Nostalgia Thread

[Smoggy]

22 minutes ago, Wanderboy said:

Smoggy in Newcastle. Hehehe.

I ran it once it a Boro shirt  Was a bit vocal running through the South Shields residential streets towards the end  All good fun though.

Edited September 26, 2020 by Smoggy

[Edinburgh]

3 hours ago, Wanderboy said:

Smoggy in Newcastle. Hehehe.

Isn't it always like that there?

[Smoggy]

This is a fella from Middlesbrough that does drawings of the old Ayresome Park. It really captures what going to a night match was like. The old tin Holgate end roof peeping up, the terraced houses, the bottom of the floodlight pylon and the old turnstiles. 

Its been 25 years since Boro left and I miss the old place all the time, really do. Happiest memories of my life in that place.

Lining up for tickets

 

Underneath the floodlight pylon, the first ever game I attended was on this part of the terrace, just down to the right as a 6 year old.

Big game day, a packed Holgate-

 

[Smoggy]

Treat for Ed, who is prob sat in his Scotland top sinking a few whisky drams tonight, that Archie goal against the chokers.

 

 

[StringerBellend]

13 hours ago, Smoggy said:

Treat for Ed, who is prob sat in his Scotland top sinking a few whisky drams tonight, that Archie goal against the chokers.

 

 

Scott was better though 

 

 

 

 

[StringerBellend]

On 26/09/2020 at 12:30 PM, Smoggy said:

I ran it once it a Boro shirt  Was a bit vocal running through the South Shields residential streets towards the end  All good fun though.

Probably made you run faster 

[Midfielder]

enjoy

 

[Midfielder]

 

[Smoggy]

I love a few black a white photos of Middlesbrough, it captures the feel of the place perfectly and when I think back to the 80's as a kid it seemed black and white, I don't see it in colour. Some are hard to date, you think they must be like 1930, but then you look again and realise it might just be 1980 lol

[Smoggy]

The Dorman Long coke ovens, god this place used to belch out some acrid stuff, when the wind was in the wrong direction it would sting your eyes. The was a view I would see most days.

Edited March 1, 2021 by Smoggy

[Smoggy]

Wish I had taken more photos as a kid, spent time climbing around disused places like this and seen many knocked down that would have made amazing photos..ahh well.

[marron]

Does anyone remember this dude?

 

 

[Neverbloom]

honestly looking at some old pictures and videos of our first trip to gosford, first trip to newcastle, first derby, just so many amazing times i hope we can be like that again one day(i guess the magic of those early seasons can never be repeated)

[Smoggy]

Bugger, linky no worky lol
 

 

Edited April 25, 2021 by Smoggy

[Smoggy]

Anyone else remember this place

Reason I mention is because this month marks 20 years since first came to Sydney and this is the first place the wife took me for an eat. Closed not long after I think. It was down some steps and in a basement I recall and was pretty compact.

 

 

Edited October 1, 2021 by Smoggy

[marron]

yep on clarence or york or one of those streets over there I think.

I went there once or twice but I have an irrational hatred of the whole idea.  I once got kicked out of the Basement as a result... it had a similar kind of vibe, people sitting at tables or whatever. We went up the front to watch the band and was told we were getting in the dinner guests way. Holy **** did I let loose and they chucked us.

[Smoggy]

1 hour ago, marron said:

Holy **** did I let loose and they chucked us.

I see....

So tell me...did your anger issues start young?

[marron]

Haha. 

People who know me will tell you I am the most calm and unruffled person you could meet. My angry ant moments are few and far between and it takes a lot to happen. That was one though

[Smoggy]

Parker coats and punch ups, could only be in mid 80’s at Ayresome, just another Saturday afternoon like most of them at that time. If it wasn’t a derby game Boro fans would just fight amongst themselves.

 

 

 

Edited October 10, 2021 by Smoggy

[marron]

1 hour ago, Bones said:

Despite being on a Sunday, Hey Hey was an awesome trip down memory lane.

Did the show bike boy?

[StringerBellend]

14 hours ago, Smoggy said:

Parker coats and punch ups, could only be in mid 80’s at Ayresome, just another Saturday afternoon like most of them at that time. If it wasn’t a derby game Boro fans would just fight amongst themselves.

 

 

 

Reminds me of this

The guy on 19 seconds who runs across the front of screen in a parker with hands above his head. Is my favourite, I have on many a drunken occasion re-enacted this moment in a pub to the bemusement of other patrons.

 

[marron]

THe funny thing is that's just what the players used to do, that, before things all got a lot more contrived.

I wonder if security were still more lax and all that and pitch invasions were still more frequent the people clambering on the pitch would then do more modern goal celebrations.

[MartinTyler]

Must admit I thought that Parkers were more 60s/70s.....apart from trainspotters 

[StringerBellend]

20 minutes ago, MartinTyler said:

Must admit I thought that Parkers were more 60s/70s.....apart from trainspotters 

Parkas, were big at St Julies in 't 'elens when I was a kid in the late 70s early 80s

 

Look deep into the Parka

 

 

[StringerBellend]

31 minutes ago, marron said:

THe funny thing is that's just what the players used to do, that, before things all got a lot more contrived.

I wonder if security were still more lax and all that and pitch invasions were still more frequent the people clambering on the pitch would then do more modern goal celebrations.

I love that clip, the guy with glasses and the Parka apparently is still apparently a minor celebrity in Liverpool to this day

[Smoggy]

 

4 hours ago, StringerBellend said:

Reminds me of this

The guy on 19 seconds who runs across the front of screen in a parker with hands above his head. Is my favourite, I have on many a drunken occasion re-enacted this moment in a pub to the bemusement of other patrons.

 

But that’s not a true Parka though is it, it doesn’t have the hood with the fluffy bit around it. I never had a Parka me like. The coat of choice at Boro games in the 80’s was a parka or something we called a donkey jacket which were supplied to workers at ICI or British Steel and so had their logo on the back.

 

 

 

[MartinTyler]

1 minute ago, Smoggy said:

 

But that’s not a true Parka though is it, it doesn’t have the hood with the fluffy bit around it. I never had a Parka me like. The coat of choice at Boro games in the 80’s was a parka or something we called a donkey jacket which were supplied to workers at ICI or British Steel and so had their logo on the back.

 

 

 

Donkey jackets were country wide...being in a mining area many had NCB on them and others had the initials of the local council.

[Smoggy]

Just now, MartinTyler said:

Donkey jackets were country wide...being in a mining area many had NCB on them and others had the initials of the local council.

Yeah. And many at Boro games either just came off shift or going back on after. So would wear works jacket to the game.

[marron]

I wore a parka in the 80s but it was because it was cold in katoomba 

[StringerBellend]

1 hour ago, Smoggy said:

 

But that’s not a true Parka though is it, it doesn’t have the hood with the fluffy bit around it. I never had a Parka me like. The coat of choice at Boro games in the 80’s was a parka or something we called a donkey jacket which were supplied to workers at ICI or British Steel and so had their logo on the back.

 

 

 

I had the proper parka with the hood and the fluffy bit for school, zip them up so you looked out of a tube.. Boss la...