I think by the time I was into it it was already Whoopee & Wow.

trigs - come on, be honest. You took it down there to impress the natives with this new-fangled technomojahology, didn't you.....

Down in deepest darkest Cornwall for the week and the place has a Whoopee! Annual from 1975

WJ spending the night in a leisure centre or a counter terrorism interrogation cell - enquiring minds wanna know.

Link (it’s FB, so don’t blame me if it doesn’t work…) [Link]

OI - in which case, the information given to me by the MHS was inaccurate - I shall feed that back to the person who told me, along with a photo of the stadium I’ve found showing the lack of roof in 1935…

tGG - My regards to Swin. Tell her 'keep rockin'.

odd - I was shivering me own timbers with Swin and The Angry Elf (both erstwhile of this parish). Oh, wait......

REPD - The Ford showroom area was an open plot in the late 40's (and presumably before), used to store large cable spools, LEB maybe? I was born & bred in that area and can remember those spools clearly, other stuff too, such as the horse trough in Gap Rd, a few yds up from the Strank lights, or the ammonia plant on the corner of Tennyson Rd (giant bottles of ammonia covered in wicker outside on the pavement). The giant nutcracker soldiers in Garfield Rd (outside a balloon factory?). The grassed over communal bomb shelters in Garfield Rec (gone now). Good area to grow up in, back then.

There was no roof on the West Bank in 1934 (a 1959 addition?) so the X photo was from the sixties. There was another than was from Britain From Above [Link]

A4E - thanks for the research :) Looking at that link, it does look like where the Ford showroom now is, was a lot of warehouses and/or stables

tGG - Where was thou on the 19th, huh, huh? Left I to raise the flag in this 'ere place on me ownsome, yer scurvy knave, blast ye.

REPD (and Trigg) - re your post of 20th Sept at 09:09:18, and Trigg’s link here [Link] I did a tiny bit of digging and had a reply from the Merton Historical Society - the answer was sewage treatment works for the two areas with circles, but not sure about the area that’s now the Ford showroom - also, I was told “we had a local history workshop on Friday, and one of the participants said immediately that the photo was from Britain from Above, 1934” - not sure if that’s helpful at all…?

Spit are you moving to IoW? Lucky bastard, good luck if so.

Oh and said sister works with a frequent PL attendee Fan, named Carl Mc?

Not me Spartan and Spit I was at my sisters wedding, Likeable Loon is a frequent stayer here on the Island and I have met about a half dozen or so who reside here.

Spit - it wasn't Alan IoW was it ? 😉

Just seen the red away kit for the first time - oh my! Sexy sexy sexy! So much nicer than the home kit where it looks like someone left the yellow manufacturer's packaging tape on it.

That Tooting forward looks like a version of Peter Crouch, freakishly tall

the first part of wot Led sed at 13.31 yesterday - the FFP rules were put in place to stop clubs going bat-crap crazy and going bust chasing glory. Yep - on board with that. on the other hand, if squilionnaires want to "buy" the league, I have no problem with that either. iN Premiershit times, the first one to do it was Jack Walker at Blackburn. After that you had ManUre (simply down to the financial fire-power of the income from their stadium). Then Chelscum came in with Abramovich's millions - and I absolutely LAUGHED my tits off hearing the ManUre fans complaining about that. Then someone else comes along. Then someone else else comes along. Get on with it. Or would you rather have the American system of drafts and franchising and no promotion or relegation in an attempt to keep the fans of the shitter teams engaged?

An oft-expressed opinion (particularly by me) but extremely eruditely and entertainingly presented [Link]

Oh we get about. During the Covid period a chap in the next village saw my posts on here and offered to get shopping for us.

Last Saturday lunchtime was sitting in the Chine inn shanklin admiring the view , and a fellow wimbledon fan walked past in his wimbledon t-shirt. .down towards the fisherman's cottage.

Good. A big move so better to be certain.

Still looking padds., one a possibility .