly disappointed he isn’t referred to as a custodian…
 
Ian Moore Gone Little said:
I dunno, I think I might have seen custodian in the early 70s when I first started reading things about football…
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I guess it's possible some still used it then.

I hahve to say I have loved reading some of the early language used in the match descriptions, like capturing the flag for early goals, breaching citadels and similar.
 
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