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Football Post - Saturday 04 April 1970

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Grenville 1898 said:
Great find.
Ogden's, Wills's, Churchman's, Carreras - some great tobacco and cigarette manufacturing companies there.

No doubt, some grandmother at the time smoked herself to death just so they could afford the album c. Baldrick, Blackadder Goes Forth
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Lol - reminds me of when I was a little 'un, Dad was a big smoker and used to collect the cards inside the packets of Silk Cut that had points on them like getting your Green Shield Stamps at the Co-op. Then, as it got towards Christmas, he'd get a catalogue from them where you could cash in your points for things and Dad would say "here you go, pick a present"
 
Otis Redding said:
Re: Forest Early History

Clinton Arms is now the student-dominated Orange Tree.

When I worked as a steel-fixer on the construction of Victoria Centre flats in the early-70s, I remember the place being packed on Friday lunchtimes with blokes from the site. The main attraction was the weekly lunchtime strip show they put on rather than the Shippos and the cheese and onion cobs.

I've always maintained the place should have a blue plaque above the front door......to celebrate the foundation of NFFC, not the topless barmaids and strippers I hasten to add!
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I think there is a blue plaque on the wall at first floor level (not ground floor - first floor).
 
alabamared said:
Came across this on facebook, I never realised we had a second England captain!

Tinsley Lindley (Wikpedia entry worth a read)

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I remember reading about him when the new headstone was put on his grave at Wilford Hill cemetery after a fundraising campaign. I think I later read somewhere vaguely whereabouts it is and tried to find it once when I stopped by my parents’ grave there. Unfortunately I didn’t spot it and there were one or two funeral parties coming and going at the time so I didn’t like to be wandering aimlessly too close to them. I’ll have to have another look some time soon when I’m in town.
 
Ian Moore Gone Little said:
I remember reading about him when the new headstone was put on his grave at Wilford Hill cemetery after a fundraising campaign. I think I later read somewhere vaguely whereabouts it is and tried to find it once when I stopped by my parents’ grave there. Unfortunately I didn’t spot it and there were one or two funeral parties coming and going at the time so I didn’t like to be wandering aimlessly too close to them. I’ll have to have another look some time soon when I’m in town.
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I seem to recall that there was a link to an article about the headstone on here when it was erected.
 
I'm Red Till Dead said:
I seem to recall that there was a link to an article about the headstone on here when it was erected.
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Yes, I think there was. I’ll try a quick search on his name.

Edit: Said quick search reveals that Valspoodle wrote this (in the Sadpies thread) a couple of years ago:

It's right by the main building in the middle of the cemetery. As you stand looking at the main portico at the front of the building go left around on the road. Just around the corner is a large tomb with a roof, TL's grave is in front of that tomb. It is all in black and the give-away is right in the middle of it is a football boot with a ball balanced on it.
 
I'm Red Till Dead said:
This might be of interest - http://johnhalley.uk/Grave - Tinsley Lindley.htm

And the BBC covered the story of the gravestone -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-24745291
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-25446903
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-26832039
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I’ve probably read one or more of the BBC pieces but the other one is new to me. Thanks for taking the trouble. Like you, I think it’s important that we spread knowledge about and preserve the memory of these great characters from Forest’s past.
 
I'm Red Till Dead said:

Sporting Post - Saturday 05 August 1944​


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Wheatley played for Forest's first team 48 times, but all but six were in the war time Leagues.

He was transferred to Southampton in 1949 where he would make 10 league appearances in two seasons, then 5 more for Grimsby in the 1951-2 season.
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That last sentence reminds me of my father telling me he escaped Dunkirk wading out into the water to a boat with his boots round his neck containing a bottle of perfume he has snaffled for my mother. Didn't say where the perfume had come from. Had no other kit but what he stood up in.
 
I mentioned in another thread that I have a couple of bound sets of the first two years of Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly and would go through looking for what little Forest content there was. There are a couple of full page pictures of players and a few other bits and bobs, which I shall share with you here, starting with this from our chairman in the October 1951 issue:

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