Memory Lane Old Photos of Southend United.

[LBBlue]

That team picture was taken away at Chester probably at start of 1966/7 season when we played there on 7th Sept. The stand in the background is the old main stand at Sealand Road with the open terrace in the background. By the time I went to Sealand Road in the 80's they had built a new main stand.
If you look when we played at Southport at the end of that season we had an emblem on the shirts. In the team photo there is no emblem.

Firmani and Slater had left by the time we played Southport away. I think the strip in the photo is a red change strip so Chester fits the bill.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Happy birthday indeed to a real boyhood hero of mine. It was a real pleasure to meet him in the Centre Circle Lounge a couple of weeks ago.

Who are the opponents in that bottom picture? Can't pick that kit at all.

As it was a great pleasure for me a few years ago.DC did look rather bemused when I thanked him "for giving me a lot of pleasure as a young man" though.:winking:

 

[rigsby]

As it was a great pleasure for me a few years ago.DC did look rather bemused when I thanked him "for giving me a lot of pleasure as a young man" though.:winking:

I was worried for a while that this was a thread about Barry Bennell

 

[Cricko]

I still see Malcolm Slater wandering about Leigh and often stop for a chat and bumped into Andy Smilie last year buying a zillion pints of milk in Iceland for his cafe down the Arches.

Will always miss Trevor Roberts, a lovely man and the reason I started following The Blues as a kid.

 

[LBBlue]

Always if I think of naming a team the first three names are - Roberts - Bentley - Birks,

Me too!

And the next three:
Slack, May, Beanland:

Followed by

Woodley, Smillie, Firmani, Smith and Baber .

John McKinven must have been injured. He only played 2 games between mid April and the end of December 66.

 

[McNasty]

I still see Malcoln Slater wandering about Leigh and often stop for a chat and bumped into Andy Smilie last year buying a zillion pints of milk in Iceland for his cafe down the Arches.

Will always miss Trevor Roberts, a lovely man and the reason I started following The Blues as a kid.

I spoke to Malcolm Slater in Westcliff a while ago and he asked me if I knew his weird stalker. I do now. :smile:

 

[Cricko]

I spoke to Malcolm Slater in Westcliff a while ago and he asked me if I knew his weird stalker. I do now. :smile:

He used to play for some of the local teams after he retired.... I remember a game with Hewlyn Athletic over on the old Leigh Marshes pitches during a Sunday league game..We won 8-1. I scored all 8 GET IN..and the write up in the Old Evening Echo.. Stated as a leader.

"Crackshot Crickson".... I am not sure that has been beaten to this day .....:moon:

 

[Chairman Trigg]

Still have the image of Trevor Roberts wearing the club blazer whilst teaching at Belfairs such a tragic loss at an early age.As for Andy S still cooking the Smillie special at the arches with Derek Woodleys wife helping out serving.
The footage of that game brought back some happy memories of me forcing my to buy some blue material and stiching the stripe on my white shorts so I could look like my heroes....no replica kits in those days from the club shop ,wonder when the first ones were produced

I still see Malcolm Slater wandering about Leigh and often stop for a chat and bumped into Andy Smilie last year buying a zillion pints of milk in Iceland for his cafe down the Arches.

Will always miss Trevor Roberts, a lovely man and the reason I started following The Blues as a kid.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I was worried for a while that this was a thread about Barry Bennell

Ha! That scumbag deserved everything he got yesterday.

 

[LCBB72]

Still have the image of Trevor Roberts wearing the club blazer whilst teaching at Belfairs such a tragic loss at an early age.As for Andy S still cooking the Smillie special at the arches with Derek Woodleys wife helping out serving.
The footage of that game brought back some happy memories of me forcing my to buy some blue material and stiching the stripe on my white shorts so I could look like my heroes....no replica kits in those days from the club shop ,wonder when the first ones were produced

When I was at Belfairs High School just before you broke up for Easter the masters used to play the school at football which would consist of the best players from 5th and 6th years . At Easter 1970 Trevor Roberts played for the masters and scored two goals in a 3-2 win one of which was a 35 yard shot into the top corner , RIP Trevor .

 

[McNasty]

He used to play for some of the local teams after he retired.... I remember a game with Hewlyn Athletic over on the old Leigh Marshes pitches during a Sunday league game..We won 8-1. I scored all 8 GET IN..and the write up in the Old Evening Echo.. Stated as a leader.

"Crackshot Crickson".... I am not sure that has been beaten to this day .....:moon:

You sure that the headline wasn't "Crackpot Crickson" :smile::smile::smile::smile::smile:

 

[Tommy2holes]

How long has the current club shop been there.

I remember the one before was essentially a shed

 

[Napster]

How long has the current club shop been there.

I remember the one before was essentially a shed

wasnt the one before in Vic Circus?

 

[Uncle Leo]

wasnt the one before in Vic Circus?

Yes - I bought the 1998/99 shirt in there.

I wish I could remember important and useful stuff quite as easily.

 

[Napster]

Yes - I bought the 1998/99 shirt in there.

I wish I could remember important and useful stuff quite as easily.

I bought a pint glass in there with the SUFC badge on.

 

[LBBlue]

Wasn't there a club shop by the traffic lights on the corner of Victoria Avenue and Priory Crescent in around 1976- where the bridal shop is. I vaguely recall some one telling me Terry Nichol lived in the flat above it.

 

[Mick]

That team picture was taken away at Chester probably at start of 1966/7 season when we played there on 7th Sept. The stand in the background is the old main stand at Sealand Road with the open terrace in the background. By the time I went to Sealand Road in the 80's they had built a new main stand.
If you look when we played at Southport at the end of that season we had an emblem on the shirts. In the team photo there is no emblem.

Firmani and Slater had left by the time we played Southport away. I think the strip in the photo is a red change strip so Chester fits the bill.

Correct on both counts. Well done "Up the Shrimpers". Yes, the new large main stand at Chester was opened in 1979.

The point gained in that match put us top of Division Four and we once again went top when we beat them (5-1) in the return match at Roots Hall less than 3 weeks later - surprisingly close together matches for September !

 

[McNasty]

wasnt the one before in Vic Circus?

Yes - I bought the 1998/99 shirt in there.

I wish I could remember important and useful stuff quite as easily.

I went in there and spoke to Vic Jobson on the day he made Peter Taylor manager.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Wasn't there a club shop by the traffic lights on the corner of Victoria Avenue and Priory Crescent in around 1976- where the bridal shop is. I vaguely recall some one telling me Terry Nichol lived in the flat above it.

Yes - I remember going in there with my parents in the hope of getting me a kit for my birthday when I was seven or eight, but they didn't sell anything as radical as that.

 

[LCBB72]

Yes - I remember going in there with my parents in the hope of getting me a kit for my birthday when I was seven or eight, but they didn't sell anything as radical as that.

If I remember right I had to go to the ground to get my boys kit .